United States Between the Wars - ALE Review 1

All of the following were events during the 1919 and 1920 except

• influenza epidemic

• some factories slowed down or closed

• strikes and riots broke out

• Woodrow Wilson was re-elected

President Warren Harding was popular with American people because he

• tried to create harmony and a return to "normalcy"

• began a series of programs offering equal opportunity to all regardless of race

• took strong steps to enforce the prohibition of alcohol.

• moved to have the US join the League of Nations

Prohibition was implemented by passage of the

• 17th Amendment
• 18th Amendment
• 19th Amendment
• 21st Amendment

Al Capone gave this city a reputation of Corruption and Criminality.

• New York
• Boston
• St. Louis
• Chicago

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Prohibition created which one of the following?

• Reduction in crime.
• Reduction in alcohol related deaths
• Organized Crime.
• More money being made.

A major factor helping to provide more consumer goods for Americans in the 1920s was the

• development of sophisticated robots

• institution of large-scale assembly line production

• tremendous increase in imports of automobiles from the USSR

• use of computers to improve the speed of production

African Americans slowly moved north to work in factories.

• true

• false

All of the following groups were discriminated against in the 1920s except

• immigrants

• Catholics

• Jews

• soldiers

Which event DID NOT take place in the 1920s?

• The Palmer Raids arrested over 3,000 people accused of being communist

• The KKK grew in power and influence.

• African Americans faced segregation in the South and discrimination in the North.

• America joined the League of Nations.

The rebirth of African American arts and culture is known as:

• The Industrial Revolution
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Napoleonic Era
• Edwardian period

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