benchmark 5

Question 1

Event made US join WWI

Answer 1

Zimmerman telegram interception

Question 2

Goal of Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 2

Lasting peace

Question 3

US sought to maintain _ at WWI start

Answer 3

Neutrality

Question 4

Eugene Debs

Answer 4

Socialist leader; jailed for speaking out against WWI

Question 5

Espionage Act

Answer 5

penalized spying

Question 6

League of Nations

Answer 6

didn’t join; part of 14 points; created to

Question 7

Demographic shift during WWI

Answer 7

Great Migration

Question 8

Impact of British blockades on US trade

Answer 8

Trade through Britain

Question 9

Three components of Wilson’s Fourteen Points

Answer 9

Open diplomacy, Freedom of seas, League of Nations

Question 10

US sold _ to finance WWI

Answer 10

Liberty Bonds

Question 11

Result of Lusitania sinking

Answer 11

US outrage

Question 12

Wilson admin’s role in war economy

Answer 12

Wartime boards

Question 13

‘Disenfranchised’ in context of Eugene Debs

Answer 13

Excluded from voting

Question 14

Vocal critic of League of Nations

Answer 14

Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 15

US involvement in WWI changed power of _

Answer 15

Federal government

Question 16

US foreign policy evolution during WWI

Answer 16

Neutrality to engagement

Question 17

Reason for Great Migration during WWI

Answer 17

Northern jobs

Question 18

Outcome of Wilson’s League of Nations efforts

Answer 18

Senate rejected

Question 19

Significance of Zimmerman Telegram

Answer 19

US entry into WWI

Question 20

Espionage Act passed in _

Answer 20

17-Jun

Question 21

Chicago’s Black population growth in 1910s-1920s

Answer 21

1.48

Question 22

Impact of WWI on American society

Answer 22

Federal power

Question 23

Public sentiment towards League of Nations

Answer 23

Opposition

Question 24

Impact of WWI on US national identity

Answer 24

National identity

Question 25

Red Scare

Answer 25

Red Scare

Question 26

Cause of Palmer Raids

Answer 26

Palmer Raids

Question 27

Ideology from socialism influencing Red Scare

Answer 27

Communism

Question 28

Effects of Eighteenth Amendment

Answer 28

Prohibition

Question 29

Nineteenth Amendment accomplishment

Answer 29

Women's suffrage

Question 30

Significance of Ford's Model T

Answer 30

Mass-produced car

Question 31

Mass media influence on US culture post-WWI

Answer 31

National identity

Question 32

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 32

Harlem Renaissance

Question 33

Advertising's role in 1920s consumerism

Answer 33

Consumerism

Question 34

Consequences of Twenty-First Amendment

Answer 34

Repealed Prohibition

Question 35

1920s referred to as _ Age

Answer 35

Jazz

Question 36

Social impacts of automobile in 1920s

Answer 36

Mobility, suburbanization

Question 37

Suffrage movement tactics (True/False)

Answer 37

True

Question 38

Literature of modern era

Answer 38

Alienation, disillusionment

Question 39

Impact of consumerism on US lifestyles

Answer 39

Increased spending

Question 40

Great Depression

Answer 40

Economic downturn

Question 41

Event leading to Hoover-Roosevelt leadership change

Answer 41

Great Depression

Question 42

Roosevelt's plan for Great Depression

Answer 42

New Deal

Question 43

Unemployment rate when Roosevelt took office

Answer 43

0.25

Question 44

FDR's first 100 days war on _

Answer 44

Great Depression

Question 45

Purpose of FERA

Answer 45

Federal relief

Question 46

New Deal agency for construction projects

Answer 46

PWA

Question 47

CCC's role

Answer 47

Land projects

Question 48

Purpose of TVA

Answer 48

Dams, power plants

Question 49

FDIC's role

Answer 49

Bank insurance

Question 50

Purpose of AAA

Answer 50

Crop prices

Question 51

SEC's role

Answer 51

Stock Market regulation

Question 52

New Deal departure from laissez-faire (True/False)

Answer 52

True

Question 53

Short-term outcome of New Deal programs

Answer 53

Jobs

Question 54

Social Security Act of 1935 provisions

Answer 54

Pensions, insurance

Question 55

Critic of New Deal proposing 'Share Our Wealth'

Answer 55

Huey Long

Question 56

Supreme Court declared NIRA and AAA _

Answer 56

Unconstitutional

Question 57

Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan

Answer 57

Court-packing

Question 58

Eleanor Roosevelt's role as First Lady

Answer 58

Humanitarian causes

Question 59

Eleanor Roosevelt's UN nickname

Answer 59

First Lady of the World

Question 60

Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on women in government

Answer 60

Appointed women

Question 61

Eleanor Roosevelt's change to First Lady role

Answer 61

Active advocates

Question 62

Controversy of Social Security Act

Answer 62

Excluded groups

Question 63

Change in US approach to Great Depression post-1932 election

Answer 63

New Deal