APUSH Unit 8
*** Trench Warfare
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. , Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI.
All of the following statements reflect the African-American experience in the North during the Harlem Renaissance except
African Americans developed increasing political power.
***African Americans and the employment prospects in the 1920s
African Americans had less discrimination but hardly any jobs available
Which of the following groups entered the labor force in large numbers during the war?
African Americans, White Southerners , Mexicans and Women
Franklin Roosevelt considered the most important legislation of his Hundred Days to be the
Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act.
The International Workers of the World and the Socialist Party
Always opposed the war
In the Fourteen Points Woodrow Wilson proposed that territorial settlements be
Based on the principle of self-determination
World War I is called the first "total war" because
Combatants devoted virtually all of their military, social, and industrial resources to the war
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan did all of the following except
Continue to thrive only in the south
***Public Works Administrastion
Created jobs on government projects
***Tennessee Valley Authority
Developed the resources of the Tennessee Valley such as electrics
***Bonus Army
Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's forces in 1932
Americans were outraged by the "Zimmermann telegram" because it
Encouraged Mexico to side with Germany in case the United States entered the war
During World War I, the complicated alliances of the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliances were
Entente: Great Britain, France, Russia; Alliance: Austria -Hungary, Germany, Italy
The Red Scare
Exemplified postwar American fear of foreign ideas and influences
The popular political personality known as the radio priest was
Father Coughlin
The peace treaty negotiated by the Allies
Forced Germany to accept total responsibility for the war
The fall of the tsar in Russia in 1917
Gave President Wilson grounds to claim that the U.S. was fighting for democracy
Which of the following was not a factor in the growing U.S. movement toward war?
German-American support of the war
The nation that took responsibility for the war
Germany
Makeshift Towns built around the US as shelters for the homeless were known as
Hoovervilles
The organizer of the "Share the Wealth" societies was
Huey Long
*** Duke Ellington
Huge factor in the history of jazz music
Labor unions in the 1920s were NOT weakened by
Intensive government intervention in labor affairs
Which of the following is not true of the Scopes trial?
It indicated that support for fundamentalism was waning.
***Mexican Americans in the 1920s
Main source of immigrant labor
***The women's movement during the Great Depression
Offered women very little opportunity to advance their skills or women's suffrage.
*** Jane Addams
President of Women's Intentional League for Peace and Freedom, founded the hull house
***Social Security Administration
Provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilites
***Civilian Conservation Corps
Provided jobs for single males on conservation projects
The initial U.S. policy regarding the European war was to
Pursue a policy of neutrality
***Works Progress Administration
Quickly created as many jobs as possible
*** In 1924, the Johnson-Reed Act
Quota law, cut immigration to 2% of each nationality
The Committee on Public Information's main function was to
Raise the level of patriotism and support for the war
Which of the following was not included in Woodrow Wilson's vision of a settlement that would achieve peace without victory?
Reaffirmation of the Monroe Doctrine
The purpose of the War Labor Board was to
Resolve labor disputes
Ethnic communities responded to Americanization campaigns by
Strengthening their customs and traditions
When the United States entered World War I
The British were on the verge of defeat
The right of every worker to join a union was guaranteed in
The National Labor Relations Act
Woodrow Wilson's hopes for a negotiated settlement with Germany were dashed by
The Republican victories in the congressional elections
Marcus Garvey was
The founder of a black separatist organization
The bulk of U.S. war financing came from
The sale of bonds
All the following factors contributed to the outbreak of the war in Europe in 1914 except
The sinking of the Lusitania
*** The Palmer Raids
U.S. Marshalls raided the homes of suspected radicals
Woodrow Wilson envisioned an international parliament that would
Unite the world in the organized pursuit of peace, security, and justice
*** U.S. Railroad Administration
When a railroad tie up threatened the flow of supplies to Europe, the govn't took over the system, and under William G. McAdoo transformed the 400,000 miles of track owned by 3000 competing companies into an efficient national transportation system.
In the election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war"
Which of the following was NOT a part of the postwar (WWI) period in the US?
a decline in the number of Americans who owned stocks
Charles A. Lindbergh became a celebrity in the 20s when he
completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic
Under the New Deal, African Americans
continued to face discrimination and disfranchisement
Women with ambition generally sought work as all of the following except
department store clerks (other choices: nurses, librarians, social workers, teachers)
Which of the following was not a central tenet of American business leaders in the 1920s
desire for social and economic justice
The "lost generation"
disenchanted American intellectuals who fled to Europe
The repatriation policy
drove hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants out of the United States
Herbert Hoover's Response to the Great Depression was to
expand the government's role in managing the economy
Union membership declined in the 1920s because of all of the following except
extremely high union membership dues
***Eleanor Roosevelt
extremely popular and hard working first lady. She would go out to view how the actual new deal affected real americans; great public speaker
In the Kellogg-Briand Pact,
fifteen nations outlawed war and vowed to settle disputes peacefully
Economically, the 1920s was a period of
growth, prosperity, and unprecedented productivity.
All of the following could not be said of Warren G Harding's tenure as president except
he continued the worst repression of the post WWI red scare by jailing leftists
***What was the primary intent of the National Industrial Recovery Act and what problems did it encounter?
increase prices on industrial goods, encountered problems with appearance of new monopolies, hastily written business codes that reflected the interests of big business, no increase in production
Herbert Hoover's position on the question of relief was that
individual citizens were responsible for their own survival and welfare
In the 1920s
industrial workers did not see the results of gains in productivity in increased wages.
In 1920 the National American Woman Suffrage Association was transformed into the
league of woman voters
Calvin Coolidge
lowered taxes and decreased gov regulation of business
President Hoover's response to the Bonus Army
made him even more unpopular with the American public
The term "flapper" referred to
modern, single, women who smoked and wore short dresses.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation created in 1932
offered government loans to banks and corporations
In 1932, the so-called Bonus Army
petitioned Congress for early payment of their WWI veteran benefits
All of the following was part of the new consumer lifestyle of the 1920s except
poverty was eliminated from American society.
The Indian Reorganization Act did all of the following except
protect Native American religious freedom.
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930
raised US tariff rates, causing European nations to raise their rates and thus weaken international trade
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
restored tribal ownership of land and provided federal economic-development funds
The Dawes Plan
resulted in the reduction of Germany's war debt.
President Roosevelt's first order of business was to
save the nation's banking system
***Teapot Dome Scandal
scandal over federal land reservations under Harding's administration
***The Congress of Industrial Organization
started to organize thousands of unskilled and unorganized workers whom the AFL had mainly ignored
Buying on "margin" meant that
stocks could be purchased by paying a percent of the price and borrowing the rest
All of the following factors contributed to the postwar depression in U.S. agriculture except
substantial increase in acreage in production
The Roosevelt proposal of 1937 that aroused tremendous public resistance was
the plan to increase the size of the Supreme Court
***Popular novels celebrated
the severity of the depression
All of the following are reasons why the Great Depression occurred except
there was too much government spending for poor workers
The "fireside chats"
were President Roosevelt's radio addresses that directly engaged the American public