Transcript Industrial Revolution, WWI, Roaring Twenties Review

Industrial Revolution, WWI,
Roaring Twenties Review
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• Which document contains President Woodrow
Wilson’s call to create the League of Nations?
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• Fourteen Points
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• What was one reason that national
Prohibition failed?
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• Many Americans did not support the law
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• Which set of events related to World War I is
in the correct chronological order?
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• Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated WWI
begins  Lusitania sunk  US declares war on
Germany.
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• This cartoon from the 1920s
shows the United States
government’s attempt to
deal with
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• Immigration
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• What was the immediate cause of the
outbreak of WWI (1914)?
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• The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria.
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• President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
was a plan to
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• Prevent future wars
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• During the early 1900s, large numbers of
African Americans from the South found
better job opportunities
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• In northern cities
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• What was one main reason for the rise of
organized crime during the 1920s?
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• The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was
illegal.
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• Germany had to accept blame for war in
Europe
• Germany had to pay war reparations to
European nations
• Germany had to disarm and reduce its military
forces
Which document imposed the above
punishments on Germany after WWI?
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– Treaty of Versailles
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• Before 1919,
most of the
states that
had granted
full voting
rights to
women were
located in the
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• West
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• The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
influenced American society by
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• Increasing awareness of African American
contributions to American culture.
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• Much of the economic growth of the 1920s
was created by
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• Sales of new consumer goods
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• In the late 1800s, rapid urbanization was
mainly the result of the
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• Impact of urbanization
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• During the Progressive Era (1900-1920),
muckrakers were best known for
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• Exposing harmful practices of business and
government
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• The United States was drawn into WWI mainly
because of
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• The unrestricted use of submarine warfare
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• President Woodrow Wilson wanted to form
the League of Nations to
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• Prevent future wars
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• In 1892, The United States government
opened Ellis Island primarily to
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• Process immigrants arriving from overseas
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• What was an immediate economic result of
the use of mass-production techniques in
American factories?
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• Reduced cost of goods
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• Which event led to the passage of laws that
created safer working conditions?
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• Triangle shirtwaist Fire
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• Which source of information is a primary
source on trench warfare during WWI?
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• A diary kept by a soldier fighting on the western front
during WWI
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• Senate opposition to US membership in the
League of Nations was based mainly on the
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• Belief that League decisions would involve the US in
foreign conflicts
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• Which feature of the Harlem Renaissance best
reflects the image of the Roaring Twenties?
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• Expression through jazz and dance
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• A feature that is unique to a free enterprise
economic system is
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• Private ownership of the means of production
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• In the period from 1890 to 1910, most
immigrants from eastern and southern Europe
settled in large cities of the eastern United
States primarily because
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• Factory jobs were available for unskilled workers
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• In 1914, fighting increased rapidly from a local
conflict in Europe to a world war because
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• Powerful nations had opposing alliances
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• Most people purchase shares of stock in a
corporation in order to
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• Share in corporate profits
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• Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Bessie
Smith made significant contributions to the
Harlem Renaissance in the field of
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• Music
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• Imperialism was a cause of WWI mainly
because it
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• Created conflicts between nations over colonies
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• A “return to normalcy” after World War I
meant
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• Going back to life as it had been before the war
• Half of your test grade will be the
benchmark questions we have
gone over in class!
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• What is the message
from the cartoon on
the left?
• Who does the man
with the cane, in the
cartoon represent?
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• 1) Children went to work to help their family
survive
• 2) The government
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• What is the message of
the cartoon?
• What can both of these
cartoons tell the reader
about child labor?
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• 1) Children were treated similar to slaves
• 2) Children made up a significant part of the
workforce.
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• Find “US Recognition of Cuban Independence”
– 1) What event occurred that caused the President
to finally take action against Spain?
– 2) What was the US demanding from Spain?
– 3) How was the US going to help Cuba?
– 4) What is the best definition of abhorrent?
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1) Destruction of a battleship
2) Give Cuba its freedom from Spain
3) Use the US military to help keep them free
4) Repulsive
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• Find Excerpt from “Enactments So Utterly UnAmerican”
– 1) Based on the excerpt, what was the purpose of
the specified act?
– 2) According to the author, why did the legislature
enact a law prohibiting Chinese immigration?
– 3) Why does the author call the new law “utterly
un-American”?
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• 1) To prohibit the immigration of Chinese
laborers to the US for the next ten years and
punish shipmasters who allowed their
passage.
• 2) Out of response to constant complaints
from other people living in California.
• 3) He does not think that the law shares the
same ideals of liberty and equality outlined in
the Declaration of Independence.
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• 4) What is the purpose of pointing out that opponents to
Chinese immigration were the “low Irish in California”?
• 5)Based on his tone of disgust and frustration about the
“un American” nature of the law, which other historical
movement might the author consider to be un-American?
• 6) The act referred to in the above excerpt also included
“Section six: exempt status for teachers, students,
merchants and travelers” allowing people in these classes
to enter the US with the proper documentation. What does
this exemption imply about American values at the time of
its enactment?
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• 1) To remind the reader that many of the
opponents also immigrated to the US at one
point in time.
• 2) Slavery
• 3) education and economic activity motivated
legislation at the time.
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• Find Woodrow Wilson’s speech on the 14
points:
– 1) According to Wilson, why did the US enter
WWI?
– 2) Which phrase from Wilson’s speech best
supports the creation of the League of Nations?
– 3) According to Cabot Lodge, what is the best way
for the US to ensure world peace?
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• 1) To secure life and freedom for all of the
people in the world?
• 2) All the peoples of the word are in effect
partners in this interest.
• 3) By focusing on solving its own problems
first.
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• 1) Both the
advertisement and the
poem express the
prevailing attitude in
1899 that…
• 2) both the
advertisement and the
poem are examples
of…
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• 1) It was the responsibility of Americans and
the British to “civilize” native peoples.
• 2) racism, the belief in the superiority of one
race over another.
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• 1) What emotions was
the artist appealing to
when he put the symbols
of Japan and the Nazi
party on the shadowy
hands on the poster?
• 2) What is the purpose of
this propaganda poster?
• 3) How does the poster
depict America’s
enemies?
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• 1) Fear and urgency
• 2) To convince citizens that buying war bonds
will help protect them from enemy forces
• 3) As threats to innocent civilians
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• Find the Joseph Stalin and Roosevelt primary
sources
– 1) Why did President Roosevelt include the phrase
“premeditated invasion,” meaning it was planned in
advance, to describe Japan’s attack?
– 2) What is Roosevelt’s purpose for including the first
line of the excerpt?
– 3) According to Roosevelt, why should Congress
declare war on Japan?
– 4) Select the answer choice that places the events in
correct order.
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• 1) To convince citizens and Congress that the
Japanese meant to start a war.
• 2) To ensure the American people that he has
taken measures to protect the country.
• 3) Japan and the US are already in a state of
war after the attack on Pearl Harbor
• 4) WWII begins in Europe, The Japanese Bomb
Pearl Harbor, FDR gives the above speech,
Congress declares war.
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• 1) What was the illegalization
of alcohol called?
• 2) Looking at the cartoon,
what is the man on the right
trying to eliminate?
• 3) According to the source,
what must happen to totally
get rid of liquor?
• 4) Why is the source stating
the cartoon is “more true”
than what people are
hearing?
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1)Prohibition
2) The prohibition movement
3) Vote to make Prohibition the law
4) Politicians are lying about the issue