Unit 5 Roaring 20s

Use the information below to answer the question.

In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the Democratic nomination for president and campaigned on a platform to help “the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”

Which group was President Roosevelt discussing?

• returning soldiers

• unemployed people

• minorities who had few civil rights

• stock owners who sustained heavy losses

Use the list below to answer the question.

•Invisible Man: novel by Ralph Ellison

•“I, Too”: poem by Langston Hughes

•“The Migration Series”: paintings by Jacob Lawrence

What is the central theme of the works of these artists?

• failure of society to embrace the value of individualism

• lack of legal protection for minority voting rights

• concerns about the cultural losses of immigrants

• issues of social inequality for minority citizens

In early 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt submitted to Congress a “Judicial Procedures Reform Bill” which would increase the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.

What was President Roosevelt’s motivation for submitting this plan?

• He opposed rulings that declared New Deal legislation unconstitutional.

• He wanted to demonstrate political support for the principle of rule of law.

• He objected to decisions that weakened strategic relations with Great Britain.

• He was committed to uphold the governmental principle of separation of powers.

Which one of the following statements about the New Deal’s impact on the federal government is NOT true?

• The federal government introduced state-supported health care insurance.

• The federal government provided pensions to retirees.

• The federal government insured bank deposits.

• The federal government was given the authority to regulate the stock market.

The list below describes the literary trends MOSTassociated with the

• Rejected the idealism that inspired U.S. entry into World War I• Sense of moral loss and aimlessness• Criticized culture though illusions of happiness

• Harlem Renaissance.

• Chicano Mural Movement.

• Lost Generation.

• Beat Movement.

Use the information below to complete the sentence.

The Johnson Immigrant Quota Act of 1921 established a quota limiting the annual immigration rates of certain ethnic groups. This quota stated that immigration totals could not exceed 3 percent more than those living in the United States in 1910. This law, passed by Republicans, affected certain groups of people who would have likely voted for Democratic candidates.

• prevent economic downturns.

• gain political support.

• revitalize urban areas.

• regulate business practices

How did farmers such as Lawrence Svobida respond to the conditions described in this excerpt?

When I knew that my crop was [permanently] gone I experienced a deathly feeling. . . . My dreams and ambitions had been [disregarded] by nature. . . . The very desire to make a success of my life was gone. . . . Fate had dealt me a cruel blow. . . .

—Lawrence Svobida, Farming the Dust Bowl

• by moving west to seek alternative employment

• by organizing new sharecropping agreements

• by establishing farm unions to demand relief

• by adopting new agricultural techniques

Almost like a plough breaking the plains, the automobile transformed cities. “The car has reshaped the nation’s landscape,” an observer noted, “making it virtually unrecognizable from the unpaved version of the previous century.”

—“The Automobile Shapes the City,” Automobile in American Life and Society, Martin V. Melosi, 2004

Which statement is supported by this excerpt

• Need for public parks decreased.

• Decline of downtown neighborhoods began.

• Infrastructure was expanded through roads.

• Demand for public transportation increased.

• Automobile ownership nearly tripled during the 1920s.• Vacuum cleaners and washing machines transformed housework.• Radios and phonographs provided entertainment in the home.

Which aspect of 1920s American culture is illustrated by this list?

• a decline in American-made products replaced by imported goods

• a rise in the standard of living brought on by growing consumerism

• the increasing number of women employed in high-paying jobs

• the unequal distribution of wealth between regions of the United States

The whole line of my political thought has always been that America must face the time when the whole country would shoulder the obligation which it owes to every child born on earth – that is, a fair chance to life, liberty, and happiness. —Share Our Wealth, Huey Long, 1934

Which quotation expresses the same idea as the one described in the excerpt?

• As society becomes more civilized, Government—national, State and local government—is called on to assume more obligations to its citizens.

  —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 21, 1936

• I believe in liberty of conscience and liberty of education, not permitting the state to dictate . . . my chosen avocation in life.

  
  

  —Father Charles Coughlin, November 11, 1932

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. . . . They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  —President Calvin Coolidge, January 17, 1925

• It does not follow . . . that we must turn to a state controlled or state directed social or economic system in order to cure our troubles.

  —President Herbert Hoover, August 11, 1932