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About This Drill
AP U.S. History — Period 7 (1890–1945) — Drill 14 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Period 7: 1890–1945. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This AP U.S. History Period 7 drill uses a modern historian's analysis of U.S. entry into World War I and its domestic consequences. Questions address Wilson's decision to enter the war, wartime civil liberties restrictions, the Espionage and Sedition Acts, and related Supreme Court rulings.
Passage
The following is adapted from a modern historian's essay on U.S. entry into World War I and its domestic consequences.
Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I in April 1917 has long been debated, but what is often underappreciated is the degree to which the war transformed the relationship between the federal government and American civil society. The Committee on Public Information, established under George Creel, deployed mass propaganda on a scale previously unknown in American history — coordinating newspapers, film, posters, and public speakers to manufacture consent for the war. Simultaneously, the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 criminalized dissent and enabled the prosecution of socialists, pacifists, and labor organizers who opposed the war. The lesson of the First World War for American governance was not simply that the United States could mobilize for global conflict — it was that a modern state possessed powerful new tools for shaping what citizens believed and suppressing what they said.
Questions in This Drill
- The historian's argument that the war revealed 'powerful new tools for shaping what citizens believed and suppressing what they said' most directly challenges which of the following assumptions about World War I's impact on the United States?
- The Espionage Act of 1917 and Sedition Act of 1918 that the historian describes were most directly tested in which of the following Supreme Court cases?
- The historian's emphasis on the Espionage and Sedition Acts' targeting of 'socialists, pacifists, and labor organizers' most directly reflects which of the following tensions in wartime America?
- The 'manufacturing of consent' that the historian attributes to the Committee on Public Information most directly involved which of the following activities?
- The domestic political repression described by the historian most directly contributed to which of the following developments in the years immediately following World War I?