Chp. 10-12 Test Review

What is the name for "a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs."

• Nativism

• Isolationism

• New Deal

• Progressive

What caused unemployment after WWI?

• Soldiers returning home meant an excess of laborers

• Anti-immigration sentiment was high

• More people wanted goods

• Workers were striking for higher wages.

Following WWI, the US experienced a period of technological advancement in transportation. Which advancement in transportation occurred during this period?

• introduction of the electric streetcar

• increased availability of the automobile

• decreased cost of commercial air travel

• introduction of the transcontinental railroad

What were the Palmer Raids meant to uncover?

• Anarchists

• Communists

• Fascists

• Socialists

Why were the twenties "Roaring"?

• The economy was failing

• There was a decline in technological advancements

• American culture was full of excitement

• Social norms were staying the same

Why did Harlem become a thriving neighborhood of African American artists?

• The area was known for its dull nightlife.

• The area was home to no jazz clubs.

• The area was not a thriving neighborhood for art.

• many African Americans settled there in the Great Migration

What was the name used for arrest and deportation of radical leftists, communists, and especially anarchists. The arrests mostly only happened to immigrants. This happened during the Red Scare.

• Demobilization

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Palmer Raids

After Russia fell to Communism during WWI; _______________ swept across America.

• Dust bowl
• Support of communism
• Poverty
• Red Scare

How did Prohibition support the spread of organized crime?

• People who wanted to drink relied on illegal speakeasies and booteggers

• Prohibition decreased the demand for smuggled goods

• Prohibition led to increased law enforcement

• Prohibition caused a rise in the production of homemade alcohol

Who was the person put in charge of the Palmer Raids to fight against radicals during the Red Scare after World War 1. He helped create a series of raids on alleged radical centers throughout the country.

• Andrew Wilson

• J. Edgar Hoover

• Cool Harding