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Study Questions: CE, pp. 680-687

1. What precedents supported American neutrality when the Great War broke out in 1914?

2. The U.S. has claimed neutrality from European conflicts because it enjoys “free security”. Explain this concept.

3. While Wilson claimed neutrality, the United States continued to trade with belligerents. We have done this before. Describe the result of this policy.

4. Why did the United States become the world’s largest creditor nation in 1914-5?

5. Describe casualties of WWI. How long was the US in the WWI and how did its casualties compare.

6. How were the Black Plague and 1918 Influenza were transmitted in similar ways?

7. Why did Irish Americans question the U.S.’s neutrality policy?

8. How is the Seventeenth Amendment similar and different from the direct primary?

9. Why were the years from 1913-1917 the climax of twentieth century liberalism?

10.Why was the Underwood-Simmons tariff good for consumers?

11.Why did the progressive income tax require a constitutional amendment?

12.Would Andrew Carnegie support the progressive tax measured pass in 1913-1916?

13.How was the Federal Reserve supposed to even out business cycles?

14.Who was part of the Money Trust?

15.How did the Clayton Act supplement the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

16.Why was the Federal trade Commission necessary to enforce the Clayton Act?

17.What labor measures were passed at the state and at the federal level?

18.Consider the legislation and executive orders passed in 1916. Was the Wilson Administration preservationist or conservationist?

19.Why were northern cities booming during WWI?

20. Describe the two factors that pulled Southerners, black and white North?

21.What pushed blacks to migrate North from the South?

22.Describe the agriculture sector during WWI?

23.What is Ellis Island?

24. Three times we have studied the effect of the U.S. neutrality policy. Did we do better this time or were the results the same as in the past?

25.Roosevelt is no longer a progressive but a “war hawk”. Describe the Ware Preparedness Movement.

26.Why did Eugene Debs oppose the war?

27. Prominent African-American leader, A. Philip Randolph, opposed the war, why?

28.If Wilson campaigned for his second term promising to “keep us out of war” why did the U.S. declare war on Germany one year later?

29.Why did Germany renege on its the Sussex Pledge?

30.One of history’s mysteries is who leaked the Zimmerman Note to the press. Care to make an educated guess?

31.Why was it convenient for Wilson join the side of the Entente the February Revolution in Russia?