SoSci Resource Flashcards

The 'Spanish flu' originated in which country?

The United States

Compared to American deaths in World War I, how many Americans were killed by influenza?

Fourteen times as many

Which individual accompanied President Woodrow Wilson on his trip to the Paris Peace Conference?

The First Lady

Which economist declared Woodrow Wilson to be a powerful 'philosopher'?

John Maynard Keynes

One of Woodrow Wilson’s campaign slogans in the 1916 presidential election was which of the following?

He Kept Us Out Of War

Which nation owned the ocean liner Lusitania?

Britain

A popular nickname for American soldiers during World War I was which of the following?

Doughboys

Who commanded the American Expeditionary Force during World War I?

John Pershing

Woodrow Wilson MOST directly supported which philosophy?

Internationalism

Which clause was NOT part of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points?

Military limitations

Why were Wilson’s ideas popular among non-Europeans?

He advocated ending colonial rule

The French and British diplomats at the Paris Peace Conference PRIMARILY saw Wilson as a(n)…

Idealist

What was Germany NOT compelled to do under the Treaty of Versailles?

Divide into multiple occupied zones

What disorder affected Wilson’s speech after his return from the Paris Peace Conference?

Aphasia

Which country had NOT ratified the Treaty of Versailles by July 1919?

The United States

What portion of the Senate needed to approve the Treaty of Versailles to ratify it?

Two-thirds

Henry Cabot Lodge was the chairman of which Senate committee?

Foreign Relations Committee

Which United States president was Lodge’s close friend?

Theodore Roosevelt

The term 'Reservationists' describes senators who…

Proposed several amendments to the League of Nations Charter

Which article did Lodge criticize MOST?

Article X

Which senator was an 'Irreconcilable'?

William E. Borah

How many amendments to the Treaty of Versailles did Lodge propose?

Forty-two

Wilson submitted the final version of the Treaty of Versailles in which year?

1919

How did Wilson respond to opposition from Republican leaders?

He set out to plead his case directly to the American population

What was the name of Wilson’s private railcar?

The Mayflower

Wilson’s final public speech took place in which location?

Pueblo, Colorado

What health issue did Wilson suffer on October 2?

Stroke

Who took charge of government affairs after Wilson’s health deteriorated?

Edith Wilson

Which Article of the Constitution briefly mentions the potential for presidential unavailability?

Article II

Which Amendment outlines a procedure for presidential disability?

Twenty-Fifth

During labor strife in 1919, where was Wilson when this occurred?

France

The term 'Wobblies' refers to which union?

International Workers of the World

Which leader for the American Federation of Labor during the First World War?

Samuel Gompers

Two conditions that characterized the economy immediately after World War I?

High inflation and rising unemployment

What did Calvin Coolidge do to end the Boston police strike?

He fired everyone involved with the strike and replaced them with new officers

The final major labor action of 1919 involved 400,000 coal miners striking in all of these states EXCEPT which one?

New York

Which revolution instigated the Bolshevik Revolution?

Bolshevik Revolution

Ole Hanson was the mayor of which city?

Seattle

Which holiday did left-wing parades in 1919 celebrate?

May Day

In 1924, the General Intelligence Division was renamed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Who was the first person to lead the General Intelligence Division?

J. Edgar Hoover

Which unions' New York City headquarters were raided in November 1919?

Union of Russian Workers

Which statement about the 1919 domestic terrorist attacks is NOT true?

As the head of the General Intelligence Agency, J. Edgar Hoover was the target of multiple bomb attacks.

What happened to Emma Goldman after hasty hearings at Ellis Island in December 1919?

Loaded on a steamer and immediately deported to Soviet Russia

Which First Amendment clause was involved in three 1919 Supreme Court cases?

Freedom of speech

In which political party was Charles Schenck a leader?

Socialist Party

According to the Supreme Court, how did Charles Schenck violate the Sedition Act?

