The Roaring Twenties

After World War I, President Harding's call for a "return to normalcy" meant a return to:

• the League of Nations

• isolationist foreign policies

• the British Empire

• involvement in all world affairs

The growth of the automobile industry after WWI shaped the U.S. economy by:

• Limiting factory jobs for assembly line workers

• Encouraging government control of resources

• Stimulating the development of other related industries

• Increasing railroad use

Installment buying impacted the economic shape of the 1920s because it:

• limited immigration

• required safer working conditions in factories

• limited trade with European nations

• gave Americans access to goods they could not otherwise afford

Buying stocks on margin was dangerous because if an investor could no longer pay for the stock, the company:

• does not get the full investment it needs to grow

• Risks being unable to survive

• may be unable to pay its costs of operation

• all of the above

Which amendment banned the production, sale and consumption of alcohol in the U.S.?

• 18th

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

What impact did the 18th amendment have on society?

• Gave women the right to vote

• led to an increase in violence and criminal activity

• banned segregation

• abolished prohibition

As a result of the Great Migration, what region of the United States saw a significant population growth in the 1920s?

• The North

• The South

• The West

• The East

The popular 1920's belief that America should be preserved only for those white citizens who were born here was known as:

• urbanization

• cultural diffusion

• nativism

• popular sovereignty

All of the followed show a fear that Americans had toward immigrants in the 1920s EXCEPT FOR:

• the popularity of the KKK

• the power of the Women's Christian Temperance Union

• The Red Scare

• The passage of the Emergency Quota Act

What law was passed in an effort to limit immigration in the U.S.?

• The Volstead Act

• The Emergency Quota Act

• the 21st Amendment

• the Sacco-Vanzetti Declaration