What was the event that touched off the first declaration of war in World War I?
(14 - 1, #8)
the assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary
100
What is spying to acquire government secrets called?
(14 - 2, #2)
espionage
100
The American Civil Liberties Union raised money to test the Butler Act in Tennessee and asked John T. Scopes if he would be willing to be arrested for teaching what to his high school class?
(15 - 1, #5)
evolution
100
What was the name of the science that lent authority to racist theories and reinvigorated the nativist argument for strict immigration control?
(15 - 1, #2)
eugenics
100
What profession was probably hurt the worst by the Depression?
(18 - 2, #2)
farmers
200
What is the name of the technique that the British navy deployed against Germany to keep it from obtaining supplies?
(14 - 1, #9)
blockade
200
What was signed on November 11, 1918 that stopped the fighting? What does this mean?
(14 - 3, #4)
armistice; cease-fire
200
What were the stylish, unconventional American women of the 1920s who dressed in attire considered too revealing by previous generations called?
(15 - 1, #4)
flappers
200
Who became president when Warren G. Harding died in office?
(16 - 1, #1)
Calvin Coolidge
200
Perhaps the most important result of the New Deal was a noticeable change in what?
(18 - 2, #3)
the spirit of the American people
300
What was the method of loaning money to the government to pay for war used during WW I?
(14 - 2, #1)
Liberty Bonds
300
What type of warfare did rapid-fire machine guns lead to?
(14 - 3, #1)
trench warfare
300
Americans often linked immigrants with what type of politics?
(14 - 4, #1)
radicalism
300
On October 29, 1929 (Black Tuesday) what lost much of it’s value?
(17 - 1, #2)
the stock market
300
Many families on the Great Plains packed their belongings into old cars or trucks and headed west, hoping for a better life in what state?
(17 - 2, #2)
California
400
What was the name of the promise not to sink more merchant ships without warning?
(14 - 1, #10)
the Sussex Pledge
400
During World War I, what group took power in Russia and established a Communist government?
(14 - 3, #2)
the Bolsheviks
400
What group of political radicals opposed all forms of government?
(15 - 1, #1)
anarchists
400
In the election of 1928, what issue was use in a smear campaign against Alfred E. Smith?
(17 - 1, #1)
he was Catholic
400
What did Roosevelt believe was the first thing he had to do to fight the Depression?
(18 - 2, #1)
restore confidence in the banks
500
According to the Zimmermann telegram, if Mexico allied with Germany, Germany would do what?
(14 - 1, #11)
help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
500
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks?
(14 - 3, #3)
Vladimir Lenin
500
What did the new morality of the 1920's glorify?
(15 - 1, #3)
youth and personal freedom
500
What was the Teapot Dome scandal?
(16 - 1, #2)
the scandal created when Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves
500
Why did the Dust Bowl occur?
(17 - 2, #1)
plowed land was left uncultivated during a terrible drought