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- In response to the sinking of the Lusitania, the United StatesAnnounced its intention to go to war to defend its rights as a neutral country.Agreed to stop trading with any belligerent.Declared war on Germany.Cautioned Americans against traveling on British or French vessels.Demanded that Germany cease unrestricted submarine warfare.
- Which of the following descriptions best describes the American army when the United States entered World War I?It was staffed with recruits and draftees drawn only from young men with the highest IQs.It was woefully unprepared, with little combat experience and an aging officer corps.It was staffed mainly with green draftees.It was at its peak of fighting form after a year-long preparedness campaign.It was almost non-existent because of the pacifist tendencies of the Wilson Administration.
- What was the initial reaction of most Americans to the outbreak of World War I in Europe?They gleefully saw the war as a golden opportunity for American business to make money.They did not care because the United States had no ties to Europe.They wanted to ensure that the United States could stay out of the conflict.They feared that war in Europe would propel the United States into economic recession.They wanted the United States to declare war against Germany.
- In order to acquire the right for the United States to build a canal across Panama in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt.Seized Panama Purchased the completed canal from a French companySigned a treaty with ColumbiaHelped facilitate a Panamanian rebellion against Columbia and then negotiated a treaty to a lease a strip of territory Pain Columbia $25 million for a ten-mile wide strip of land in its province of Panama.
- Why did temperance advocates receive a boost from World War I?All of these choicesThey said that beer was a German plot to undermine America's moral fiber and fighting qualities.They said it was unpatriotic to use grain to manufacture liquor at a time when food had to be conserved.They pointed out that the biggest breweries¾like Pabst, Schlitz, and Anheuser-Busch¾had German names.Americans were able to view prohibition as a war measure.
- Why did black Americans migrate to northern cities during World War I?They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion.Southern blacks knew that race relations in the North were idyllic compared with those in the South.The federal government had used the wartime emergency as an opportunity to end southern sharecropping.They knew of the northern race riots and decided to move north to help their brothers.They had been told that northern agriculture was more prosperous than southern agriculture.
- Which of the following statements about the experiences of blacks during World War I is correct?There was a mass movement of blacks from northern cities to southern farms.Black soldiers found the French even more racist than American whites were.Blacks found it impossible to get jobs in northern industry.Black soldiers served in segregated units.Blacks followed the advice of Booker T. Washington to "put down their buckets where they were," and for that reason few moved north.
- Which of the following was a new technique of warfare that was introduced in World War I?sea conflicttactical nuclear warfareair conflictuse of the bayonetground warfare
- The Zimmermann telegramContained proof that the Germans were committing such atrocities as bayoneting babies.Pledged that Germany would not sink any more merchant ships without giving warning and saving civilians.Proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico in a war against the United States after which, Mexico would receive New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona.Demonstrated that Austria-Hungary had turned its back on Germany in order to save Italy.Revealed Germany's designs to conquer and colonize much of Central and South America.
- What had Britain done that resulted in the shortage of supplies?
- How was slavery in the South impacted by the Revolution?
- Why did many southern Loyalists turn their support over to the Patriot cause?
- American farmers would sometimes choose to sell their products to the British army instead of the American army. Why would they do this?
- What did it mean when Abigail Adams asked her husband John Adams to "remember the ladies"? How did her husband react?
- American General who lead the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
- How did the French and Indian War lead to the American revolution.
- Before the war ended, the Union government set up the Freedmen's Bureau toA. help former slaves and poor whites living in the South.B. move former slaves from the South to the North.C. train former slaves to fight in the army.D. integrate former slaves with poor whites in the North.
- The Ku Klux KlanA. terrorized blacks and white Republicans to keep them from voting in elections.B. wanted Samuel Tilden to be president and opposed the election of Rutherford B. Hayes.C. protested against a literacy test that made it more difficult for freedmen to vote.D. were Southerners who supported freedmen's rights by establishing the Freedmen's Bureau.
- The amnesty act passed by Congress in 1872A. pardoned former Confederates.B. closed the Freedmen's Bureau.C. officially ended Reconstruction.D. placed the South under military rule.
- African Americans during the warA. always earned the same amount as white soldiers.B. no longer dealt with issues of racism and hostility.C. received the same weapons and training as white soldiers.D. were eventually authorized to be recruited into the army.