Chapter 5 Test Flashcards
Marcus Garvey advocated the idea that African Americans….
Have economic and cultural independence and form separate communities
MAP???
Poland or Switzerland or None
Circle Graph Compare
Many people who voted republican in 1920 chose to vote for a third party in 1924
In which international agreement was the US participation most likely a result of the red scare?
Policy of non ___
Which of the following was a great American war hero in WWI?
Alvin York
Who led the American delegation that ended WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
PICTURE What connection between alcohol and taxes is suggested by these anti prohibition?
Prohibition decreases tax revenues by ending the legal sale of alcoholic beverages.
In Europe WWI was a defensive war rather than an offensive war mainly do to the use of?
trenches
The Great Migration refers to the movement of what groups of americans?
African Americans
At which stage of the fighting did the United states enter WWI?
Not A; 3 years into the war
Do to the success of his mass production methods Henry Ford was able to give his workers
two days off from work each week.
What idea did Warren G. Harding campaign successfully on in the presidential election of 1920?
The rejection of Wilsonian idealism and return to “normalcy”
How did the use of machine guns change the nature of warfare in WWI?
I gave tactical advantage to defensive forces
Which factor caused the rapid escalation of WWI?
the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and alliances between European nations
Which was a “pull” factor for African Americans in the Great Migration?
Economic opportunities in prosperous cities and wartime factories. Also as more moved North, they themselves became “pull” factors for others.
How did WWI affect the US economy?
It encouraged the increased production of food and materials
Which opportunity did Dubose believe the war held for african americans?
to demonstrate the loyalty and patriotism of African Americans
What happened during the battle of arragon forest?
German forces lost to determined US forces against the odds
How did the 14 points address the policy of isolationism?
It rejected isolationism in favor of more open diplomacy
Which events prompted the red scare?
Communist revolts in Central and Eastern Europe and labor strikes across the United States
What was the purpose of the Dawes Plans
It arranged US loans to Germany, allowing Germany to pay reparation payments to Britain and France
Short answer: Why were certain american writers of the 1920s sometimes called the lost generation?
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
Short answer How did Jazz music create a bridge between the cultures of blacks and whites in the US?
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
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?
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.
