KC6: Boom or Bust (1920-1940)

What is the woman in this picture leaving to do?

• get a job
• dancing at a club
• cast a ballot on election day
• join the miliary

What does the term "REDS" refer to?

• anarchists 
• communists
• atheists
• capitalists 

What is the overall message of the poster?

• Women voting would lead to the collapse of the traditional household.
• Men would rather take care of their children than women would.
• Women are too irresponsible to be allowed to vote.
• Most men fully supported women's suffrage.

A. Mitchell Palmer wants all Russian aliens to be ________________.

• relocated into concentration camps
• imprisoned 
• forced to take loyalty oaths
• deported

In the 1920's, the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the increased membership in the Ku Klux Klan both resulted from:

• a fear of foreigners 
• defeat of immigration laws
• Prohibition movement
•  greater social freedom of Americans

Following World War I, the United States Government did all of the following EXCEPT:

• publicly condemn communism
• pass laws that restricted immigration
• isolate the U.S. from international conflicts.
• evenly distribute wealth amongst workers and management.

___________was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925 with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.

• John Scopes
• John Butler
• Nicola Sacco
• Eugene Debs

What was the long term significance of the Scopes Trial?

• Prevented African Americans from attending public schools 
• Banned the teaching of evolution in public schools 
• Made attending a communist meeting a crime
• Represented a shift from traditional to modern views

A contributing factor to Americans accumulating debt in the 1920's was______________________.

• expensive electricity 
• excessive foreign investment
• high priced petroleum
• installment buying

____________ was the development of African American culture in literature and art.

• Harlem Renaissance
• Civil Rights Movement 
• Women's suffrage
• Volstead Act