World War I (Easy Mode)
100: What spurred the rapid increase in U.S. government spending between 1916 and 1918?
The military buildup for World War I?
100: How did President Woodrow Wilson initially follow traditional U.S. foreign policy at the start of World War I?
He declared American neutrality/isolationism.
100: What characterized the “boom” years of the 1920s?
Widespread automobile use, consumerism, installment plans, stock purchasing, etc
100: What cultural movement celebrated African American art, music, and writing in the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance
100: Whose solo transatlantic flight made him an international celebrity?
Charles Lindbergh
200: Which technological development contributed to mass casualties in World War I?
Machine Gun
200: What were Wilson’s Fourteen Points primarily concerned with?
Peace, ending WW1.
200: What encouraged the rise of consumer culture in the 1920s?
Advertising and installment buying.
200: What was a major result of the Harlem Renaissance?
Increased recognition of African American culture.
200: How did Lindbergh’s flight impact American society?
It promoted confidence in air travel and investment in aviation
300: Why did World War I lead to a stalemate on the Western Front?
Trench Warfare
MAIN is the acronym used to explain the causes of WW1.
Name 2 of the 4.
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What innovation made car production cheaper and faster in the 1920s?
Assembly Line
300: Why did Marcus Garvey disagree with other civil rights leaders?
He promoted separatism and a return to Africa
300: Who revolutionized automobile manufacturing with the assembly line?
Henry Ford
400: What were World War I soldiers protecting themselves from when wearing gas masks?
Poison Gas
400: What is the term for avoiding involvement in foreign affairs?
Isolationism
400: What area of New York City was the center of American music production in the early 1900s?
(First Record Label)
Tin Pan Alley
400: Which leader influenced the Black Power Movement through his belief in separatism?
Marcus Garvey
400: What were the immigration quotas of the 1920s based on?
Immigrants’ country of origin
500: Why did the United States return to isolationism after World War I?
Refusal to sign the Treaty of Versailles.
Other answers may be accepted.
500: How did the war economy affect U.S. oil production after 1914?
It increased to meet wartime demands
500: What issue was at the center of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial?
Teaching of human evolution in public schools.
Science vs Religion.
500: What was the major purpose of the Progressive Movement (1900–1917)?
Correcting the abuses of industrial society
500: What widespread public fear was represented in cartoons during the First Red Scare?
Fear of communist influence threatening U.S. stability