<p> Chapter 12 Study Guide Politics of the Roaring Twenties</p><p>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?</p><p>2. In the Red Scare of 1919-1920 Americans were anxious and afraid about:</p><p>3. According to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their 1848 book The Communist Manifesto, communists believe that:</p><p>4. Describes communism as it actually existed in the Soviet Union after World War 1?</p><p>5. Why did Americans fear communism after World War 1?</p><p>6. The American public’s negative reaction to the labor strikes in the 1920s was most closely tied to the?</p><p>7. Why did the Governor of Massachusetts, Calvin Coolidge, say that the Boston police did not have the right to strike?</p><p>8. Which strike became violent, resulting in the beatings and even deaths of some of the striking workers?</p><p>9. What union leader helped the coal miners win higher wages from their strike?</p><p>10. In the three major strikes that we studied in class, the striking workers wanted:</p><p>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?</p><p>13. The antiradical division, headed by J. Edgar Hoover, that was created in the 1920s to find political radicals is now the:</p><p>14. The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) was created to help ______who were arrested during the Red Scare.</p><p>15. After World War 1, federal agents uncovered ______that communists were planning a revolution to turn America into a communist nation.</p><p>16. Because of the fear of foreigners in the 1920s, the United States for the first time limited the number of immigrants from:</p><p>17. The National Origins Act of 1924 deliberately used the 1890 census to base quotas on to decrease the number of immigrants coming from:</p><p>18. Today U.S. immigration laws are no longer based on a______like they were in the 1920s.</p><p>19. During the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan had most political success in the ______.</p><p>20. During the 1920s the members of the Ku Klux Klan felt that they were protecting “______.”</p><p>21. In the 1920s which groups were the Ku Klux Klan not against?</p><p>22. What was a reason the Ku Klux Klan declined in power by the end of the 1920s?</p><p>23. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of: 24. What was the evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti?</p><p>25. There were worldwide protests and demonstrations ______Sacco and Vanzetti because many people felt that the two men did not get a fair trial.</p><p>26. Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty and sentenced to death largely because they were:</p><p>27. In his official last public words, Vanzetti said that he felt his death was a triumph because:</p><p>28. The Presidential election of 1920 was the first one in which______could vote.</p><p>29. Name some facts about the Presidential election of 1920?</p><p>30. In which city did the first commercial radio broadcast take place?</p><p>31. Warren G. Harding won the 1920 Presidential election in a landslide because he believed that the federal government should:</p><p>32. Explain the Republican Formula:</p><p>33. The ______is the first time powerful nations agreed to disarmament.</p><p>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.</p><p>36. The personal friends that President Harding put in his cabinet and “kept him walking the floors at night” were known as the:</p><p>37. In the Teapot Dome Scandal Secretary of Interior Albert Fall ______in exchange for kickbacks (getting part of the money).</p><p>38. The Teapot Dome Scandal was the first time in American history a ______was convicted of a felony and sent to prison.</p><p>39. During President Calvin Coolidge’s administration the American economy:</p><p>40. President Calvin believed that business performed best when the federal government ______, which is why he vetoed a lot of bills.</p><p>41. One of President Coolidge’s most famous quotes, which reflected his political philosophy, is “The business of America is ______.”</p><p>42. The nations that signed the Kellog-Briand Pact promised:</p><p>43. What was the problem with the Kellogg-Briand Pact?</p><p>44. Although President Coolidge was a popular President while he was in office, he is usually ranked as one of the worst Presidents because: </p><p>45. Henry Ford made the Model-T more affordable because of his use of the ______</p><p>46. Henry Ford was considered revolutionary as an employer because he:</p><p>47. How did the automobile transform America?</p><p>48. The first practical peacetime use of airplanes was:</p><p>49. Charles Lindbergh became the first person to:</p><p>50. Advertising in the 1920s focused on convincing Americans that luxuries, like electrical appliances, were actually______.</p>