American Pageant Questions

AMERICAN PAGEANT QUESTIONS-

CHAPTER 31: THE WAR TO END WAR, 1917-1918 HREF="http://www.historystuff.net/apcr.html" MACROBUTTON HtmlResAnchor 1. What was the Zimmerman note? 2. What finally pushed the United States into World War I? 3. What idealistic ideas did Wilson push in an attempt to unify America as it headed to war? 4. What were the Fourteen Points? 5. What was the Committee on Public Information? 6. How did WWI impact civil liberties? 7. What problems did the nation face as it headed into war? 8. What changes in labor patterns took place during WWI? 9. What was the Food Administration? Its leader? 10. How did the US pay for WWI? 11. How did the US raise troops to fight in WWI? 12. How did American fighters impact the war? 13. How did Wilson weaken his power before going to Europe for peace talks in 1918? 14. What was Wilson's major goal during the peace talks? 15. How did Wilson's Fourteen Points fall apart at Versailles? 16. Why did many Americans dislike the Treaty of Versailles? 17. As the Treaty began to falter, what action did Wilson take? 18. Why did Lodge and the Republicans oppose the Treaty of Versailles? 19. Why did the Versailles Treaty ultimately fail? 20. What was the importance of the election of 1920?

Possible Essay Topics for (Unit Nine) Chapters 29, 30, 31: 1. To what extent did the roles of women change in the years 1880 to 1920? 2. What were the different responses in the African American community to the establishment of Jim Crow segregation through legislation and custom in the American South (1880-1910)? 3. What were the main issues, ideas, and events of the Progressive Era during the period 1900-1915? 4. Assess the contributions of TWO of the following to the influence and reforms of the Progressive movement:  middle class  muckrakers  philosophy of pragmatism  presidential leadership 5. Progressives believed that greater democracy was the key to solving society’s problems. Identify TWO problems that the Progressives addressed and for each, describe a democratic reform that was designed to deal with the problem 6. Discuss how President Wilson could argue that his foreign policy was still committed to peace after he asked Congress for a declaration of war 7. Assess the influence of the United States’ involvement in World War I on TWO of the following:  African Americans  civil liberties  women  business 8. Compare and contrast U.S. foreign policy from 1914-1917 with U.S. foreign policy from 1801-1812.