Review Questions

1. In order to pursue his goal of using American influence overseas only when it was a moral imperative, Wilson put which man in the position of Secretary of State?

Charles Hughes
Theodore Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
John Pershing

2. Why was the German use of the unterseeboot considered to defy international law?

because other countries did not have similar technology
because they refused to warn their targets before firing
because they constituted cruel and unusual methods
because no international consensus existed to employ submarine technology

3. To what extent were Woodrow Wilson’s actual foreign policy decisions consistent with his foreign policy philosophy or vision?

4. Which of the following was not enacted in order to secure men and materials for the war effort?

the Food Administration
the Selective Service Act
the War Industries Board
the Sedition Act

5. What of the following was not used to control American dissent against the war effort?

propaganda campaigns
repressive legislation
National Civil Liberties Bureau
loyalty leagues

6. How did the government work to ensure unity on the home front, and why did Wilson feel that this was so important?

7. Why did the war not increase overall prosperity?

because inflation made the cost of living higher
because wages were lowered due to the war effort
because workers had no bargaining power due to the “no-strike pledge”
because women and African American men were paid less for the same work

8. Which of the following did not influence the eventual passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?

women’s contributions to the war effort
the dramatic tactics and harsh treatment of radical suffragists
the passage of the Volstead Act
the arguments of President Wilson’s daughter

9. Why was prohibition’s success short-lived?

10. What was Article X in the Treaty of Versailles?

the “war guilt clause” that France required
the agreement that all nations in the League of Nations would be rendered equal
the Allies’ division of Germany’s holdings in Asia
the refusal to allow Bolshevik Russia membership in the League of Nations

11. Which of the following was not included in the Treaty of Versailles?

extensive German reparations to be paid to the Allies
a curtailment of German immigration to Allied nations
France’s acquisition of disputed territory along the French-German border
a mandate for Germany to accept responsibility for the war publicly

12. What barriers did Wilson face in his efforts to ratify the Treaty of Versailles? What objections did those opposed to the treaty voice?

13. Which of the following was not a destabilizing factor immediately following the end of the war?

a flu pandemic
a women’s liberation movement
high inflation and economic uncertainty
political paranoia

14. What was the inciting event that led to the Chicago anti-Black Riot of 1919?

a strike at a local factory
a protest march of Black activists
the murder of a Black boy who swam too close to a White beach
the assault of a White man on a streetcar by Black youths

15. How did postwar conditions explain Warren Harding’s landslide victory in the 1920 presidential election?