Political and Social Change in the Postwar United States

Why did the United States adopt a strict isolationist sentiment

regarding foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

• Americans remembered World War I as a time of loss and believed they were needlessly dragged into it.

• The United States wanted to establish military bases in Europe to strengthen its global presence.

• Americans were eager to support European nations in their postwar rebuilding efforts.

• The United States wanted to focus on building stronger trade relations with Asia.

Why are the people in the photograph gathered?

• to demand better wages and working conditions due to economic challenges and inflation

• to support the influx of immigrants arriving in the United States

• to oppose the formation of labor unions and their influence

• to protest against the war and its outcomes

What was the effect of the influenza pandemic of 1918 on the global population?

• The flu spread rapidly due to crowded wartime conditions and overwhelmed hospitals, leading to millions of deaths worldwide

• The flu primarily affected only the elderly population, leaving younger generations unharmed

• The pandemic was easily contained and had minimal impact on the global population.

• Only soldiers returning from battlefields were affected by the virus, sparing civilians.

Which claims does this map support?

Select the two correct answers

• African American people from Louisiana mostly moved to cities in Michigan.

• African American people from Georgia mostly moved to cities on the East Coast of the United States

• Most destination cities during the Great Migration were in the western parts of the United States

• The Great Migration was a movement of African American people from southern states mostly to northern cities.

• The Great Migration was a movement of African American people from northern cities to southern states

What was a primary reason for the discontent with Czar Nicholas II’s rule in Russia before World War I?

• The czar was promoting communist ideologies.

• The czar was focused on expanding Russia’s territories

• The czar was actively supporting the peasants and workers.

• The czar was largely unresponsive to the pleas of peasants and workers facing hunger and poverty

Why is anarchy represented as a fire in this cartoon?

• to symbolize the rapid spread and destructive nature of anarchy

• to represent the warmth and comfort anarchy brings to society

• to indicate that anarchy was a fleeting and temporary issue

• to show that anarchy was a source of light and guidance

“Dear Old Friend: . . . I thought I would write you a few . . . facts of the present condition

of the north. . . . People are coming here every day and are finding employment. Nothing

here but money and it is not hard to get. . . . I have children in school every day with the white children.”

What can be inferred about the experiences of this African American

migrant from Alabama after moving to Chicago in 1917?

• The migrant found Chicago to be a place of economic opportunity and observed integrated schooling.

• The migrant regretted their decision to move to the North due to racial tensions

• The migrant struggled to find employment and faced economic hardships.

• The migrant observed clear racial segregation in schools.

“Like a prairie-fire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order a year ago. . . . Robbery, not war, is the ideal of communism. . . . Upon these two basic certainties, first that the ‘Reds’ were criminal aliens and secondly that the American Government must prevent crime, it was decided that there could be no nice distinctions drawn between the theoretical ideals of the radicals and their actual violations of our national laws. . . . It is my belief that while they have stirred discontent in our midst . . . we can get rid of them! and not until we have done so shall we have removed the menace of Bolshevism for good.”

Based on the excerpt, how did the author view the influence of the “Reds,” or communists, in America?

• as a positive force for change and progress

• as a minor inconvenience that would soon fade away

• as a neutral movement that had both good and bad elements

• as a dangerous threat that was undermining American institutions and values

What did the author believe was the primary ideal of communism?

• equality and justice

• peaceful coexistence

• economic prosperity for all

• robbery and criminal behavior

“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normality; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”

What does Warren G. Harding emphasize as America’s need in his “Return to Normalcy” speech?

• America requires aggressive approaches to solve its problems.

• America needs to engage in heroic actions and revolutionary changes.

• America should focus on dramatic experiments and international engagements.

• America needs healing and a focus on national stability rather than international involvement.