11.5 Study Guide

Question 1

Palmer Raids

Answer 1

Following WW1, the U.S Government feared communist influence and their plot to overthrow the government

Question 2

What was the goal of the KKK’s resurgence in the 1920s?

Answer 2

The new KKK had other targets besides newly freed Blacks

• African-Americans
• Catholics
• Jews
• Immigrants such as Mexicans, Japanese, and other Europeans

Question 3

Flapper

Answer 3

Young women who embraced the urban lifestyle and fashions that large cities
provided.

Question 4

Scopes Trial

Answer 4

Protestant Fundamentalism pushed for the passage of The Butler Act-In 1925, the state of
Tennessee outlaws any teaching that denies the story of the divine creation of man as
taught in the bible, will cause the Scopes Trial

Question 5

What were the arguments for Prohibition based on?

Answer 5

The arguments that were used to support Prohibition were based on moral and social
concerns.

Question 6

18th Amendment

Answer 6

The 18th Amendment makes the Manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor illegal.

Question 7

How does the 18th Amendment affect organized crime?

Answer 7

The passage of the 18th Amendment helped to create a demand that organized crime-filled.

Question 8

What was the outcome of the growth of radio in the 1920s?

Answer 8

The growth of radio in the 1920s led to Americans sharing in popular culture.

Question 9

Why did the car and other consumer goods become so affordable in the 1920s?

Answer 9

Ford was able to drop the price of cars and help the automobile industry flourish because
he used a mass production method called the assembly line. The use of the assembly line will result in lower prices for consumer goods including the car.

Question 10

Effects of the Assembly Line

Answer 10

• Helps Automobile industry flourish
• Drops production costs
• Lower prices of consumer goods.

Question 11

Jazz

Answer 11

Jazz, combined ragtimes, blues, and other styles and dominated the Harlem Renaissance of
the 1920s

Question 12

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 12

The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and literary movement led by the educated black
middle class.

Question 13

What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 13

It celebrates the culture and heritage of

African Americans

Question 14

Zora Neale Hurston

Answer 14

Zora Neal Hurston was a Harlem Renaissance novelist.

Question 15

Langston Hughes

Answer 15

Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance poet.

Question 16

Duke Ellington

Answer 16

Duke Ellington was a Harlem Renaissance musician.

Question 17

Marcus Garvey

Answer 17

Marcus Garvey starts the Back To Africa Movement.
-Garvey believed that an important way for African Americans to achieve equality and fight discrimination was to create an independent nation in Africa.

Question 18

19th Amendment

Answer 18

The U.S Congress will pass the 19th amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote by stating that a citizen could not be denied the right to vote on the account of their sex. The passage of the 19th Amendment can be directly linked to women’s role in supporting WWI

Question 19

Margaret Sanger

Answer 19

Margaret Sanger pushed for women to have the right to birth control.

Question 20

Why did Harding call for a return to “normalcy” during his presidential campaign?

Answer 20

WW1 and Wilson’s presidency.

Question 21

Laissez-Faire

Answer 21

Economist Adam Smith influenced economic and political leaders with his Laissez-Faire
theory- “government keep your hands off business”.

Question 22

Why did President Hoover become unpopular as president?

Answer 22

Because of the stock market crash and the start of the Great Depression.