WWI and the 1920s

During the first two years of World War I, the United States:
1. became an arsenal for the Allies.
2. maintained a genuinely neutral stance.
3. remained politically and economically isolated from European affairs.
4. became sympathetic toward the Central Powers because the English blockade of Germany.
Woodrow Wilson's reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania was to:
1. ask congress for a declaration of war.
2. break diplomatic relations with Germany.
3. impose a complete embargo on exports to both sides.
4. demand assurances from Germany that such outrages we not recur.
In the presidential election of 1916, the Democrats emphasized:
1. taking a firm stand against both German and British violations of American neutral rights.
2. staying out of the European war.
3. taking a belligerant stand against German violations American neutral rights.
4. domestic issues only and ignored the European war.
In the Senate debate on ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, the so-called irreconcilables were those who were adamantly opposed to:
1. isolationism.
2. United States membership in the League.
3. interjecting partisan politics into foreign relations.
4. any modification of the treaty as it was originally drafted.
The Palmer Raids may be cited as evidence of the depth of feeling in America in the aftermath of World War I against:
1. Communism
2. internationalism.
3. Italian-Americans.
4. German-Americans.
As used in reference to the period of the Great War, the expression "Great Migration" means:
1. Easterners moving west.
2. blacks moving north.
3. rural dwellers moving to the city.
4. refugees fleeing war-torn Europe for America.
In the first few years after World War I, relations between blacks and whites in America were characterized by:
1. grudging acceptance due to common economic distress.
2. great cordiality due to the blacks' gallant service in the war.
3. extreme resentment, race riots, and numerous lynchings.
4. improvement due to new legal safeguards for blacks enacted during the progressive period.
The immediate cause of the American declaration of war against Germany in April 1917 was the:
1. sinking of the Sussex.
2. Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
3. reports of German atrocities against civilians.
4. German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare.
One of the main purposes of the Creel Committee during World War I was to:
1. combat inflation.
2. discover and expose disloyal elements in America.
3. disseminate propaganda and proselytize on behalf of the war.
4. engage in espionage.
The Harlem Renaissance referred to:
1. a movement in black literature.
2. a movement in New York to improve the conditions of recent immigrants to the United states.
3. the spread of jazz to the cities of the North.
4. a back-to-Africa movement among black intellectuals who had completely repudiated American values.
Three of the following statements accurately describe the "noble experiment" of prohibition. Which is the exception?
1. Enforcement was ludicrously ineffective.
2. It stimulated the growth of organized crime.
3. The Great Depression hindered efforts to repeal Prohibition.
4. Begun as a middle-class progressive reform, prohibition was later supported largely by rural Protestant
  Americans.
Compared with the effect of the immigration act of 1921, the effect of the National Origins Act of 1924 was to:
1. discriminate heavily against immigrants from southern
  and eastern Europe.
2. liberalize the quotas somewhat.
3. establish small quotas for Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans.
4. discriminate heavily against immigrants from
  northwestern Europe.
A new feature of American business developed in the 1921 known as welfare capitalism. The essence of welfare capitalism was:
1. company-provided benefits for workers.
2. government-provided unemployment benefits for worker
3. company-provided bonuses for management.
4. government-provided financial aid for troubled industries.
John T. scopes was accused of the crime of:
1. organizing a labor conspiracy in restraint of trade.
2. teaching communism in the public schools of Tennessee.
3. teaching Christianity in the public schools of Tennessee.
4. teaching Darwinian evolution in the public schools of Tennessee.
Which political party dominated the national government during the so-called New Era, or Age of "Normalcy"?
1. The Republicans controlled both Congress and the presidency.
2. The Republicans controlled Congress, and the Democrats controlled the presidency.
3. The Democrats controlled Congress, and the Republicans controlled the presidency.
4. The Democrats controlled both Congress and the presidency.
The so-called Ohio Gang was most closely associated with the administration of:
1. Woodrow Wilson.
2. Calvin Coolidge.
3. Herbert Hoover.
4. Warren G. Harding.
Both the Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills scandals in the 1920s involved:
1. embezzlement of Veterans Bureau funds.
2. tainted seafood being shipped in interstate commerce in
  violation of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
3. corrupt leasing of government oil reserves to private business.
4. corruption in the Justice Department in which cases were "fixed" in return for bribes paid to government
  officials.
Three of the following were "firsts" in the 1920s. Which is the exception?
1. the first network of radio broadcasting stations
2. the first "talkie" movie
3. the first chain of newspapers
4. the first commercial radio broadcasting station
Margaret Sanger was significant to American social and cultural life in the 1920s as a promoter of:
1. temperance.
2. progressive education.
3. the "debunkers."
4. the birth-control movement.
Three of the following were manifestations of changing cultural values among Americans in the 1920s. Which is the exception?
1. There was an increase in secularism.
2. The national divorce rate climbed dramatically.
3. Many women enjoyed a less inhibited life style.
4. Birth-control devices were legalized in all states, and abortion was legalized in some states.
5. acceptance of modern American society as the best of all possible worlds.

WWI and the 1920s

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