APUSH Chapter 3

Question 1

Fourteen Points

Answer 1

Outlined Wilson’s vision for ending World War I in a way that would prevent it from reoccurring

Question 2

Committee on Public Information

Answer 2

Headed by George Creel, it essentially sold American on the war and the world on Wilsonian war aims

Question 3

Espionage Act

Answer 3

Reflected current fears about Germans and antiwar Americans, declared it a crime to obstruct military recruitment, to encourage mutiny, or to aid the enemy by spreading lies

Question 4

Schenck v. United States

Answer 4

Affirmed the Espionage Act and Sedition Act’s legality, arguing that freedom of speech could be revoked when it posed a “clear and present danger” to the nation

Question 5

War Industries Board

Answer 5

Set a precedent for the federal government to take a central role in economic planning in moments of crisis

Question 6

National War Labor Board

Answer 6

Chaired by Taft, headed off labor disputes that might hamper the war effort, failed to support a government guarantee of the right to organize into unions

Question 7

Industrial Workers of the World

Answer 7

Did not support the war, engineered some of the most damaging industrial sabotage

Question 8

19th Amendment

Answer 8

Gave all American women the right to vote

Question 9

Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act

Answer 9

Provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care, also expanded the responsibility of the federal government for family welfare

Question 10

Chateau Thierry

Answer 10

Newly arrived American troops were thrown into the breach, was the first significant engagement of American troops in a European war

Question 11

Meuse-Argonne offensive

Answer 11

Part of the last mighty Allied assault, one objective was to cut the German railroad lines feeding the western front

Question 12

Irreconcilables

Answer 12

Republican senators opposed to the League of Nations, led by Senators William Borah and Hiram Johnson

Question 13

League of Nations

Answer 13

Proposed by Wilson as an international peacekeeping organization, was included as a part of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 14

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 14

Formally ended World War I, required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies, the treaty was hated by many people including the Germans

Question 15

Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 15

Spawned a tiny Communist part in America

Question 16

Criminal syndicalism laws

Answer 16

Made unlawful the advocacy of violence to secure social change

Question 16

Red scare

Answer 16

Resulted in a nationwide crusade against suspected Communists

Question 17

American plan

Answer 17

Employers hailed their anti union campaign

Question 18

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 18

Spawned by postwar reaction, it spread rapidly and was highly racist and antiforeign, also wielded considerable political influence

Question 19

Bible Belt

Answer 19

The South where Protest Fundamentalism thrived and the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly

Question 20

Immigration Act of 1924

Answer 20

Quotas for foreigners were cut from 3% to 2%, the purpose was largely to freeze America’s existing racial composition

Question 21

18th Amendment

Answer 21

Launched prohibition and was implemented by the Volstead Act

Question 22

Volstead Act

Answer 22

Enforced prohibition through the 18th Amendment

Question 23

Racketeers

Answer 23

Invaded local labor unions as organizers and promoters (essentially were bootleggers and criminals)

Question 24

Fundamentalism

Answer 24

Emphasis on a literal reading of the Bible and clashed with modern science’s theory of evolution

Question 25

Scientific Management

Answer 25

Frederick W. Taylor was known as “The Father of Scientific Management” with the assembly line

Question 26

Fordism

Answer 26

Henry Ford applied the technique of the moving assembly line, which increased production and consumerism

Question 27

United Negro Improvement Association

Answer 27

Founded by Marcus Garvey and promoted the resettlement of American blacks in their “African homeland”

Question 28

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

Answer 28

The court reversed its ruling in Muller v. Oregon and declared that because women now had the vote, they were the legal equals of men and could no longer be protected by special legislation

Question 29

Nine-Power Treaty

Answer 29

Stated that signatories agreed to nail open the Open Door in China

Question 30

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 30

Defense wars were still permitted but quarreling nations would foreswear war

Question 31

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Law

Answer 31

Boosted from the average 27% to an average 38.5%, general rates were designed to equalize the cost of American and foreign production

Question 32

Teapot Dome scandal

Answer 32

Albert Fall (secretary of the interior) induced the secretary of the navy to transfer valuable properties to the Interior Department, and then Fall leased the lands to Harry F. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny, but not until receiving a bribe from both of them

Question 33

McNary-Haugen Bill

Answer 33

Sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing the government to buy surpluses and sell them abroad

Question 34

Dawes Plan

Answer 34

Rescheduled German reparations payments and opened the way for further American private loans to Germany