30 Week Review #8

Which term from the 1920s is most closely associated with Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes?

• Lost Generation

• Red Scare

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Harlem Renaissance

This photograph shows one side of the 1920s conflict between

• union men and factory owners

• science and religion

• nativists and immigrants

• censorship and free press

In his war message to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson urged the United States to enter World War I in order to

• protect the empires of European countries

• create a new world government

• make the world safe for democracy

• stop a British attack on the United States

In the late 1800s, the major goal of United States policy in both the annexation of Hawaii and the acquisition of the Philippines was to

• obtain coaling stations and seaports for United States ships

• expand United States fishing rights in international waters

• limit the spread of Japanese influence

• protect the area around the Panama Canal

In the late 1890s, yellow journalism most directly influenced the United States government’s decision to

• build the Panama Canal

• open Japan to trade with the West

• enter the Spanish-American War

• purchase Alaska and Hawaii

The main reason the United States Senate did not approve the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 was because the treaty

• did not force Germany to return conquered territory

• threatened to draw the nation into future international conflicts

• failed to include war reparations

• was opposed by President Woodrow Wilson

During the 1920s, the influence of the Ku Klux Klan and the passage of laws setting immigration quotas illustrated the

• rejection of traditional religious values

• support for integrated public schools

• negative reaction to the Scopes trial

• growth of nativism

What was the major reason that African Americans migrated to northern cities during and after World War I?

• A surplus of cotton led to widespread farm foreclosures in the South.

• Discrimination had been eliminated in the North.

• Political opportunities had expanded in the South.

• Industrial jobs were available in the North.

One major goal of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918) was to

• collect war reparations for the United States

• maintain United States naval superiority

• punish the nations that started World War I

• create a League of Nations to prevent future wars

In the late 1800s, an increased demand for raw materials and a desire for new markets contributed to the United States adopting a policy of

• Imperialism

• Collective Security

• Pacifism

• Isolationism