Industrial Revolution, WWI, Roaring Twenties Review

Industrial Revolution, WWI, Roaring Twenties Review

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• Which document contains President Woodrow Wilson’s call to create the League of Nations?

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• Fourteen Points

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• What was one reason that national Prohibition failed?

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• Many Americans did not support the law

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• Which set of events related to World War I is in the correct chronological order?

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• Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated WWI begins Lusitania sunk US declares war on Germany.

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• This cartoon from the 1920s shows the United States government’s attempt to deal with

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• Immigration

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• What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of WWI (1914)?

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• The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.

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• President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points was a plan to

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• Prevent future wars

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• During the early 1900s, large numbers of African Americans from the South found better job opportunities

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• In northern cities

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• What was one main reason for the rise of organized crime during the 1920s?

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• The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.

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• Germany had to accept blame for war in Europe• Germany had to pay war reparations to

European nations• Germany had to disarm and reduce its military

forces

Which document imposed the above punishments on Germany after WWI?

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– Treaty of Versailles

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• Before 1919, most of the states that had granted full voting rights to women were located in the

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• West

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• The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s influenced American society by

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• Increasing awareness of African American contributions to American culture.

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• Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was created by

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• Sales of new consumer goods

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• In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was mainly the result of the

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• Impact of urbanization

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• During the Progressive Era (1900-1920), muckrakers were best known for

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• Exposing harmful practices of business and government

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• The United States was drawn into WWI mainly because of

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• The unrestricted use of submarine warfare

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• President Woodrow Wilson wanted to form the League of Nations to

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• Prevent future wars

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• In 1892, The United States government opened Ellis Island primarily to

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• Process immigrants arriving from overseas

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• What was an immediate economic result of the use of mass-production techniques in American factories?

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• Reduced cost of goods

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• Which event led to the passage of laws that created safer working conditions?

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• Triangle shirtwaist Fire

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• Which source of information is a primary source on trench warfare during WWI?

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• A diary kept by a soldier fighting on the western front during WWI

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• Senate opposition to US membership in the League of Nations was based mainly on the

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• Belief that League decisions would involve the US in foreign conflicts

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• Which feature of the Harlem Renaissance best reflects the image of the Roaring Twenties?

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• Expression through jazz and dance

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• A feature that is unique to a free enterprise economic system is

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• Private ownership of the means of production

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• In the period from 1890 to 1910, most immigrants from eastern and southern Europe settled in large cities of the eastern United States primarily because

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• Factory jobs were available for unskilled workers

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• In 1914, fighting increased rapidly from a local conflict in Europe to a world war because

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• Powerful nations had opposing alliances

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• Most people purchase shares of stock in a corporation in order to

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• Share in corporate profits

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• Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie Smith made significant contributions to the Harlem Renaissance in the field of

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• Music

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• Imperialism was a cause of WWI mainly because it

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• Created conflicts between nations over colonies

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• A “return to normalcy” after World War I meant

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• Going back to life as it had been before the war

• Half of your test grade will be the benchmark questions we have

gone over in class!

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• What is the message from the cartoon on the left?

• Who does the man with the cane, in the cartoon represent?

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• 1) Children went to work to help their family survive

• 2) The government

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• What is the message of the cartoon?

• What can both of these cartoons tell the reader about child labor?

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• 1) Children were treated similar to slaves• 2) Children made up a significant part of the

workforce.

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• Find “US Recognition of Cuban Independence” – 1) What event occurred that caused the President

to finally take action against Spain?– 2) What was the US demanding from Spain?– 3) How was the US going to help Cuba? – 4) What is the best definition of abhorrent?

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• 1) Destruction of a battleship• 2) Give Cuba its freedom from Spain• 3) Use the US military to help keep them free• 4) Repulsive

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• Find Excerpt from “Enactments So Utterly Un-American” – 1) Based on the excerpt, what was the purpose of

the specified act?– 2) According to the author, why did the legislature

enact a law prohibiting Chinese immigration? – 3) Why does the author call the new law “utterly

un-American”?

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• 1) To prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers to the US for the next ten years and punish shipmasters who allowed their passage.

• 2) Out of response to constant complaints from other people living in California.

• 3) He does not think that the law shares the same ideals of liberty and equality outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

Question• 4) What is the purpose of pointing out that opponents to

Chinese immigration were the “low Irish in California”?• 5)Based on his tone of disgust and frustration about the

“un American” nature of the law, which other historical movement might the author consider to be un-American?

• 6) The act referred to in the above excerpt also included “Section six: exempt status for teachers, students, merchants and travelers” allowing people in these classes to enter the US with the proper documentation. What does this exemption imply about American values at the time of its enactment?

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• 1) To remind the reader that many of the opponents also immigrated to the US at one point in time.

• 2) Slavery• 3) education and economic activity motivated

legislation at the time.

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• Find Woodrow Wilson’s speech on the 14 points:– 1) According to Wilson, why did the US enter

WWI? – 2) Which phrase from Wilson’s speech best

supports the creation of the League of Nations?– 3) According to Cabot Lodge, what is the best way

for the US to ensure world peace?

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• 1) To secure life and freedom for all of the people in the world?

• 2) All the peoples of the word are in effect partners in this interest.

• 3) By focusing on solving its own problems first.

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• 1) Both the advertisement and the poem express the prevailing attitude in 1899 that…

• 2) both the advertisement and the poem are examples of…

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• 1) It was the responsibility of Americans and the British to “civilize” native peoples.

• 2) racism, the belief in the superiority of one race over another.

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• 1) What emotions was the artist appealing to when he put the symbols of Japan and the Nazi party on the shadowy hands on the poster?

• 2) What is the purpose of this propaganda poster?

• 3) How does the poster depict America’s enemies?

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• 1) Fear and urgency• 2) To convince citizens that buying war bonds

will help protect them from enemy forces• 3) As threats to innocent civilians

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• Find the Joseph Stalin and Roosevelt primary sources– 1) Why did President Roosevelt include the phrase

“premeditated invasion,” meaning it was planned in advance, to describe Japan’s attack?

– 2) What is Roosevelt’s purpose for including the first line of the excerpt?

– 3) According to Roosevelt, why should Congress declare war on Japan?

– 4) Select the answer choice that places the events in correct order.

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• 1) To convince citizens and Congress that the Japanese meant to start a war.

• 2) To ensure the American people that he has taken measures to protect the country.

• 3) Japan and the US are already in a state of war after the attack on Pearl Harbor

• 4) WWII begins in Europe, The Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor, FDR gives the above speech, Congress declares war.

Question • 1) What was the illegalization

of alcohol called? • 2) Looking at the cartoon, what

is the man on the right trying to eliminate?

• 3) According to the source, what must happen to totally get rid of liquor?

• 4) Why is the source stating the cartoon is “more true” than what people are hearing?

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• 1)Prohibition• 2) The prohibition movement• 3) Vote to make Prohibition the law• 4) Politicians are lying about the issue