1920s Review

Which are the following were post-WWI problems for the US?

• Spanish Flu

• The US experienced a backlash to the Great Migration

• Red Summer

  (Race Riots)

• The US experienced a wave of radical violence.

• Red Summer

  (Reaction to fears of Anarchists & socialists)

• The US population was sick of intervention

• Move toward isolationism rejection of League of Nations.

• The US population was sick of influenza.

Answer explanation

Use the image of the slide to help you.

Put the post-WWI war events in the order in which they occurred.

• Immigration Acts 1924

• Palmer Raids

• Red Scare

  (Series of bombings by radical anarchists)

• Rejection of many European Jews fleeing the Holocaust

• Russian Revolution

Answer explanation

1919 Red Scare, reaction ⇒ Palmer Raids ⇒ Immigration Acts 1924. Sacco & Vanzetti Trial, long-term not refuge from the Holocaust.

The flowering of African American art (Jazz) & literature in the 1920s is commonly known as?

Answer explanation

The question asks about the term for the flourishing of African American art and literature, particularly Jazz, in the 1920s. The correct answer is 'Harlem Renaissance'. This period is known for the explosion of creativity among African American artists and writers, centered in Harlem, New York.

Put the Presidents in order when they were in office.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  (Democrat)

• Calvin Coolidge (Republican)

• Warren G. Harding

  (Republican)

• Woodrow Wilson (Democrats)

• Herbert Hoover

  (Republican)

Answer explanation

Woodrow Wilson was President during WWI. Warren G. Haring promised a "return to normalcy" however he died at the end of his term leading to Calvin Coolidge. Hoover was an effect member of Harding & Coolidge's cabnets. Hoover would get blamed for the Great Depression leading the election of FDR.

Match the exceptions to US isolationism during the 1920s.

• Plan to prevent the naval arms race (another World War).

• Dawes Plan

• US bailout plan for Germany to help pay their reparations.

• Washington Naval Conference

• Proposed plan to outlaw the use of war.

• Kellogg - Briand Pact

Match the following

• Repeal of Prohibition Volstead Act

• 21st Amendment

• Prohibition Volstead Act

• 19th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage (Right to Vote)

• 18th Amendment

The following is a poem by Claude McKay: If we must die, let it be not like hogs. Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

• This poem is a reaction to the violence of the Red Summer

• This poem is a reaction to the Great Migration

• This poem is a reaction to the treatment of African American troops in WWI.

• This poem is a reaction to the Southern Sharecropping.

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was a symbolic battle between _________ and Progressivism (science). 

Answer explanation

The 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial was a symbolic battle between Fundamentalism and Progressivism (science). The trial highlighted the tension between religious beliefs and scientific advancements, with Fundamentalism representing the conservative religious viewpoint and Progressivism representing the scientific and modernist perspective.