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Germany’s sink of the British merchant ship _______, which led to the death of more than a hundred Americans in 1915.
Lusitania
Pg 5
Wilson embarked on a 9,981-mile cross-country speaking tour. Beginning in Columbus, Ohio, a private railcar called what?
Mayflower
Pg 8
What does IRC stand for?
International Reply Coupons
pg 24
What does NAWSA stand for?
National American Woman Suffrage Association
pg 21
The Washington Naval Conference brought delegations from the “big five” naval powers which was who?
U.S., Britain, Japan, France, Italy
pg 23
The deadly “Spanish flu” ironically originated in the United States. One of the earliest outbreaks occurred in the spring of 1918. The pandemic claimed nearly how many lives?
Nearly 70,000 Lives
Pg 5
The U.S. would not only become a charter member of the United Nations in 1945, but would also host the new organization’s headquarters in what state?
New York
Pg 9
Who lead the agency that became the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) in 1924?
J. Edgar Hoover
Pg 11
Who led the National Women’s Party (NWP), adopted the militant protest style of the British “suffragettes.”
Alice Paul
pg 21
A sordid affair involving public lands, private oil companies, and fraud so brazen that it set the gold standard for federal corruption for decades to come was called what?
Teapot Dome Scandal
pg 26
Who was Wilson’s greatest rival that had lined up thirty-nine senators and vowed to vote against the League without significant reservations, or amendments, earning them the designation “Reservationists.”
Henry Cabot Lodge
Pg 7
Palmer, a former Pennsylvania, created a special General Intelligence Division (GID) within the Justice Department’s of what to his anti-radical campaign in 1920.
Bureau of Investigation (BOI)
pg 11
In 1916, both the Democratic and Republican Party Platforms endorsed votes for women, and Montana voters sent who to the House of Representatives, making her the first woman elected to national office?
Jeanette Rankin
pg 21
At the stroke of midnight on January 17, 1920, what act enforced a constitutional ban on the manufacture, sale, and transport of beverages with an alcohol content above 0.05 percent?
Volstead Act
pg 19
By the time it officially ended in the early 1970s, six million African Americans and Black immigrants from the Caribbean had participate called what that relocated them to cities and towns across the nation.
Silent pilgrimage
pg 14
The final agreement was divided into three separate treaties and the Five-Power Treaty that established what ratio between U.S. , Britain, Japan for the limitation of capital vessels for fifteen years?
5:5:3 Ratio
pg 24
Although a handful of universities had opened business schools around the turn of the century, it was not until the 1920s that the “___________” took root across academia.
Science of Business
pg 28
Hoover had served in Wilson’s cabinet as director of what Administration before leaving this post to spearhead a massive European famine relief effort.
War Food Administration
pg 25
Garvey was born in the small rural town of St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, in 1887. The youngest of eleven children, Garvey grew up poor and began working as what as a teenager?
Printer’s apprentice
pg 18
In April 1922, the progressive Wisconsin Senator
“______” La Follette excoriated Fall in a fiery
speech on the Senate floor and called for a full-fledged
investigation of the oil leases.
Fighting Bob
pg 26
With the encouragement of several prominent African-American leaders, including Du Bois, the Justice Department began to build a felony mail fraud case against Garvey for his aggressive promotion of what shipping company that went bankrupt under his mismanagement.
The Black Star Line
In October, How many mail fraud did federal Grand Jury get from returning two indictments against Ponzi.
86
pg 25
On April 28, Seattle’s mayor who, had gained national celebrity for restoring order to his city after the general strike, was sent a homemade bomb through the mail.
Ole Hanson
pg 11
At New York’s iconic Cotton Club and the Roseland Ballroom, the brilliant composer ________ and his fellow bandleader Paul Whiteman helped define jazz as the soundtrack of the era.
Duke Ellington
pg 15
The 1920 arrest and subsequent trials of two Italian immigrants, _________ and ___________ was charged with the murder of a security guard during an armed robbery outside of Boston, became a rallying cry for a generation of leftist intellectuals.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
pg 14