1920s Quiz Checkpoint

The U.S. government policies that increased isolationism.

• Rejection of the League of Nations

• tariffs passed by the Fordney-McCumber Act

• Emergency Quota Act

• Treaty of Versailles

What was the primary cause of the changes to the unemployment rate in the United States from 1914 to 1921?

• the effects of demobilization

• the impact of the Red Scare

• the passage of the Emergency Quota Act

• the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War

Women had new experiences as a result of World War I, including new jobs and new fashions. What other new change came to women after World War I?

• the right to vote

• the right to drink

• equal pay for equal work

• the right to serve in military combat

The amount of agricultural exports decreased in the 1920s. What was the one impact of this change?

• US government purchased the agricultural surplus from farmers

• farmers did not generally participate in the prosperity of the 1920s

• speculators bought up American farmland at inexpensive prices

• local food prices remained high because of domestic land

Which groups did not generally participate in the prosperity of the 1920s?

• manufacturers and real estate developers

• stock brokers and automobile workers

• bankers and construction workers

• minorities and railroad workers

Why was there racial unrest in the Northern cities during the 1920s?

• African Americans had been given the right to vote for the first time

• African American baseball players were being allowed to play on previously all -white teams

• the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Europe caused tensions with African Americans

• the migration of African Americans and returning African-American veterans had created greater competition for jobs and housing.

These policies spurred economic growth in and prosperity

• pro-business policies and higher tariffs

• lower taxes for the wealthy

• minimal government interference in business activities

• higher taxes anon lower tariffs

Group that was anti-immigrant, anti- African American, anti-Catholic, and anti=Jewish during the 1920s.

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

• NAACP

• Communists

• Anarchists

U.S. policies to promote peace without the League of Nations

• Washington Naval Conference

• Nine-Power Treaty

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Fordney McCumber Act

Frustrations with inequality led these men to fight discrimination in different ways

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Marcus Garvey

• Booker T. Washington

• Langston Hughes