Distributing a leaflet denouncing the draft

Which judge wrote the decision for Schenck v. United States?

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Eugene Debs delivered his anti-war speech in the town of?

Canton, Ohio

In which year did Eugene Debs run for president?

1920

In which city was Jacob Abrams prosecuted for distributing leaflets?

New York City

Jacob Abrams’s leaflets called for which action?

A general strike to protest American intervention in Russia

In which language did Jacob Abrams print his leaflets?

Yiddish

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with the crime of?

Murdering a security guard during an armed robbery

In which state were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sentenced to death?

Massachusetts

From 1915 to 1920, about how many African Americans moved from the South to the North and West?

Over a million

Which city’s African American population grew by about six times between 1910 and 1920?

Detroit

Between 1910 and 1920, all of the following cities saw increases in their African American populations EXCEPT which city?

Milwaukee

Harlem was nicknamed what during the Great Migration?

Black Mecca

The proliferation of African American art, literature, and music in the 1920s was collectively known as what?

Harlem Renaissance

Where was jazz style created?

New Orleans

Chicago was the terminus of which railroad?

Illinois Central Railroad

What was the largest African-American daily newspaper during the 1920s?

The Chicago Defender

What hit jazz song did King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band create?

Dipper Mouth Blues

Which 1920s dance involved four hundred steps?

Charleston

Which pianist helped establish Kansas City’s “swing” style?

Count Basie

In which musical did Josephine Baker debut?

Shuffle Along

Which technology, introduced in 1925, improved the quality of jazz recordings?

Electrical recording

Why MOST directly did many American colleges and dance halls ban jazz music?

They blamed it for corrupting the morals of young people.

Which city did NOT have a vibrant jazz scene during the 1920s?

Moscow

What term did James Weldon Johnson coin to describe the increase in racial violence during 1919?

Red Summer

What was the initial cause of the Elaine Massacre?

African-American cotton farmers were protesting the sharecropping system.

About how many people died in the northern city race riots in 1919?

250

In which city was Eugene Williams killed?

Chicago

In July 1919, federal troops were sent to Washington, D.C. to respond to riots instigated by the

Home Defense League

How many African-American men served in the United States military during World War I?

400,000

Which organization did Marcus Garvey found?

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Where was Marcus Garvey born?

St. Ann, Jamaica

As a teenager, Marcus Garvey worked as an apprentice to a(n)

printer

Which author had the GREATEST influence on Marcus Garvey?

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey rose to prominence because of his

forceful critiques of racial violence

Which Marcus Garvey slogan reflected the influence of Irish and Indian activists?

“Africa for the Africans”

Which UNIA newspaper had a subscription of 50,000 in 1920?

The Negro World

What was the name of the UNIA’s headquarters?

Liberty Hall

Which organization was the female auxiliary of the UNIA?

Black Cross Nurses

Which organization was the UNIA’s rival?

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Why did W. E. B. Du Bois dislike Marcus Garvey?

He believed that Garvey was driven by self-interest and financial gain.

Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend university?

Harvard

The Justice Department built a felony mail fraud case against Marcus Garvey for his promotion of the

Black Star Line

Which leader in the Black Nationalist movement had parents that were part of the UNIA?

Malcolm X

What activity involving alcoholic beverages did the Volstead Act NOT ban?

consumption

Which amendment to the United States Constitution legalized Prohibition?

Eighteenth Amendment

In response to the Volstead Act, many American bars

held mock funerals

Which activist organization was a longtime supporter of Prohibition?

the WCTU

Why were some Southern and Western states strongholds of the temperance movement?

Their populations were majority- Protestant.

Which major historical event increased American support for Prohibition?

World War I

Andrew Volstead was a United States Senator from

Minnesota

What was President Woodrow Wilson’s rationale for vetoing the National Prohibition Act?

Wartime prohibition should end with the war.

Congress overruled Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the Volstead Act with the support of “dry”

Democrats

Prohibition in the United States would be BEST described as

unenforceable