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11th Grade Unit 5
Introduction
Question | Answer |
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The work of what photographer and what journalist led to urban reforms, such as turning over control of local governments to boards of commissioners | Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens |
Which author wrote articles which forced Congress to pass meat, food, and drug inspection acts | Upton Sinclair |
Which author wrote an expose of oil industry practices which led to stiffer controls over bi business | Ida Tarbell |
What was the Federal Trade Commission established to do | Investigate unfair trade practices |
What was the Interstate Commerce Commission established to do | Regulate telephone and telegraph systems |
What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve System | Oversee nationals money and banking systems |
What did the Sixteenth Amendment do | Created graduated income tax |
What did the Seventeenth Amendment do | Provided for direct election of senators |
Who was the lead founder of the NAACP | W. E. B. DuBois |
What was the purpose of the NAACP | create an organized voice for African-American civil rights |
In what year did suffragists see their first victory | 1910 |
What was that victory | Wyoming gave women the vote |
What did the Nineteenth Amendment do | Gave voting rights to all women |
What is Taylorism | Mechanized industry and provided for a quota system |
Summarize the events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire. | Women were burned or crushed when they were unable to exit locked factory doors |
What were the three main causes of World War I | imperialism, nationalism, militarism |
When the war became a stalemate, what did the Germans begin using | Mustard gas |
What did the British establish | Naval blockade |
How did the Germans respond | Attacks on American shipping providing supplies to allies |
What prompted the U., S. Congress to declare war | German attacks on American shipping |
What is the Espionage Act | Forbade speaking or writing against the war |
What did the Versailles Peace Treaty create | League of Nations |
What about the Versailles Peace Treaty eventually lead to World War II | Imposed severe economic hardships on Germany |
What is the Red Scare | American worries about internal communists from Western Europe |
When was Prohibition revoked | 1933 |
What international event in 1917 touched off an excited reaction in the United States | Bolshevik Revolution |
What events in 1911 and 1913 suggest social upheaval and reform | Revolution in China and Ghandi’s protest leadership in South Africa |
What event in 1929 forms a conclusion to the era | Stock Market Crash caused Great Depression |
What was the nature of this conclusion | Cataclysmic |
What was Modernism | International literary and art movement |
How long did Modernism flourish | 1900-1920 |
How did Modernists express their rejection of the traditional | Experimental art forms |
Why did many American writers move to Europe after World War I? | they were disillusioned with American materialism after WWI |
Who were the ”Lost Generation” | American expatriate writers |
Who were the principal novelists of the expatriate group | Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Anderson, Dos Passos |
Who were the principle poets of the “Lost Generation” | Pound, Eliot, Stein, Lowell, Doolittle |
What new qualities did the Lost Generation novelists contribute to fiction | Stream of consciousness, new points of view, questioning of traditional values |
What two poetic forms were explored experimentally by Modernist poets | Haiku, free verse |
Why did the Modernists refer to themselves as Imagists | They presented precise images rather than emotions |
What is a novel | A long work of fiction with an involved plot |
When did novel s become an accepted literary form | 18th century Europe |
How does the modern novelist differ from early novelists | Rarely set out to teach a moral |
What is exposition | The introduction which introduces characters and setting and gives background information |
What is rising action | When plot events develop and intensify conflict |
What is climax | Highest point of conflict or suspense |
What is falling action | The events following and caused by the climax |
What is resolution | The point at which central conflict is ended |
What details create setting | Details that give a sense of particular time and place of a work |
How are details related to mood in fiction | They help establish the mood |
What is point of view as related to a novel | The perspective from which the story is told; the storyteller's perspective |
What is narrator in relation to a novel | Storyteller |
What is tone as related to a novel | The emotional attitude toward the reader or the subject in a literary work |
What is the theme as related to a novel | The central message |
What group of writers explored and expressed the values of everyday Americans in the early part of the twentieth century | Regionalists |
What is misleading about designated a group as Regionalists | Their work, although set in a specific region, explores universal themes |
Where were most of Willa Cather’s novels and stories set | Nebraska |
What opposing values did Cather explore in her work | Stability of traditional life versus female characters rebelling against traditional roles |
In what region are many of Robert Frost’s poems set | Rural New England |