Politics of the Roaring Twenties

Chapter 12 Study Guide Politics of the Roaring Twenties

1. Because Americans wanted life to go back to “normal,” which of the following was a trend in the United States after World War I?

2. In the Red Scare of 1919-1920 Americans were anxious and afraid about:

3. According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their 1848 book The Communist Manifesto, communists believe that:

4. Describes communism as it actually existed in the Soviet Union after World War 1?

5. Why did Americans fear communism after World War 1?

6. The American public’s negative reaction to the labor strikes in the 1920s was most closely tied to the?

7. Why did the Governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, say that the Boston police did not have the right to strike?

8. Which strike became violent, resulting in the beatings and even deaths of some of the striking workers?

9. What union leader helped the coal miners win higher wages from their strike?

10. In the three major strikes that we studied in class, the striking workers wanted:

11. In the 1920s, membership in the Communist Party in the United States grew to: 12. What was the government’s plan, created by the Attorney General, to find political radicals (communists, socialists, and anarchists) called?

13. The antiradical division, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, that was created in the 1920s to find political radicals is now the:

14. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) was created to help ______who were arrested during the Red Scare.

15. After World War 1, federal agents uncovered ______that communists were planning a revolution to turn America into a communist nation.

16. Because of the fear of foreigners in the 1920s, the United States for the first time limited the number of immigrants from:

17. The National Origins Act of 1924 deliberately used the 1890 census to base quotas on to decrease the number of immigrants coming from:

18. Today U.S. immigration laws are no longer based on a______like they were in the 1920s.

19. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan had most political success in the ______.

20. During the 1920s the members of the Ku Klux Klan felt that they were protecting “______.”

21. In the 1920s which groups were the Ku Klux Klan not against?

22. What was a reason the Ku Klux Klan declined in power by the end of the 1920s?

23. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of: 24. What was the evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti?

25. There were worldwide protests and demonstrations ______Sacco and Vanzetti because many people felt that the two men did not get a fair trial.

26. Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty and sentenced to death largely because they were:

27. In his official last public words, Vanzetti said that he felt his death was a triumph because:

28. The Presidential election of 1920 was the first one in which______could vote.

29. Name some facts about the Presidential election of 1920?

30. In which city did the first commercial radio broadcast take place?

31. Warren G. Harding won the 1920 Presidential election in a landslide because he believed that the federal government should:

32. Explain the Republican Formula:

33. The ______is the first time powerful nations agreed to disarmament.

34. Under the Dawes Plan, the United States prevented a war by loaning money to what country to help pay off war debts? 35. President Harding is considered by historians to be one of the ______Presidents in American history.

36. The personal friends that President Harding put in his cabinet and “kept him walking the floors at night” were known as the:

37. In the Teapot Dome Scandal Secretary of Interior Albert Fall ______in exchange for kickbacks (getting part of the money).

38. The Teapot Dome Scandal was the first time in American history a ______was convicted of a felony and sent to prison.

39. During President Calvin Coolidge’s administration the American economy:

40. President Calvin believed that business performed best when the federal government ______, which is why he vetoed a lot of bills.

41. One of President Coolidge’s most famous quotes, which reflected his political philosophy, is “The business of America is ______.”

42. The nations that signed the Kellog-Briand Pact promised:

43. What was the problem with the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

44. Although President Coolidge was a popular President while he was in office, he is usually ranked as one of the worst Presidents because:

45. Henry Ford made the Model-T more affordable because of his use of the ______

46. Henry Ford was considered revolutionary as an employer because he:

47. How did the automobile transform America?

48. The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was:

49. Charles Lindbergh became the first person to:

50. Advertising in the 1920s focused on convincing Americans that luxuries, like electrical appliances, were actually______.