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2.3 and 2.4 The Roaring 20's

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The foreign policy of the United States following WWI was...

a)

militarism

b)

interventionism

c)

isolationism

d)

imperialism

2.

What did the US economy experience following the end of WWI

a)

stagflation

b)

deflation

c)

inflation

d)

hyperinflation

3.

What was the Washington Naval Conference

a)

a conference to discuss the growth of the US navy

b)

A conference to discuss a punishment for Germany

c)

none of the above

d)

a conference to discuss the disarmament of world navies to prevent future World Wars

4.

What was the main purpose of the US implementing protective tariffs

a)

to increase crop profits

b)

to support foreign producers

c)

to support domestic producers

d)

to ease US dependence of foreign goods

5.

After WWI, the agricultural tariffs on crop exports lead to falling prices and the closure of farms. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

6.

The US invited major world powers to create treaties at the Washington Naval Conference as a way to...

a)

promote peace without having to join the league of nations

b)

to disarm all nations

c)

to create military alliances

d)

to build strong militaries

7.

The Kellogg Briand Pact was...

a)

a wholesome cereal

b)

a promise to prevent future wars

c)

a plan to expand the Kellogg company

d)

a plan to expand to Latin America

8.

How did the US attempt reach the goal of international peace?

a)

promoting globalization

b)

joining the League of Nations

c)

signing a pact to outlaw armed conflict

d)

joining NATO

9.

What caused a decreased production of consumer goods, and decreased demand for crops?

a)

The Red Scare

b)

The Emergency Tariff Act

c)

The Depression of 1920-1921

d)

The Economic Boom of 1920-1929

10.

What is demobilization

a)

soldiers leaving war

b)

soldiers going into war

c)

both of these

d)

none of these

11.

What caused the 14 month economic depression of 1920-1921?

a)

lack of trade

b)

rising prices of domestics goods

c)

demobilization of soldiers and a lack of jobs

d)

antiwar protests

12.

Langston Hughes was a poet during the

a)

The Great Migration

b)

The Italian Renaissance

c)

The Harlem Renaissance

d)

The Lost Generation

13.

The Bolshevik Revolution caused Americans to enter an era known as...

a)

The Prohibition

b)

The Great Migration

c)

The Red Scare

d)

The Cold War

14.

The case of Sacco and Venzetti demonstrated what about Americans?

a)

They believe immigrants were against the American way of life

b)

The welcome immigrants

c)

They were found to innocent by Catholic Americans

d)

That all people no matter their immigration status will receive a fair trial.

15.

The Palmer Raids were...

a)

a gov't raid to arrest and deport suspected capitalist

b)

a way to place quotas on German and Russian Americans

c)

a place to buy palm trees

d)

a gov't raid to arrest and deport suspected communist and anarchist

16.

Flappers, The Scopes Trial, the Volstead act were all...

a)

signs of social tension of traditional and modern values

b)

signs that move gov't intervention was needed

c)

a sign that communism was going to overtake America

d)

things that lead to the prohibition

17.

Which best describes the goals of Booker T Washington, W.E.B Dubois, and Marcus Garvey?

a)

All 3 men did not believe that racial equality would ever be possible

b)

Marcus Garvey was the only one that wanted intergration

c)

Washington and Dubois both wanted racial separation

d)

All 3 men has different philosophies to fight for equality

18.

In the 1920s the KKK

a)

assisted Garvey in the Back to Africa Movement

b)

circumvented their 15th amendment rights

c)

Its membership reached lost to 5 million memebers

d)

faded out

19.

The Declaration of sentiments, and the Seneca Falls Convention, Womens effort in WWI all lead to...

a)

the creation of a fair minimum wage

b)

the ratification of the 19th amendment

c)

the end of child labor

d)

the ratification of the 13th amendment.

20.

The 19th amendment...

a)

gave women of all races the right to vote

b)

gave all men of all races the right to vote

c)

gave the right to vote to poor white men

d)

ended slavery

21.

The KKK was a group against

a)

African Americans only

b)

Jews and Catholics

c)

African Americans, Catholics, Jews and Immigrants

d)

WASPS

22.

The Ocoee Massacre and the Rosewood massacre were both evidence of....

a)

the growing strength of the KKK in the south and racial violence

b)

racial tensions in the north

c)

lack of employment

d)

racism only existed in Florida.

23.

Garvey advocated for all of the following EXCEPT

a)

separation/ segregation from whites

b)

black independence

c)

integration

d)

Back to Africa Movement

24.

Why did Dubois begin the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

a)

abolition and temperance

b)

racism and prejudice

c)

nationalism and patriotism

d)

feminism and discrimination

25.

The Fundamentalist Movement played a major role in...

a)

The Palmer Raids

b)

The Red Scare

c)

The Washington Naval Conference

d)

The Scopes Trial

26.

What were the two groups who had opposing values in the 1920s?

a)

fundamentalist and modernist

b)

christians and jews

c)

the flappers and bootleggers

d)

Nationalists and isolationist

27.

Fundamentalist were against the teachings of Evolution because...

a)

it went against science

b)

it went about Christian beliefs

c)

it went against the laws of mathematics

d)

it went against modern values

28.

The Scopes Trial...

a)

revealed the tension between modernist and fundamentalist

b)

was an easy case

c)

was a trial about religious freedom

d)

none of the above