1920s Domestic Issues

The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized cities to seek economic opportunities is called the -

• Great Migration

• Harlem Renaissance

• Civil Right Movement

• Gold Rush

How did political scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal impact the United States?

• Distrust for the Government Grew

• People Trusted the Government more

• People protested the goverment

• The government became more trustful

What was a major factor leading to the erosion of regional cultural differences in the 1920s?

• development of television

• growing popularity of radio and motion pictures

• publication of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis

• expansion of air travel after Charles Lindbergh’s flight

During the 1920s, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate that –

• cultural values were similar between urban and rural Americans

• popular support for international involvement was increasing

• nativist opinions were on the rise

• public support for limiting immigration was declining

Politicians who believed in the philosophy of Eugenics favored –

• Equality of living for the mentally ill

• Freedom to reproduce

• No limits on marriage

• Racial segregation

The cartoon above reflects the American public’s opinion that –

• immigration quotas respected the country’s history while limiting the need for more labor.

• the government must protect Americans from dangerous immigrants.

• more workers were needed to produce consumer goods.

• U.S. economic prosperity was dependent on foreign labor

Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because --

• assimilation programs in the United States had been unsuccessful

• economic decline had increased the competition for jobs

• communists were infiltrating the United States

• political machines had too much power in urban areas

Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that --

• people in lower classes were not capable of economic success

• immigration weakened national unity

• the government should take responsibility for the well-being of people

• poverty could be eradicated through increased economic regulation

Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that --

• people in lower classes were not capable of economic success

• immigration weakened national unity

• the government should take responsibility for the well-being of people

• poverty could be eradicated through increased economic regulation

Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer conducted a series of raids...The most spectacular of the "Palmer raids" occurred in January 1920.

-- "Start-up of the Department and World War 1, 1913-1921, " U.S. Department of Labor, www.dol.gov (accessed November 21, 2013)

What was the primary reason for the described in this excerpt?

• To prevent workers from joining labor organizations

• To block civil rights advocates from staging public protests

• To suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges

• To halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals