Milestones Review #7

Which of the following was a social change related to the automobile?

Establishments which illegally served alcohol during prohibition.

In relation to the League of Nations, the United States never joined.

Fearing the United States would declare war, Germany ordered all submarine commanders to __________.

What happened to the British liner Lusitania?

During the Great Depression, approximately ____ banks closed.

Individuals who illegally transported alcohol during prohibition.

How was the U.S. able to initially avoid a recession following World War I?

Where did the Dust Bowl originate?

The richest 1% of the American population owned 40% of the country’s wealth.

___ was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for obstructing the war effort.

_____ believed that joining the League of Nations would obligate the U.S. to get involved in future European conflicts.

The ___ was a major population shift of blacks from the South to the North.

Which of the following was a factor in creating new restrictions on immigration?

Resulted in many people seeing themselves as “needing” certain items instead of simply “wanting” them.

Herbert Hoover attempted to diminish the impact of the Great Depression by creating __________.

Prior to World War 1, factory owners preferred to hire __________ workers.

When consumers quit spending except for absolute necessities and created a surplus of goods in the market place.

Which of the following is an example of a high yield crop farmers were growing prior to the dustbowl?

How did famers respond once drought impacted 75% of the country?

At the beginning of the first World War Belgium _______.

During the Great Depression, there were nearly ____ homeless people migrating around the US.

A series of actions against suspected anarchists and communists which resulted in 556 people being deported.

In addition to borrowing money to finance the war, the US also increased ___.

An example of new businesses needed due to the automobile was ____.

In Aug 1914, war broke out in Europe with ____ & Germany on one side & France, Great Britain, & Russia on the other side

_____ was an encampment of shelters.

How did the Wilson administration move to centrally organize the United States’ economy during World War 1?

Which treaty ended World War I?

Which system naturally has dips in its economic cycle?

A reason the 18th Amendment was repealed was so the government could levy taxes on alcohol during the Great Depression.

Although the United States was officially neutral, our actions tended to favor __________.

The Red Scare was heightened by a series of bombings sponsored by a group of ____.

The ____ marked the first significant artistic movement coming out of black culture.

Economic system where citizens pay high taxes to fund state-run social services, including healthcare, food, & housing.

Economic system in which the state owns all businesses and controls distribution of goods and services.

What led to the stock market crash of October 1929?

When U.S. industries increased their productive capacity and ended up with more goods than consumers

Which of the following helped to create a stronger national, rather than regional identity?

"Okies" was a term used to describe people who left __________ and traveled to the central California farming region.

The Red Scare was the wave of fear and action to protect the United States from the threat of ___.

Karl Marx described a revolution out of which a dictatorship would be created where workers would share ____ & ____.

Which of the following encouraged consumers to spend more during the 1920s?

Farmers were a group that was negatively impacted by _____ markets not buying American goods.

Law which provided penalties for spying, sabotage, and obstructing the war effort.

To calm the potential for violence, ____ went before Congress on August 19, 1914 to ask for a declaration of neutrality.

The Modernist Movement was represented by which of the following types of art?

How did Americans respond to the publication of the Zimmerman Telegram?

What did the 18th Amendment prohibit?

German practice of attacking Allied warships, and commercial ships belonging to both belligerent and neutral nations.

During the 1920s, coal mining suffered as ____ began to replace coal as fuel.

The 19th Amendment granted _____ in the United States.

Which of the following groups were hardest hit by the Great Depression?

The dust storms and drought of the Dust Bowl lasted nearly ____.

The ____ set a limit on the number of immigrants who could enter the US from particular countries.

Why would many men abandon their families and not return?

Which of the following was a contributing factor in the failure of banks in the United States?

Which of the following contributed to farmers planting thousands of acres of marginal land in crops?

Vladimir Lenin led the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics following the 1917 revolution in ___.

Which of the following was one of the Fourteen Points?

The ____ was sent between Germany & Mexico.

During the Great Migration, blacks moved from the South to the North to escape ____.

____ was a famous jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance.

According to Conservatives of the 1920s, which of the following spread immoral influences?

Just before and during the Great Depression, the US had more consumers than goods.

Which of the following cities saw their black populations rise due to the Great Migration?

_____ used an improved assembly line, a process called mass production, to quickly build automobiles

The sale of Liberty Bonds accounted for paying ____ of the war’s cost.

The Fourteen Points was __________ plan for creating a lasting peace in the world.

Even with a Declaration of Neutrality, the actions of the US tended to favor ___.

Capitalism is the economic system in which the ____ determine(s) the prices of goods and services.

How did investors attempt to maximize their wealth in real estate and the stock market?

What were many European nations facing after World War I?

The Zimmerman Telegram was intercepted by ____.

How were many individuals able to purchase new automobiles and household appliances during the 1920s?