Industrial Revolution, WWI, Roaring Twenties Review

1. Industrial Revolution, WWI, Roaring Twenties Review

2. Question • Which document contains President Woodrow Wilson’s call to create the League of Nations?

3. Answer • Fourteen Points

4. Question • What was one reason that national Prohibition failed?

5. Answer • Many Americans did not support the law

6. Question • Which set of events related to World War I is in the correct chronological order?

7. Answer • Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated WWI begins  Lusitania sunk  US declares war on Germany.

8. Question • This cartoon from the 1920s shows the United States government’s attempt to deal with

9. Answer • Immigration

10. Question • What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of WWI (1914)?

11. Answer • The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.

12. Question • President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points was a plan to

13. Answer • Prevent future wars

14. Question • During the early 1900s, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities

15. Answer • In northern cities

16. Question • What was one main reason for the rise of organized crime during the 1920s?

17. Answer • The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.

18. Question • Germany had to accept blame for war in Europe • Germany had to pay war reparations to European nations • Germany had to disarm and reduce its military forces Which document imposed the above punishments on Germany after WWI?

19. Answer • Treaty of Versailles

20. Question • Before 1919, most of the states that had granted full voting rights to women were located in the

21. Answer • West

22. Question • The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s influenced American society by

23. Answer • Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture.

24. Question • Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was created by

25. Answer • Sales of new consumer goods

26. Question • In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the

27. Answer • Impact of urbanization

28. Question • During the Progressive Era (1900-1920), muckrakers were best known for

29. Answer • Exposing harmful practices of business and government

30. Question • The United States was drawn into WWI mainly because of

31. Answer • The unrestricted use of submarine warfare

32. Question • President Woodrow Wilson wanted to form the League of Nations to

33. Answer • Prevent future wars

34. Question • In 1892, The United States government opened Ellis Island primarily to

35. Answer • Process immigrants arriving from overseas

36. Question • What was an immediate economic result of the use of mass-production techniques in American factories?

37. Answer • Reduced cost of goods

38. Question • Which event led to the passage of laws that created safer working conditions?

39. Answer • Triangle shirtwaist Fire

40. Question • Which source of information is a primary source on trench warfare during WWI?

41. Answer • A diary kept by a soldier fighting on the western front during WWI

42. Question • Senate opposition to US membership in the League of Nations was based mainly on the

43. Answer • Belief that League decisions would involve the US in foreign conflicts

44. Question • Which feature of the Harlem Renaissance best reflects the image of the Roaring Twenties?

45. Answer • Expression through jazz and dance

46. Question • A feature that is unique to a free enterprise economic system is

47. Answer • Private ownership of the means of production

48. Question • In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because

49. Answer • Factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

50. Question • In 1914, fighting increased rapidly from a local conflict in Europe to a world war because