SSUSH 16 & 17 Review Post WWI National Identity

Which amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?

• Twenty-first Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

The Red Scare following World War I was caused primarily by

• fear of communist infiltration of the United States.

• fear of airborne diseases.

• The Red Scare was caused by an increase in immigration from Eastern Europe.

• The Red Scare was caused by the spread of anti-American propaganda in Europe.

The runs on banks during the Great Depression worsened the country's economic situation because the bank runs

• caused overseas investors to worry about giving money to America.

• caused many banks to close and created an even greater shortage of money.

• caused the government to stop reimbursing currency for gold bullion.

• caused banking institutions to collect funds from the government.

The popularity of sports in the 1920s rose mainly because of

• the efforts and personality of Babe Ruth.

• an increase in leisure time of most American workers.

• Prohibition's effect on unifying the family.

• teams’ ability to fly from city to city.

New products such as refrigerators, washing machines and automobiles led to increased

• teen culture.

• education.

• consumerism.

• isolation.

The movie industry became a leading industry of the 1920s. Though the first movies were silent, in 1927 theater-goers enjoyed the first “talkie.” What does the growth of the movie industry indicate about this era?

Responses

• a conservative movement

• a time of prosperity

• a growing sense of nationalism

• a disinterest in radio

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

• by strengthening respect for the law

• by forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws

• by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

• by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other types of illegal activity

Who is generally considered the "Father" of the modern assembly line?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Ford

• Samuel Gompers

• Andrew Carnegie

The 1920s saw immense changes in popular culture because of the two new technologies of

• motion pictures & radios.

• telephones & telegraphs.

• microphones and antennas.

• phonographs and televisions.

Which of these is the BEST description of "Hoovervilles"?

• nickname for the department of Housing and Urban Development during the New Deal

• housing projects associated with poverty and were constructed in urban areas

• shantytowns in which homeless families lived during the Great Depression

• the first planned suburbs which were developed in the period after World War I