1919 The Year That Changed America Test | Final Test - Hard

Martin W. Sandler
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 150 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

1919 The Year That Changed America Test | Final Test - Hard

Martin W. Sandler
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sandler states that those "who carried out lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were" what kind of "spectacle" (71)?

2. Which black poet and leader proclaimed after World War I, "We return from fighting! We return fighting! Make way for democracy!" (66)?

3. Who was the most famous female anarchist deported during the Palmer Raids in 1919?

4. The period referred to as the Red Summer actually ended in which month of 1919?

5. Every black man arrested during the 1919 Elaine Massacre was helped by civil rights groups and all were released by January of what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did the words of W.E.B. Du Bois have on black Americans returning from serving in World War I?

2. What role did the black press play in the Great Migration of the early twentieth century?

3. How did the Red Scare get its title?

4. In which three American cities did the three "largest and most devastating riots of all take place" (72) during the period called the Red Summer?

5. What was the House Un-American Activities Committee and who created it?

6. What did the Northern United States symbolize for the famous writer Richard Wright?

7. Who was the leader of the second Red Scare and when did it occur?

8. What action did the NAACP take against four major white newspapers in 1919 and why?

9. What scene is captured in the photograph Sandler includes as an epigraph to Chapter 4: The Red Scare and what is its significance?

10. Who was the leader of the first Red Scare?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose for Sandler’s inclusion of photographs within 1919: The Year That Changed America?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways does Sandler use discussion of current events within the text of 1919: The Year That Changed America and for what purpose does he introduce these elements?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Sandler’s use of the motif of sound within the nonfiction work 1919: The Year That Changed America.

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