Fall 2021 AH2 Final Review

Which BEST explains the population shift from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s?

• The growing industrial economy created many factory jobs in the West.

• The new interstate highway system made travel to the West Coast easier.

• Government policies forced Native Americans to leave their reservations

• Drought conditions forced many families to leave their farms in search of employment.

Which group is most closely associated with the Great Migration?

• African American workers seeking jobs in the North

• former plantation owners escaping the effects of Reconstruction

• farming families escaping devastation of the Dust Bowl

• European immigrants moving to urban areas for industrial jobs

Which aspect of 1920s American culture is illustrated by automobile ownership tripling, vacuum cleaners and washing machines transforming housework, and radios/phonographs providing home entertainment?

• the unequal distribution of wealth between regions of the United States

• a rise in the standard of living brought on by growing consumerism

• the increasing number of women employed in high-paying jobs

• a decline in American-made products replaced by imported goods

Which conclusion is best supported by a decline in total U.S. wages and salaries during the Great Depression?

• The government allowed child labor so that families could earn more money.

• Women became the primary income earners in most American families.

• Large numbers of immigrant workers arrived to take jobs in the United States.

• American families found it increasingly difficult to maintain their standard of living.

Which event was an outcome of the Red Scare of the 1920s?

• exposure of the Teapot Dome scandal

• trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• ratification of Prohibition

• passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

In the post-World War I era, which event began as a U.S. government effort to stop the spread of a domestic communist threat?

• the Palmer Raids

• the passage of the Emergency Tariff Act

• the Scopes trial

• the passage of the Volstead Act

The return to an isolationist foreign policy was signified by which U.S. action following World War I?

• the rejection of the Treaty of Versailles

• the intervention of the military in Latin American affairs

• the passage of an agricultural tariff by the legislature

• the reduction of federal income tax rates

Which people were targeted by the “Palmer Raids” of 1919-1920?

• KKK

• Communists

• Bootleggers

• Deserters

Americans’ disillusionment over World War I led the United States government to adopt a policy of

• isolationism

• totalitarianism

• imperialism

• materialism

Which group of people is known as the “Lost Generation”?

• men who evaded the military draft during World War I

• scientists who developed alternative theories of the universe

• women who lost jobs to returning servicemen

• authors disillusioned by the experience of World War I