Questions for Don't Know Much About History

1) Name five important books of the 1920s.
2) What was the first "talkie"? How did it change America?
3) Discuss the "Red Scare of 1919".
4) What was the 18th amendment? Why was it enacted? How did it go wrong?
5) Who were Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul?
6) What is important about Henry Ford? How did he change America?
7) What is important about Charles Lindbergh? How did he symbolize the times?
8) What were "pool operators" and how were they crooked?
9) How were stocks inflated? How did this cause the crash?
10) What was Black Thursday and Black Tuesday?
11) What was Hoover's view of Government relief programs?
12) What was the "Bonus Army"?
13) What happened during the "Hundred Days"?
14) What was the WPA and what did it do?
15) What were Roosevelt's FIRESIDE CHATS and why did they become important?

Things to Know Part II

Things to Know: Don’t Know Much About History 231 – 248

What was the Bull Moose Party?
Why is W.E.B. Du Bois connected with John the Baptist?
How many votes did Eugene Debs receive in 1912? What was his party?
What was the 16th Amendment?
What was the 17th Amendment?
Why did America become “Big Brother” to Latin America under Woodrow Wilson.
How did World War I start?
Why did World War I start?
What were the divisions (or sides)?
Discuss the importance of the Lusitania.
Why, ultimately, did the United States enter World War I?
How many casualties did the Battle of the Marne have?
What was the Espionage Act? Do you consider this act legal?
How many Americans died in WWI? How many people died totally?
How was the world map reshaped after WWI?

People:

Woodrow Wilson
General John J. Pershing
Eugene Debs
Howard Taft
Upton Sinclair

Study Questions for DON'T KNOW ABOUT HISTORY

Be able to Identify the following people:

George Armstrong Custer
JP Morgan
W.E.B. Du Bois
James Butler Hickok
Theodore Roosevelt
Eugene Debs
Benjamin Harrison
William McKinley
John D. Rockefeller

Be able to discuss the Importance of the following:

The assassination of William McKinley
The Robber Barons and what they did
The Jungle
Why the Spanish American War was fought
Wounded Knee
Custer’s Last Stand
Jim Crow
Separate But Equal
How the 14th Amendment was used to protect corporations
The Panama Canal
Roosevelt and his “big stick”

Other questions:

What lands did America get from winning the Spanish-American War?
How did this war make America an Imperial Country?
How did Theodore Roosevelt rise in politics?