History Unit Test

Front 1

Why was it different to enforce the laws governing prohibition?

Back 1

It failed to budget enough money to enforce the law

Front 2

To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden nightclubs known as this?

Back 2

Speakeasies

Front 3

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Back 3

It provided foundation of African Americans intellectualism to whick African Americans writers, artists, and musicians contribute today

Front 4

John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade doing this.

Back 4

Evolution

Front 5

Fundamentalists believed that the Bible should be interpreted this way.

Back 5

Taken Literally

Front 6

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with__________, and convicted of___________. Both were also__________.

Back 6

Robbery, Murder. Italian immigrants and anarchists; both had evaded the draft of WW2.

Front 7

To expand it's membership in the 1920's, the KKK engaged in what activities?

Back 7

Destroying saloons, opposing unions

Front 8

The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from what countries?

Back 8

Italy, Japan, and England

Front 9

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from this group of people?

Back 9

Political radicals

Front 10

The first pratical peacetime use of airplanes was for...

Back 10

Delivering mail

Front 11

The first pratical peacetime use for airplanes was for this purpose.

Back 11

Delivering for mail.

Front 12

The main factor causing Urban sprawl in the 1920s was this.

Back 12

The automobile

Front 13

What were the causes of WW1?

Back 13

Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Alliance System

Front 14

Who were the Big Four of WW1?

Back 14

Italy, France, Great Britain, and the US

Front 15

Who rejected Wilson's "fourteen points" peace plan?

Back 15

The US Senate

Front 16

What reasons did senators give for opposing US membership in the League of Nations?

Back 16

It would drag the US into war

Front 17

What simulated the US imperialism?

Back 17

Foreign trade, cultural factors, European conflicts

Front 18

Which countries residents became citizens of the US in 1917?

Back 18

Puerto Ricans

Front 19

Who told the artist Frederic Remington, "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"?

Back 19

Williams Randolph Hearst

Front 20

In what conflicts were US military troops not involved in at the turn of the century?

Back 20

Boxer Rebellion

Front 21

This governed relations between the US and Cuba starting in 1901.

Back 21

The Platt Amendment

Front 22

The Roosevelt Corollary was added to what doctorine?

Back 22

Monroe Doctorine

Front 23

What was the purpose of the Foraker Act?

Back 23

To end military rule and set up civil government in Puerto Rico

Front 24

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed what industry?

Back 24

Meatpacking Industry

Front 25

What law that required truthful labels on all goods?

Back 25

Pure Food and Drug Act

Front 26

What best states the primary goal of prohibitionists ?

Back 26

To end the use of alcohol in society

Front 27

The "Great Migration" of 1910-1920 refers to the movement of_________.

Back 27

Thousands of Blacks to cities in the North.

Front 28

Except for Government Corruption, alcohol caused all of the problems of society, according to most fundamentalists.

Back 28

Government Corruption

Front 29

This allowed women to she'd old roles in the 1920s when it came to work.

Back 29

Equality in the business world, new managerial positions that were available, equal wages

Front 30

The_______fought for legislation to protect African American rights under the leadership of this group of people and was under the leadership of this man.

Back 30

NAACP, James Weldon Johnson

Front 31

Nativists who found fault with the Emergency Quota Acts of 1921 would have been most likely to say the following when it came to immigration restriction.

Back 31

It did not restrict immigration enough

Front 32

The policy that kept the US out of the war for three years was called this.

Back 32

Neutrality

Front 33

Because Militarism had been a major cause of the war, the framers of the Treaty of Versailles did this to Germany.

Back 33

Barred Germany from having an army

Front 34

The war might have involved only two Nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, if not this.

Back 34

The alliance system

Front 35

The most compelling reason for the US to enter WW1 was this.

Back 35

German submarine warfare

Front 36

The Espionage and Sedition Acts affected freedom of speech because they allowed the government to do what?

Back 36

Silence ideas that we're against WW1

Front 37

Why were labor leaders targeted by the Espionage and Sedition Acts?

Back 37

Encouraged workers to strike

Front 38

Gains made by American women during WW1 included this.

Back 38

Gained increased support for the right to vote.

Front 39

The Treaty of Versailles overlooked the importance of this key aspect.

Back 39

Treating all Nations justly including those that lost the war

Front 40

This country was not an imperialist power in the late 1800s.

Back 40

China

Front 41

These countries came under some form of US control as a result of the Spanish-American War.

Back 41

Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippines

Front 42

General John J. Pershing led a force of 15,000 soldiers in an attempt to capture this man.

Back 42

Poncho Villa

Front 43

Of the following statements, the one that best reflects an anti-imperialism is...

Back 43

"It is not necessary to own people to trade with them."

Front 44

The Boxer Rebellion was an attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to who?

Back 44

Remove foreign influence in China

Front 45

The US gained control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal by encouraging this.

Back 45

Panamanian Independence

Front 46

The Open Door Policy was designed as a way for the US to further this.

Back 46

Trade interests

Front 47

The rapid growth of industry in the US helped fuel Imperialism because of this aspect.

Back 47

The US was producing to many goods for it's own people to buy

Front 48

The seventeenth amendment called for the direct election of__________.

Back 48

Senators

Front 49

The recall allowed citizens to______.

Back 49

Remove public officials

Front 50

The referendum allowed citizens to_______.

Back 50

Introduce legislation

Front 51

Jacob Riis was a muckraker who________.

Back 51

Photographed poverty in New York.

Front 52

What effect did World War 1 have on suffrage movement?

Back 52

Delayed attention to the issue as attention turned to WW1

Front 53

What was the three-part strategy of suffrage?

Back 53

Pressure the courts, national amendment, convince state legislatures to support it

Front 54

This Progressive Party was headed by Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 campaign.

Back 54

Bull Moose Party

Front 55

The election of 1912 included all the following candidates.

Back 55

Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft

Front 56

The 16th Amendment did this.

Back 56

Legalized income tax

Front 57

Muckrakers were concerned with_________.

Back 57

Poverty, political reform, and alcoholism

Front 58

The initiative allows citizens to__________.

Back 58

Place a bill on the ballot

Front 59

This was a result of the Selective Service Act.

Back 59

Men were required to register for the draft.