US Mock Milestone 17-18a

Which event is the BEST example of the growing anti-immigrant sentiment that spread throughout the United States in the 1920s?

• the Scopes Trial

• the "Gentlemen's Agreement"

• the passage of the Volstead Act

• the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

In the decade following World War I, the women's movement in the United States focused mostly on

• social changes.

• political equality.

• ending prohibition.

• joining the military.

Levittown was an important part of what post-World War II issue?

• suburban sprawl

• nuclear pollution

• civil rights movement

• anti-Vietnam War protests

Following World War I many American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and John Steinbeck moved to Paris and other parts of Europe. This group of writers were worried that the U.S. had simply become a place to do business and make money and had failed to develop a cosmopolitan culture. In Europe they hoped to live in such a culture, and there they wrote extensively about the post-war world and its scramble to accumulate material goods.

Which term is associated with this group of writers?

• The Lost Generation

• Confessional Poetry

• Abstract Impessionism

• The Harlem Renaissance

Which of these would BEST describe an immediate effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?

• time became standardized

• agriculture worked longer hours

• railroad companies expanded routes

• longer factory hours for all workers

"I have witnessed not only at home but abroad the many failures of government in business. I have seen.. its undermining of the very instincts which carry our people forward to progress. I have witnessed the lack of advance, the lowered standards of living, the depressed spirits of people working under such a system....And what has been the result of the American system? Our country has become the land of opportunity to those born without inheritance, not merely because of the wealth of its resources and industry but because of this freedom of initiative and enterprise. Russia has natural resources equal to ours.... But she has not had the blessings of one hundred and fifty years of our form of government and our social system." Excerpt from President Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" speech in 1928

What does President Hoover imply as the reason why America's system was better than Russia's?

• socialism

• capitalism

• laissez-faire

• natural resources

The purpose of the 1964 Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi was

• to protest the escalation of the Vietnam War.

• to help and encourage blacks to become registered voters.

• to persuade the all state legislatures to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

• to force the University of Mississippi to allow African-Americans to attend classes.

Alexander Hamilton based much of his financial program on his belief that

• land was the most important source of wealth.

• speculation in government securities had to be prevented.

• the states should be discouraged from depending on the federal government.

• the success of the new government required the support of the upper class.

Which innovation had the GREATEST impact on westward migration immediately after the American Civil War?

• telephone

• electricity

• steam-powered boats

• transcontinental railroad

President Jimmy Carter offered amnesty in 1977 for

• draft evaders during the Vietnam War.

• “white-collar” business criminals.

• people who committed war crimes in the Vietnam War.

• those who were responsible for the Three Mile Island accident.