US The Roaring Twenties

SS.912.A.5.3

What did the rejection of the League of Nations, the higher tariffs imposed by the Fordney-McCumber Act, and the Emergency Quota Act all point to during the early 1920s?

• increasing militarism

• increasing isolationism

• increasing imperialism

• increasing internationalism

SS.912.A.5.1

What was the primary cause of the changes to the unemployment rate in the US in 1920 and 1921?

• the effects of demobilization

• the impact of the "Red Scare"

• the passage of the Emergency Quota Act

• the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War

SS.912.A.5.2

Which event do these newspapers describe?

• Cold War

• Red Scare

• Prohibition

• Great Migration

SS.912.A.5.2

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• The land of opportunity is not for Russian immigrants.

• If an alien is from Latin America, he or she can be deported.

• Packing vicious aliens like sardines is a serious vioation of human rights.

• Dangerous Communists and anarchists should be sent out of the country.

SS.912.A.5.10

Women had many new experiences as a result of World War I, including working at new jobs, wearing new fashions, and acting more independently. What other new change came to women just after World War I?

• the right to vote

• the right to drink

• equal pay for equal work

• the right to serve in military combat

SS.912.A.5.10

Why was there racial unrest in Northern cities after World War I?

• African Americans had been given the right to vote for the first time.

• African-American baseball players were being allowed to play on previously all-white teams.

• The arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Eastern Europe caused tensions with African Americans.

• The migration of African Americans and returning African-American veteran had created greater competition for jobs and housing.

SS.912.A.5.9

Which best describes the activities of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s?

• successfully achieved control of both the Congress and the Presidency

• assisted Marcus Garvey in transporting African Americans "back to Africa"

• were mainly directed at preventing African Americans from voting in the South

• promoted anti-immigrant, anti-African-American, anti-Catholic, and anti-Jewish sentiments

SS.912.A.5.5

What did the Washington Naval Conference, the Nine-Power Treaty, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact have in common?

• They were attempts at promoting world peace without the League of Nations.

• They created secret alliances between former Allied and Central Powers.

• They were a series of naval disarmament treaties involving the Allied Powers of World War I.

• They were disarmament treaties that limited the number of tanks, use of poison gas, and airplanes.

SS.912.A.5.8

What do the philosophies of these three African-American leaders suggest?

• African Americans believed that racial equality could not be achieved in the United States.

• Only Booker T. Washington felt that whites would accept African Americans as equals.

• Conditions were generally acceptable to the African-American community as they were.

• Frustrations with continuing inequality led African Americans to fight discrimination in different ways.

SS.912.A.5.6

What did African-American writers, artists, and musicians hope to achieve during the Harlem Renaissance?

• to display their ability as conscientious workers in the workplace

• to show that the pursuit of material success can often lead to tragedy

• to demonstrate that African Americans could produce great works of literature and art

• to reveal that conditions for African Americans in the South were almost as bad as in the North