1920s Review

Which of these describes the Teapot Dome scandal?

• President Grant hired his friend to collect taxes and he stole tax money.

• President Harding's Secretary of the Interior took bribes to lease oil-rich land

• President Coolidge insulted the King of England by refusing to serve tea.

• A. Mitchell Palmer raided homes and businesses searching for "reds"

What effect did Teapot dome have on trust in government?

• Increased it

• Decreased it

What was the Ohio Gang?

• Harding's poker friends he chose for his cabinet

• Al Capone's gang

• An illegal gambling ring

• A group of bootleggers

There was a recession after WWI due to which of the following?

• The transition from producing war goods to consumer goods

• There was less demand for workers after the war

• Both of these

What is laissez-faire?

• Socialism

• Government heavily regulating business

• Communism

• Government not interfering with business

A Red Scare is a period of paranoid fear about

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• A Mixed Economy

Which of these describes the Palmer Raids?

• The Attorney General conducted unconstitutional raids of suspected radicals

• Palmer led American troops into battle in WWI

• A senator influenced the U. S. not to sign the Treaty of Versailles

• The Attorney General raided speakeasies during Prohibition

What groups were targeted by the new KKK?

• African Americans

• Jewish Americans

• Catholic Americans

• All of these

The immigration laws of the 1920s were aimed at limiting immigration of which groups?

• People from England

• People from France

• Anyone who was not from Northern or Western Europe

• People from Germany

What is Eugenics?

• A false science that aimed to improve humanity through selective breeding

• An extension of the theory of evolution

• A movement to give equal rights to all Americans

• None of these