America Builds an Empire Q7

What was the ultimate aim of this cartoon?

• to recruit supporters of prohibition to join the Ku

  Klux Klan

• to depict the Ku Klux Klan as a destructive force

  in US society

• to convince people of the Ku Klux Klan's

  commitment to Catholic values

• to demonstrate the Ku Klux Klan's power to defy

  the federal government

How did the artist MOST LIKELY view the Ku

Klux Klan?

• as defenders of the Eighteenth Amendment

• as opponents of the Nineteenth Amendment

• as defenders of the Twenty-first Amendment

• as opponents of the Twenty-second Amendment

To whom would this cartoon have appealed

MOST in the 1920s?

• civil rights activists

• labor union activists

• temperance movement activists

• women's suffrage activists

What were President Woodrow Wilson's

Fourteen Points used as the basis of at the end

of World War I?

• the Charter of the United Nations

• the terms of Germany's surrender

• the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• the terms of Russia's surrender

Which of the following BEST describes the

course of the Spanish-American War?

• Though the US troops were ravaged by disease,

  the Spanish military was poorly trained and the

  United States achieved victory after only a few

  months.

• While US troops often won battles due to their

  superior training, the guerrilla tactics employed

  by the Spanish caused the war to stretch on for

  more than a year

• The conflict lasted for more than a year as US

  troops were forced to do battle against both

  Spanish and Cuban forces after Spain granted

  Cuba its independence.

• As many battles were fought at sea and the

  United States had established itself as a global

  naval power, the United States won the war in

  just a few weeks

Why was the Zimmermann Telegram so

concerning to the United States that it swayed

public opinion from neutrality toward intervention

in World War I?

• In the telegram between German officials,

  Germany detailed its plan to sink American

  passenger ships its navy encountered in the

  Atlantic if the United States did not remain

  neutral

• In the telegram between German officials,

  Germany detailed its plan to open a new front in

  the war by invading US territories in the

  Caribbean.

• In the telegram, Germany requested Japanese

  assistance in capturing the US Territory of

  Hawaii in order to diminish the US presence in

  the Pacific.

• In the telegram, Germany promised Mexico

  territory it lost during the Mexican-American War

  in exchange for its pledge to join the German

  cause if the United States entered the war.