Roaring 20's

Harding's campaign promise

• help the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade

• improve economic growth by promoting unrestricted immigration

• refuse to allow the continuation of laissez-faire economic policies

• use diplomacy to establish alliances with other countries

Which of these resulted from Prohibition during the 1920s

• a decline in immigration rates

• a growing fear of communism

• the expansion of the consumer economy

• the rise of organized crime

The introduction of new practices benefited US businesses in what way?

• by decreasing exports

• by increasing protective tariffs

• preventing shortages of goods

• by increasing production of efficiency

Which events illustrates a cause and effect relationship

• high food prices - start of the Depression

• rebirth of KKK - formation of the Populist Movement

• Red Scare - demand for limits on immigration

• Sacco and Vanzetti case - ratification of the 19th Amendment

All of the following are characteristics of the 1920s EXCEPT

• world war followed by a short peace at the end of the 1920s

• international political isolation that continued throughout the decade

• increased nativist sentiment that rose throughout the decade

• economic prosperity followed by a sharp decline at the end of the decade

The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920s was an unintended result of which government action

• Prohibition

• Taxation on luxury goods

• deportation of suspected communist sympathizers

• implementation of immigration restrictions

The Roaring 20s were characterized by

• internment camps, rationing of goods, use of the A bomb

• installment plans, Prohibition and flappers

• bank failures, the New Deal and bread lines

• brinkmanship, McCarthyism, containment

Who encouraged black Americans to own their own businesses and started the Back to Africa movement

• Charles Lindberg

• Marcus Garvey

• William Jennings Bryan

• Warren G Harding

Which of the following BEST describes the impact of Henry Ford on America

• manufactured a product too expensive for the middle class

• altered the course of government foreign policy

• changed the method of mass production

• produced too many goods to keep prices high

The convictions and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s is an indication that

• the US responded to public opinion instead of trial evidence

• the US was dedicated to preserving the integrity of the judicial system

• the US was willing to address foreign ideas that contradicted national interests

• the US maintained nativist ideologies despite evidence that suggested the accused people's innocence