Question 1

The U.S. Senate refused to ratify Wilson's Treaty of Versailles because, among other reasons,

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Senators feared that U.S. involvement in the League of Nations would mean that American troops might be sent into Europe and settle European disputes.

Question 2

By the late summer of 1918,

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American troops had arrived in France.

Question 3

The Great Migration between 1917 and 1918 referred to the movement of

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African Americans from the rural South to the urban North and West.

Question 4

When the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920,

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Woman suffragists linked woman suffrage with the nation's war aims.

Question 5

Wilson's Fourteen Points included all of the following except

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Closed diplomacy.

Question 6

In August of 1914, as war began in Europe, most Americans

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Felt that America should maintain a neutral role in the conflict.

Question 7

Where trade was concerned, why was it difficult for the United States to be neutral?

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The United States exported the things that both sides needed and would pay for.

Question 8

Congress passed which of the following laws to suppress dissent?

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The Espionage Act.

Question 9

Which of the following technologies was instrumental in building almost insurmountable trench lines during World War I?

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Barbed wire.

Question 10

The term Red Scare referred to the American fear of

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Communists, anarchists, socialists, and labor unionists.

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