Roaring 20s & Great Depression Review

After WWI, a “return to normalcy” meant:

• an end to isolationism

• a return to Prohibition

• return to life as it had been before WWI

• an end to US immigration

Presidents Harding and Coolidge believed that the prosperity of all Americans depended upon:

• the success of American businesses

• the importing of goods from foreign countries

• the passage of the 18th amendment

• an end to immigration restrictions

An increase in the number of gas stations, tourist cabins, and restaurants was a result of:

• the Harlem Renaissance

• Red Scare

• 19th Amendment

• the growing auto industry

In 1920, women won the right to:

• Equal pay

• join labor unions

• Work in Factories

• Vote

The Quota System was established to:

• stop anyone from leaving the United States

• increase immigration from Mexic

• set limits on immigration

• help foreigners assimilate more easily

“There were, Attorney General Palmer, asserted, 60,000 Communists at large – enough, if unchecked, to bring the republic down.” This quote expresses the fear which led to:

• Red Scare

• the alliance system

• Nativitism

• the return of the Ku Klux Klan

The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial and the actions of the KKK demonstrated that:

• Americans still blamed the Germans for WWI

• A strong fear of immigrants existed in America

• Less discrimination against African Americans existed in the North

• City people were more agreeable to change than farmers

Each of the following helped change the American way of life in the 1920s EXCEPT:

• Television

• Radio

• Automobile

• movies

The Charleston, jazz music, flappers, and flagpole sitting were all:

• outlawed during the 1920s 

• causes of the Great Depression

• brought to America by soldiers returning from WWI

• popular fads during the 1920s

A major factor helping to provide greater consumer goods to Americans in the 1920s was:

• the development of the internet

• the institution of the assembly line

• an increase in cars imported from Germany

• computers to speed up