US History Quarter 2 Review

Question 1

True or False: When you stay NEUTRAL during a conflict, it means that you choose a side

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Which of the following was not a newly widespread technology of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Laptops

Question 3

What is IMPERIALISM?

Accepted Answer

The practice of a country taking over other land through force/diplomacy

Question 4

The Harlem Renaissance was...

Accepted Answer

An explosion of African American culture in the 1920s (music, art, writing)

Question 5

What was the name of the passenger ship sunk by the German U-Boats that killed 128 Americans?

Accepted Answer

Lusitania

Question 6

What was the name of the legendary all black army unit who spent 191 days straight on the trenches during World War 1?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Hellfiighters

Question 7

True or False: "Propaganda" are ads from the government to persuade its people to think or act in a certain way

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

MANIA helps us remember the causes of World War I. MANIA stands for...

Accepted Answer

Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination

Question 9

True or False: "Diplomacy" means peaceful negotiations between countries

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

President Theodore Roosevelt's (1901-1909) international diplomacy was called...

Accepted Answer

Big Stick Diplomacy (using America's military power)

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of American IMPERIALISM?

Accepted Answer

The US taking the territories of Cuba and the Philippines in the late 1800s

Question 12

What is INTERVENTIONISM?

Accepted Answer

Belief that the U.S.A. SHOULD get involved in other countries' affairs

Question 13

What country was Germany trying to convince to invade America in the Zimmerman Telegram?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 14

What new type of warfare was introduced in World War 1?

Accepted Answer

Trench warfare

Question 15

Why did the US invade Cuba in 1898 to begin the Spanish-American War? (2 possible answers)

Accepted Answer

To get revenge for the sinking of the Maine, an American ship, To gain access to Cuba's natural resources, like iron and wood

Question 16

Woodrow Wilson kept the United States out of World War 1 initially because of all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

The US had an alliance with Germany

Question 17

President Woodrow Wilson's (1909-1913) international diplomacy was called...

Accepted Answer

Moral Diplomacy (using America's political power)

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT a motivation for the United States to expand its empire in the late 1800s?

Accepted Answer

A desire to practice isolationism

Question 19

True or False: Assembly lines helped make products more quickly.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

True or False: An alliance is a partnership between two countries

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

True or False: the Prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s led to an increase in organized crime

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

President William Howard Taft's (1909-1913) international diplomacy was called...

Accepted Answer

Dollar Diplomacy (using America's economic power)

Question 23

What is ISOLATIONISM?

Accepted Answer

Belief that the U.S.A. should NOT get involved in other countries' affairs

Question 24

How did American imperialism affect the native people in the territories that the US acquired?

Accepted Answer

They experienced oppression, forced relocation, and loss of their culture.

Question 25

True or False: Isolationists wanted America to practice imperialism and get involved in foreign affairs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

The Scopes Trial of 1925 demonstrated

Accepted Answer

Tension between science and religion

Question 27

What is NATIONALISM?

Accepted Answer

Pride in one's country, or the desire to establish one's own country

Question 28

Why did African Americans move north during the Great Migration? (2 possible answers)

Accepted Answer

For job opportunities in the north, To escape racism in the South

Question 29

What was the name of the government agency that created propaganda posters to get Americans on board with World War I?

Accepted Answer

Committee on Public Information

Question 30

In the 1920s, flapper dresses like this one represented...

Accepted Answer

An increase in women's freedom - to dress how they wanted, to vote, to work

Question 31

How did radio help create a national American culture in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

People across the country were now listening to the same music, and news

US History Quarter 2 Review

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US History Quarter 2 Review

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