Chapter 20

Quiz for Chapter Twenty Thinking Like a Historian: German Americans in World War I

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Question 1

Source 1 appeared as part of an ad from the Columbia Gramophone Company in a political journal for German Americans known as Fatherland. The existence of this document supports which of the following conclusions?A. German Americans’ primary loyalty was to their country of origin, not their country of residence.
B. Most Germans living in America in the 1910s were immigrants who had not yet become naturalized citizens.
C. Columbia Gramophone Company had no concerns about marketing German music to German Americans in 1915.
D. Unlike most immigrant groups, German Americans were convinced that their culture was superior to that of other groups.

Question 2

What did C. J. Hexamer’s 1915 speech in Milwaukee (source 2) reveal about his views?A. Hexamer believed that German culture was superior to American culture, and he resisted assimilation.
B. Although he had emigrated, Hexamer was still loyal to the German government and disloyal to the United States.
C. Hexamer had come to the United States with the express intention of organizing other Germans to take over the country.
D. Like many other German Americans, Hexamer believed that Germans were a superior race destined to control the world.

Question 3

When the Senate Judiciary Committee cited Hexamer’s speech during its 1918 investigation of the German American community, it most likely saw it as evidence of German Americans’A. pride in their ethnic heritage.
B. continuing attachment to their ethnic culture.
C. lack of political loyalty to the United States.
D. intention to return to their homeland.

Question 4

What does source 4, the cartoon “Lager Uber Alles,” suggest about the relationship between World War I and the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment?A. German Americans’ support for prohibition grew dramatically during the war.
B. Americans came to support prohibition during the war because beer was a German drink.
C. By associating Germany with liquor, temperance advocates finally achieved political success.
D. German Americans’ resistance to prohibition solidified anti-German attitudes in the United States.

Question 5

What do sources 6 and 7 reveal about how German Americans responded to the growing anti-German attitudes in the United States during World War I?A. Most German Americans stood firm and refused to renounce their ethnic ties and culture.
B. Many German Americans concealed their ethnic ties and professed their patriotism.
C. Resentful of mistreatment in the United States, many Germans Americans repatriated to Germany.
D. Eager to prove their loyalty, German Americans often joined in anti-German violence.