1920s & 1930s America

After the Russian Revolution, 1920s America experienced a _____ scare, or fear of Communism.

• Blue

• Teal

• Orange

• Red

Although many just wanted basic safety, reasonable hours, and a minimum wage, striking workers were often accused of being ________

• Republicans

• Traitors

• Anarchists

• Immigrants

True/False: Workers in the 1920s and 1930s continued the tactics of strikes like workers during the Progressive Era.

• True

• False

What is true about both the Sacco and Vanzetti AND Scopes Monkey trials?

• They showed the swift and effective use of our justice system.

• The demonstrated a turn towards fundamentalism and push against the quickly changing society in the 1920s.

• They showed how immigrants were welcomed into 1920s society.

• They showed the pushback against new scientific technologies.

The Volstead Act enforced the _____ Amendment, prohibiting the sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol.

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

The Immigration Act of 1924 used this to limit immigrants coming from Eastern Europe (those perceived as Communists and anarchists).

• Quotas

• Treaties

• Laws

• Mergers

Which of the following is NOT true about the economy after WWI?

• 4 million soldiers returned to the workforce.

• Many women left wartime jobs to return to the home.

• Farming was booming.

• There was a high cost of living.

Which of the following is NOT a Republican President of the 1920s?

• Calvin Coolidge

• FDR

• Warren G. Harding

• Herbert Hoover

The "hands-off" economic policies of the Republican Presidents that allowed businesses to grow at the expense of workers with little government interference were described as ____.

• Mergers

• Pro-Union

• Laissez-Faire

• Consumerism

Henry Ford was able to apply which two (choose two answers) of the following tactics for efficient manufacturing of the automobile.

• Assembly Line

• Rugged Individualism

• Scientific Management

• Laissez-Faire

• Mergers