WWI

Question 1

Drafted men from ages 21-30 into military service.

Answer 1

Selective Service Act

Question 2

U.S merchant ships would travel in large groups with protection of U.S Destroyers and Cruisers to prevent attacks from German U-Boats

Answer 2

Convoy System

Question 3

the two methods to raise money for the war

Answer 3

Liberty Bonds and Revenue Act of 1918

Question 4

Taxes were placed on personal income, corporations and luxury goods.

Answer 4

Revenue Act of 1918

Question 5

A government agency, which forced factories such as Henry Ford´s automobile plant to begin producing war materials

Answer 5

War Industries Board 1917

Question 6

Former President William Howard Taft helped with handling disputes between workers and employers as the head of this board. (pressured businesses to give worker an 8-hour work dau, minimum wage and recognition of unions to prevent strikes)

Answer 6

National War Labor Board 1918

Question 7

An agency headed by george Creel which produced films and posters urging Americans to support the war in every way they could.

Answer 7

Committee on Public Information

Question 8

During WWI, many African Americans left the Jim Crow South and moved north to work in wartime factories

Answer 8

The Great Migration

Question 9

Targeted immigrant groups by policing their neighborhoods particularly those belonging to German Americans in order to locate possible German spies and to ensure American loyalty and support for the war.

Answer 9

American Protectionist League

Question 10

Attempted to supress anti-war sentiment in the U.S during WWI.

Answer 10

Espionage Act of 1917

Question 11

Made it a crime to say anything disloyal” about the government, Constitution, flag, or the war effort during WWI.

Answer 11

Sedition Act of 1918

Question 12

Soldiers lived, fought, and died in cold wet, and muddy trenches during most of the war

Answer 12

trench warfare

Question 13

The Russian Tsar was overthrown by communists. This revolution forced Russia to withdraw from WWI.

Answer 13

Russian Revolution 1917

Question 14

principles the causes of WWI and to prevent another world war from emerging

Answer 14

Freedom of the Seas, Reduction of Arms, Open Treaty Negotiations, Self determination of Peoples, League of Nations

Question 15

A proposed alliance promoting international cooperation and peace

Answer 15

League of Nations

Question 16

called on each member nation to be prepared to protect other member nations around the world

Answer 16

Article X

Question 17

Forced the German nation to accept complete responsibilty for initiating WWI

Answer 17

War Guilt Clause

Question 18

A republican from MA opposed the League of NAtions because it threatened the U.S foreign policy of staying out of foreign entanglements and forming permanent alliances.

Answer 18

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 19

Presidents of the 1920s were all conservative Republicans that supported….

Answer 19

Pro Business policies (Laissez Faire)

Question 20

helped fuel xenophobia and resulted in immigration restrictions between 1921 and 1924

Answer 20

the red scare

Question 21

established a quota system that limited European immigration to only 357,000 people per year

Answer 21

Emergency Immigration Act (1921)

Question 22

A system that set limits on how many immigrants from various countries nation will allow into the country

Answer 22

Quota system

Question 23

It reduced the number of European immigrants to 150,000 allowed into the U.S each year and began using the 1800 census data

Answer 23

National Origins Act (1924)

Question 24

These were places where alcohol was sold and consumed illegally during prohibition

Answer 24

Speakeasies

Question 25

were people who smuggled alcohol into the U.S during prohibition.

Answer 25

Bootleggers

Question 26

causes of WWI

Answer 26

militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism

Question 27

when a country uses their military to intimidate other nations

Answer 27

militarism

Question 28

when a country exerts its social,political, and economic power over a weaker territory or nation

Answer 28

imperialism

Question 29

the idea that national interests should be placed above global interests

Answer 29

nationalism

Question 30

the germans sank a british passenger ship in the atlantic killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans

Answer 30

Lusitania