WorksheetsRoaring 20s Review Questions
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which phrase completes the diagram?
a return to full employment
an increase in the wages of industrial workers
an economic boom as soldiers return from battlefields in Europe
a temporary depression as producers shift from wartime to peacetime production
Based on the diagram, which conclusion can be made about the international flow of funds in this period?
German prosperity fueled European growth in the early 1920s.
American prosperity helped to secure European stability in the early 1920s.
French public opinion opposed the collection of reparations from Germany as unjust.
The close connection between the American and European economies prevented U.S. leaders from raising tariffs.
Based on the cartoon, with which statement would the cartoonist have most likely agreed?
The United States pursued an internationalist course in the 1920s.
American leaders were wrong to raise U.S. tariffs and restrict immigration.
U.S. intervention in World War I was a tragic mistake that should not be repeated.
Although the United States did not join the League of Nations, other nations depended on its policies.
How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1927 promote international peace?
Nations pledged to create a League of Nations.
France and Britain excused Germany from paying reparations.
Fifteen nations agreed to give up war as an instrument of policy.
The five naval powers agreed to limit the number of their warships.
What was a reason for American leaders to promote world peace by launching new initiatives in the 1920s?
Membership in the League of Nations was becoming too costly.
Nazi Germany was threatening the balance of power in Europe.
Americans wanted to avoid a repetition of the high costs of World War I.
Many American voters no longer felt their country was protected by the oceans.
What was the primary objective of this treaty?
The total capital ship replacement tonnage of each of the Contracting Powers shall not exceed in standard displacement, for the United States 525,000 tons (533,400 metric tons); for the British Empire 525,000 tons (533,400 metric tons); for France 175,000 tons (177,800 metric tons); for Italy 175,000 tons (177,800 metric tons); for Japan 315,000 tons (320,040 metric tons).
to maintain freedom of the seas
to promote open trade between different regions of the world
to limit the destructiveness of war by limiting the number of warships
to help the British police their vast empire without foreign interference
Refer to the diagram: Which phrase completes the diagram?
Red Scare
Prohibition
McCarthyism
House Committee on Un-American Activities
What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?
A) African Americans began migrating to Africa in large numbers.
B) African Americans limited their ambitions to vocational training.
C) African Americans successfully ended racial violence in Northern cities.
D) African Americans undermined racism through their cultural attainments.
Which African-American leader held these views?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Why was European immigration to the United States restricted in the 1920s?
There was no longer any available land or jobs for immigrants.
Earlier immigrants had not been able to assimilate into mainstream American culture.
Americans were prejudiced against the “New Immigrants” from Eastern and Southern Europe.
Americans wanted to provide more job opportunities to minorities already in the United States.
The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920s was an unintended consequence of which federal government action?
The taxation of imported luxury goods.
The deportation of suspected communist sympathizers.
The prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
The implementation of immigration restrictions.
Which amendment does the above poster reference? (SSUSH16b DOK 1)
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
20th Amendment
