WW I - 1920

During World War I, many African Americans living in the South moved to northern cities primarily because

• more workers were needed in industry

• prejudice had been eliminated in the North

• affirmative action programs provided better training opportunities

• the cost of living in the cities was lower

The Senate's opposition to the U.S. membership in the League of Nations was based mainly on the

• cost of membership dues

• failure to give the U.S. veto power

• fear of being drawn into future wars

• a rejection of colonialism

Following WW I, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles primarily because the treaty

• failed to include most of President Wilson's Fourteen Points

• did not punish German for starting the war

• contained provisions that might lead the U.S. into foreign conflicts

• made no provision for reduction of military weapons

W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington most strongly disagreed over which issue?

• the constitutionality of the Sherman Antitrust Act

• the construction of the Panama Canal

• methods to achieve racial equality

• support for the Allies in World War I

The Great Migration during World War I refers to the movement of

• factory workers from the Northeast to the Sun Belt

• communists deported to Russia as undesirables

• African Americans to northern cities to find work

• refugees fleeing from eastern Europe to the U.S.

During the 1920's, the tail of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate that

• nativists sentiments were on the rise

• cultural values were similar between urban and rural America

• popular support for international involvement was increasing

• public support for limiting immigration was declining

Why did construction of the Panama Canal become more important to the U.S. after the Spanish- American War

• Congress realized that the key threat to national security came from South America

• Great Britain had plans to purchase the canal zone and colonize the territory

• Spain had regained control of its former colonies near the canal route

• The navy needed a faster way to move ships between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

president Theodore Roosevelt strengthened the Monroe Doctrine by establishing the policy that the U.S. would

• required Latin American nations to end trade with Europe

• reduce Asian influences in Latin America

• intervene in Latin American to prevent European interference

• develop military alliances with Pacific naval powers

The Scopes trial and the Sacco and Vanzetti case both involved

• disputes over the death penalty

• clashes over cultural values

• protests by temperance leaders

• challenges to search and seizure protections

duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, and Bessie Smith are most closely associated with efforts to

• expand the Back to Africa movement

• fight discrimination through judicial system

• promote the cultural identity of African American through the arts

• establish the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People