4.1-Roaring Twenties and Social Changes

The _________________________ ________________________ of African Americans to northern cities heightened racial tensions due to increased competition for jobs, housing, and public services.

• Great Wall

• Trail of Tears

• Great Migration

• Manifest Destiny

Why did African Americans migrate to the Northern cities in the last decades of the 19th century and early 20th century. (Select all that apply)

• enforcement of Jim Crow legislation

• racial intolerance and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan

• believe that it was their destiny to live in the north

• lynchings and threats of racial violence

An increase in immigration to the United States from _________________ and ________________ Europe preceded World War I

• northern and western

• southern and western

• northern and eastern

• southern and eastern

Nativism is defined as

• women's suffrage

• the believe that native born Americans were better than immigrants coming to the US.

• banned the manufacture and distribution of alcoholic beverages.

Nativism after the war was reflected in the passage of immigration ___________________.

• Volstead Law

• prohibition laws

• Jim Crow laws

• quota laws

Intolerance toward immigrants, Catholics, and Jews was exhibited by groups such as the ___________________.

• KKK

• Jim Crows

• Jackson Five

• Pogroms

One objective of the Immigration Act of 1924 was to reduce the number of immigrants entering the United States each year. This legislation reflects a pattern of intolerance that was present in the 1920s.

Which other development of the 1920s also reflects this pattern of intolerance?

• the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• the importation of liquor in violation of the Volstead Act

• the growth of African-American arts in the Harlem Renaissance

• the renewal of racial violence encouraged by the Ku Klux Klan

Following World War I, the United States experienced a period of technological advancement in transportation.

​Which advancement in transportation occurred during this period?

• introduction of the electric streetcar

• increased availability of the automobile

• decreased cost of commercial air travel.

• introduction of the transcontinental railroad

Select all of the consequences that resulted from the automobile being widely available to Americans.

• construction of international airports

• increased demand for gasoline

• increased use Of coal

• traffic congestion

• municipal budget deficits

Which change occurred in U.S. society during the 1920s?

• Steamboats replaced railroads as the primary mode of commercial transportation.

• Newspaper and magazine subscriptions decreased nationwide.

• Automobile production and ownership increased significantly.

• The cost of commercial flights sharply declined.