ww1 Roaring 20s
Ch 30
All of the following were factors contributing to the entrance of the United States into World War I in 1917 EXCEPT:
(E) the clamoring for war from munitions makers, bankers, and Wall Street financiers seeking to protect their loans and profits.
Which of the following did NOT represent one of Wilson's Fourteen Points upon which he based America's foreign policy in World War I?
(B) An international guarantee of freedom of religion
Which of the following best characterizes the U.S. War Department's approach to civil liberties during World War I?
(E) Severely damaged by the political pressures of loyalty and conformity
Which of the following best describes America's preparedness for entry into World War I?
(E) Poorly prepared militarily and industrially to leap into a global war
Which of the following provided the critical political momentum for women achieving the constitutional right to vote in the United States?
(A) The labor contributions and political support of working women for the war effort
Organized labor held all of the following grievances during and shortly after World War I EXCEPT:
(C) suppression of the American Federation of Labor
Which of the following resulted from the movement of tens of thousands of southern African Americans to the North during World War I?
(B) An outbreak of racial violence in the North
The United States used all of the following methods to support the war effort EXCEPT:
(C) establishing widespread government control of wages and prices
Which of the following was NOT true of the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(C) All conscientious objectors were required to serve in the U.S. armed forces
Why did the Germans gain an immense military advantage during the first months of fighting in 1918?
(C) The Bolsheviks took Russia out of the war, allowing German troops to go to the western front
The main contributions to the Allied victory in World War I included all of the following EXCEPT:
(A) battlefield victories
At the Paris Peace Conference, President Wilson sought all of the following EXCEPT:
(B) an immediate end to the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia
What was the primary argument of Senate opponents such as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge against the League of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles?
(C) The League of Nations stripped Congress of its constitutional war-declaring powers
What political goal were Republican isolationists able to achieve with the election in 1920 of Warren Harding?
(E) The death sentence for the League of Nations
Which traditionally American ideal did Wilson rely upon when he decided to tour the country to garner support for the League of Nations?
(B) Members of Congress are meant to represent the people; if Wilson could convince the people, Congress would have to follow
Americans rallied to support a previously divisive war in all of the following ways EXCEPT that:
(A) the Industrial Workers of the World supported the war
Ch 31
1. Responding to continuing upheavals in the postwar world order and to significant social changes that upended traditional American culture and values, most Americans in the 1920s did all of the following EXCEPT:
(C) struggle to achieve economic prosperity.
2. How did the business sector use the Red Scare to its advantage in the 1920s?
(B) It cooperated with federal and state governments to break the backs of fledgling unions.
3. Which of the following was most important in prompting Americans to support the Immigration Act of 1924?
(B) A nativist belief that northern Europeans were culturally superior to the waves of eastern and southern Europeans who had arrived in America over the last forty years.
4. Which of the following would a cultural pluralist such as Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, or Louis Brandeis support?
(A) An American melting pot cultural ideology that advocated eliminating ethnic differences
5. Which of the following represented a key obstacle to working-class solidarity and union organizing in the United States during this period?
(A) Employers' devious use of ethnic tensions and rivalries among workers to thwart union activities and working-class solidarity.
6. All of the following undermined the effective enforcement of prohibition laws against alcohol EXCEPT:
(E) overwhelming popular opposition to prohibition in the South and the West.
7. According to John Dewey, the primary goal of progressive education should be to:
(E) educate students for life through active, participatory learning methods.
8. Which of the following was NOT an outcome of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial?
(C) A complete legal vindication of a teacher's right to teach evolution in the public schools of Tennessee.
9. How did American businesses in the 1920s attempt to meet the challenge of developing enormous universal markets for their mass-produced goods?
(B) they nurtured the birth and development of consumer advertising.
10. What dark cloud hung over the economic prosperity enjoyed by Americans in the 1920s?
(A) An enormous amount of American consumer debt.
11. All of the following were an outgrowth of the automobile revolution EXCEPT:
(B) the increased dependence of women on men.
12. What did the 1920 census reveal about the lives of Americans?
(C) for the first time in the nation's history, more Americans lived in the cities than in the countryside.
13. What did many Americans point to in order to justify their new sexual frankness?
(D) The theories of Sigmund Freud.
14. Which socioeconomic group bore the heaviest tax burden in the 1920s due to the tax policies of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon?
(A) Middle income groups.
15. All of the following works of literature examined the values of 1920s America EXCEPT:
(D) The Clansman.
16. How did the cultural liberation of the 1920s extend to African Americans, especially in northern cities?
(E) White Americans patronized Harlem jazz clubs.