JPS US History Bootcamp

This 1924 cartoon satirizes a scandal that led to:

• widespread anger over excessive partisan politics.

• public frustration with government neglect of the working class.

• widespread dissatisfaction with a lack of economic development.

• public disappointment over revelations in government corruption.

How did the invention shown in this patent illustration affect industry?

• Businesses needed to hire skilled workers.

• Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.

• Machines needed to be repaired less frequently.

• Factories could extend working hours.

In 1937, Zora Neale Hurston published a novel titled, Their Eyes Were Watching God.   Which group would most likely support the overarching theme of Hurston's novel?

• Jim Crow lawyers

• isolationists

• 2. Knights of the White Camelia members

• feminists

What was the net effect of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?

• Other nations retaliated by placing huge tariffs on Americans products, making it difficult for American companies to sell their products overseas and making the economic depression worse.

• America was able to stabilize the postwar German economy, which enabled Germany to become a reliable partner in the Cold War confrontations with the Chinese.

• The American people began to purchase cheaper domestically-produced goods, which in turn led to a revitalized economy and a quick end to the economic depression of the 1930's.

• The American automobile industry collapsed due to the increase in the number of Americans buying cheaper Japanese automobiles.

According to the United States Department of State, Secretary Kellogg was “instrumental in the creation of the Paris Peace Pact (1928), a multilateral agreement outlawing offensive warfare.”  This action, along with many during the 1920s, provided an example that the United States government had returned to a/an __________ policy framework in terms of foreign affairs.

• isolationist

• interventionist

• imperialist

• globalist