Chapter 22: Homework
Answer both the Short Answer and the Review Questions; the vocabulary has been provided for you to study. Submit your answers to the dropbox labeled Chapter 22 Homework. I will provide answers to you after your submission for you to use to study. You will be graded on your effort. By submitting the work, you are agreeing that this is your work and you have not worked with another student or copied their work. You may submit up to the deadline but NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)
- How did progressive ideals fare during wartime?
- Why did the Senate fail to ratify the Treaty of Versailles?
- How did the Red Scare contribute to the erosion of civil liberties after the war?
After WW1 America became increasingly isolationist. Civil liberties were eroded due to paranoia of socialism & foreign ideas.
Homework Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple choice questions)
- Which precedent guided President Wilson’s policies toward Latin America?
- What motivated the rebellion of Mexican farmers led by Pancho Villa in 1916–1917?
- What triggered the outbreak of World War I in 1914?
- How did President Wilson respond to the initial outbreak of war in Europe in 1914?
- Which divisions did European countries establish before the outbreak of World War I?
- How did Germany react to the 1914 blockade?
- How did President Wilson respond to the Germans’ sinking of the Lusitania?
- Why did Germany decide to resume unrestricted submarine warfare in January 1917?
- Describe the Zimmermann telegram that made headlines in 1917.
- What was the immediate cause of President Wilson’s decision to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in 1917?
- Once Congress declared war against Germany in April 1917, what did President Wilson state was the Americans’ goal in the war?
- Why did Woodrow Wilson select General John Pershing to command the American Expeditionary Force in Europe?
- Which nation suffered the most casualties in World War I?
- What did President Wilson do to ensure the loyalty of an immigrant nation to the cause of war?
- How did President Wilson demonstrate his progressive credentials when the United States entered the war in 1917?
- What reform or reforms did the National War Labor Policies Board enact successfully during World War I?
- The war provided a huge boost for the temperance movement and led to what outcome by late 1917?
- What event finally spurred the granting of suffrage to all American women in 1920?
- Why did President Wilson create the Committee on Public Information?
- What resulted from the patriotic fervor that grew in the United States during World War I?
- Why did the U.S. government pass the Espionage Act, the Trading with the Enemy Act, and the Sedition Act during World War I?
- What was the impact of World War I on partisan politics in the 1918 elections in the United States?
- What did President Wilson call for in his Fourteen Points?
- Why were the Germans outraged by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
- How were Wilson’s Fourteen Points honored in the Versailles treaty?
- Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge strongly oppose the Treaty of Versailles?
- Why did the United States failed to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join the League of Nations?
- What was the outcome of the return to free enterprise in the United States after World War I?
- How did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of Schenck v. United States (1919)?
- How did African Americans seek to escape the South’s cotton fields and kitchens between 1915 and 1920?
