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Weeks Seven and Eight Assignments

1. Woodrow Wilson was similar to other Progressives in that resisted changing the

government in order to accommodate the ______________________

________________________.

2. The progressive age of efficiency and bureaucracy, in business as well as government,

brought into being a society in which more and more of the decisions affecting peoples

lives were made by unelected _______________________ _____________________.

3. Progressivism was largely a ________________-__________________movement in

which the poor and unorganized had little influence.

4. In 1914, American troops were sent into Veracruz, Mexico largely because a Mexican

official refused to _____________________ the _______________________

___________________.

5. President Woodrow Wilson sent __________________________ __________

____________________ into Mexico to apprehend the notorious Pancho Villa.

6. ________________________ ______________ encouraged American bankers to aid

debt-plagued governments in Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

7. The closing off of _______________________ _____________________ and the

movement of 4 million men from the workforce into the armed services created a labor

shortage.

8. The ______________________ __________________ was the movement in which

northern businesses sent recruiters into the Deep South to find workers for their factories

and mills, resulting in over 400,000 southern blacks moving northward during World

War I.

9. _________________________ ____________________ was the executive director of

the Committee on Public Information that sold Woodrow Wilson on the idea that the best

approach to influencing public opinion was propaganda instead of censorship.

10.Under the ________________________ and ______________________ of 19171918

criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime.

11.For violating the Espionage Act, Socialist leader _______________________

_________________ received a ten-year prison term.

12.The American war effort early on in World War I was a race for_______________________.

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13.The turning point in France came at the Second Battle of the

__________________________.

14.The leader of the Bolshevik party was a man by the name of

__________________________ Lenin.

15.As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the Russians concluded a separate

peace with __________________________.

Week Eight

1. The __________________ ______________ epidemic killed five times as the number of

Americans as died of combat deaths in France.

2. The Red Summer began in July of 1919, when whites invaded the black section of

____________________ Texas in search of a teacher who had allegedly accused a white

woman of dating a black man. (Longview)

3. A race riot in which 38 people were killed and over 500 injured took place in July 1919 in

______________________ _______________________.

4. Nicola Sacco and ____________________ ____________________ were two Italian-born

anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt.

5. The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s favored immigrants from

_______________________ and ______________________________ Europe.

6. The 1924 immigration law set ________________________ limits on the number of immigrants

allowed into the United States.

7. The Ku Klux Klan had over ________________________ million members during it peak years.

8. By the 1910s, the ___________________-___________________________ League had become

one of the most effective pressure groups in American history.

9. The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was

ratified in ______________________________.

10.Not being able to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted

him for ______________________________ _______________________.

11.Sinclair Lewis wrote a book entitled Main Streetabout ____________________-

___________________ life.

12.The novel This Side of Paradise concerned modernist student life at

____________________________.

13.In 1921, Margaret Sanger organized the American _________________________

__________________________ League.

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14.Business executives interpreted the ____________________ victory in 1924 as a vindication of

their leadership, and Calvin Coolidge saw the economys surging prosperity as a confirmation of

his efforts to promote the interests of big business.

15.The ______________________ were years of extraordinary innovation and inventiveness.