Chapter 29 Reading Questions
American Pageant
Use lots of proper nouns to respond to the questions from the
chapter.
1. Identify several reforms of the Woodrow Wilson
administration.
2. What were the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I?
3. List and explain how World War I created a repressive
atmosphere for civil liberties, resulting in official
restrictions on freedom of speech.
4. What motivated African Americans to begin a “Great
Migration” out of the South during World War I?
5. What “interventions” in other nations did the U.S. engage
in during the Wilson administration?
6. How did the U.S. initial position of neutrality evolve into
full scale involvement in World War I?
7. What evidence is there for Woodrow Wilson being an
“idealist?”
8. What role did the American Expeditionary Force play in
World War I?
9. To what extent was Woodrow Wilson involved in postwar
negotiations and what was the results?
10. Outline the arguments for and against the ratification of
the Treaty of Versailles by the U.S. Senate.
Terms to Know from Chapter 29
Underwood Tariff 1913
Federal Reserve Act 1913
Federal Trade Commission Act 1914
Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
Federal Farm Loan Act 1916
LaFollette’s Seaman’s Act 1915
Workingman’s Compensation Act 1916
Adamson Act 1916
Louis Brandeis
Jones Act 1916
The Yankee “Moat” p. 667
Victoriano Huerta
Migration of Mexicans
Pancho Villa
Tampico Incident
General John J. Pershing
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Central Powers
Allied Powers
Isolationism
Neutrality
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Lusitania
Zimmermann note/telegram
Idealism
Wilson’s Fourteen Points
League of Nations
American Expeditionary Force
Committee on Public Information
George Creel
“Over There”
Espionage Act 1917
Industrial Workers of the World
Eugene V. Debs
Big Bill Haywood
War Industries Board
Bernard Baruch
Herbert Hoover
Food Administration
16th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Great Migration
Women’s Suffrage
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act 1921
Doughboys
Conscription
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Wood
Treaty of Versailles
Hiram Johnson
Henry Cabot Lodge