Bonus Quiz 8

What was the primary motivation behind the nativist movement?

• hostility toward immigrant workers

• the need to reduce overcrowding in northern cities

• conflicts with Native American Indians

• migration of African American families to northern cities

Between November 1919 and January 1920 federal officials arrested thousands of people suspected of radical beliefs in an action called the

• Palmer Raids

• Bolshevik directive

• Hoover's communist round up

• Wilsons Unamerican activities raids

Which group targeted African Americans, immigrants, Catholics and Jews?

• Ku Klux Klan

• Flappers

• Gangsters

• Fundamentalists

Sacco and Vanzetti were on trial for robbery and murder, but also for their

• membership in the Ku Klux Klan

• refusal to board the Buford

• political beliefs and ethnicity

• resistance to the leadership of John L. Lewis

Demobilization was

• the return of soldiers to the United States

• the transition from wartime to peacetime production

• when women took over many traditionally make jobs

• the rise of communism in the United States

What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920s?

• The Roaring 20s
• The Best of Times
• Harlem Renaissance

What amendment put prohibition into place?

• 2nd
• 16th
• 18th
• 21st

Who was elected president because he had a plan to pull America out of the Great Depression?

• William McKinley
• Woodrow Wilson
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Franklin D. Roosevelt

How did "bank runs" impact the American people during the Great Depression?

• Banks eventually ran out of money to loan, and people's life savings were gone.
• Banks made loans throughout the Great Depression, helping people pays bills until they could find work.
• Banks were able to people's deposits safe, but they could not loan out any more money.
• Banks were not at all involved in the Great Depression because people did not use them.

What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?

• Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban poverty.
• Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States.
• Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality.
• Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.