Chapter 5 Test

Question 1

Marcus Garvey advocated the idea that African Americans….

Answer 1

Have economic and cultural independence and form separate communities

Question 2

MAP???

Answer 2

Poland or Switzerland or None

Question 3

Circle Graph Compare

Answer 3

Many people who voted republican in 1920 chose to vote for a third party in 1924

Question 4

In which international agreement was the US participation most likely a result of the red scare?

Answer 4

Policy of non ___

Question 5

Which of the following was a great American war hero in WWI?

Answer 5

Alvin York

Question 6

Who led the American delegation that ended WWI?

Answer 6

Woodrow Wilson

Question 7

PICTURE What connection between alcohol and taxes is suggested by these anti prohibition?

Answer 7

Prohibition decreases tax revenues by ending the legal sale of alcoholic beverages.

Question 8

In Europe WWI was a defensive war rather than an offensive war mainly do to the use of?

Answer 8

trenches

Question 9

The Great Migration refers to the movement of what groups of americans?

Answer 9

African Americans

Question 10

At which stage of the fighting did the United states enter WWI?

Answer 10

Not A; 3 years into the war

Question 11

Do to the success of his mass production methods Henry Ford was able to give his workers

Answer 11

two days off from work each week.

Question 12

What idea did Warren G. Harding campaign successfully on in the presidential election of 1920?

Answer 12

The rejection of Wilsonian idealism and return to “normalcy”

Question 13

How did the use of machine guns change the nature of warfare in WWI?

Answer 13

I gave tactical advantage to defensive forces

Question 14

Which factor caused the rapid escalation of WWI?

Answer 14

the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and alliances between European nations

Question 15

Which was a “pull” factor for African Americans in the Great Migration?

Answer 15

Economic opportunities in prosperous cities and wartime factories. Also as more moved North, they themselves became “pull” factors for others.

Question 16

How did WWI affect the US economy?

Answer 16

It encouraged the increased production of food and materials

Question 17

Which opportunity did Dubose believe the war held for african americans?

Answer 17

to demonstrate the loyalty and patriotism of African Americans

Question 18

What happened during the battle of arragon forest?

Answer 18

German forces lost to determined US forces against the odds

Question 19

How did the 14 points address the policy of isolationism?

Answer 19

It rejected isolationism in favor of more open diplomacy

Question 20

Which events prompted the red scare?

Answer 20

Communist revolts in Central and Eastern Europe and labor strikes across the United States

Question 21

What was the purpose of the Dawes Plans

Answer 21

It arranged US loans to Germany, allowing Germany to pay reparation payments to Britain and France

Question 22

Short answer: Why were certain american writers of the 1920s sometimes called the lost generation?

Answer 22

They no longer had faith in the cultural guidepost of the Victorian Era. But many were inspired by their “lost” condition to search for new truths and new ways to expose those truths. Never in American History had one decade seen the emergence of so many great literary talents

Question 23

Short answer How did Jazz music create a bridge between the cultures of blacks and whites in the US?

Answer 23

Jazz is a musical form based on improvisation. Jazz musicians creatively combined different forms of music, including African American blues and ragtime, and European based on popular music. Jazz quickly bridged races.Trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, became the first white musician to contribute to the styles and popularity of jazz. Jazz sounds influenced such white songwriters and composers as, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin, whose jazz inspired orchestral work Rhapsody in Blue premiered in 1924. The title of a song by African American bandleader Duke Ellington

Question 24

Short answer: What role did the diversity of the american population in Woodrow Wilson’s decision to remain neutral in the first years of WWI?

Answer 24

Wilson wanted America to be”impartial in thought as well as action.” In a “melting pot” nation that tried to make Americans of people from diverse origins, he didn’t want to see the war turn Americans against each other. He wanted America to maintain what they viewed as American isolation from European disputes.

Question 25

Short answer: What policy did the US government use to increase the size of the military after the US entered WWI and why did some americans object?

Answer 25

The United States used the draft to increase our military number. Many Americans believed it was an illegal intrusion of the Federal government into their private lives. Some refused to cooperate with the Selective Service. Many were court-martialed and imprisoned