APUSH - Ch. 31 Study Guide

Question 1

Describe American attitudes following World War I.

Answer 1

turned inward

Question 2

How did businesses take advantage of the Red Scare?

Answer 2

they used it to break unions apart

Question 3

Who made a huge effort to round up radicals and anarchists during the Red Scare?

Answer 3

attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 4

Why did the Ku Klux Klan gain membership in the 1920s?

Answer 4

because of the post-war reaction

Question 5

Why did people want to limit immigration in the 20s? (3)

Answer 5

nativism

discrimination / segregation

Question 6

The Immigration Act of 1924 was aimed at what group of immigrants?

Answer 6

Japanese Immigrants

Question 7

During the 1920s and after, many American immigrant ethnic groups

Answer 7

immigration was slowed down due to the immigration act of 1924

Question 8

What group resisted the enforcement of the Volstead Act?

Answer 8

large eastern cities

Question 9

What city had a reputation for its gangsters?

Answer 9

Chicago

Question 10

John Dewey believed that education should focus on what type of learning?

Answer 10

Progressive Education

Question 11

Basic facts of the Scopes Trial were? What was the result? (4)

Answer 11

John T. Scopes = indicted for teaching evolution

defended by nationally known attorney

William Jennings Bryan = prosecutor

Scopes = found guilty and fined $100

Question 12

All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible (4)

Answer 12

mellonite’s tax policies

automobile

advertising (Bruce Barton)

sports

Question 13

Discuss the prosperity that developed in the 1920s

Answer 13

new machinery and new industrial revolution

Question 14

How did Henry Ford expand the auto industry?

Answer 14

Fordism

Question 15

What was Frederick W. Taylor’s big contribution to big business?

Answer 15

scientific management

Question 16

What were some results of the automotive revolution? (7)

Answer 16

new industry emerged

jobs for immigrants

speedy marketing of perishable foodstuff = accelerated

prosperity for outlying farms

new roads

opening of churches and schools

greater air and environmental quality

Question 17

What made Charles Lindbergh an American hero besides the flying accomplishment itself? (2)

Answer 17

dramatized and popularized flying

gave a strong boost to the infant aviation industry

Question 18

What was unique about the movie The Jazz Singer?

Answer 18

was the first “talkie”

Question 19

How American life affected by automobiles, radios, and motion pictures? (8)

Answer 19

Americans live in mostly urban areas

women found more jobs in the cities

birth control

equal rights movement

churches convert to Modernism

flappers

jazz

movies

Question 20

Where did most people live—according to the 1920 census?

Answer 20

urban areas

Question 21

Margaret Sanger became known for advocating what?

Answer 21

birth control

contraceptives

Question 22

What type of jobs were open to women in the 1920s? (2)

Answer 22

low-paying jobs (retail clerking and office typing)

^ = “women’s work”

Question 23

What was D.W. Griffiths’ Birth of a Nation about?

Answer 23

glorified the Ku Klux Klan of Reconstruction days and defamed both blacks and Northern carpetbaggers

Question 24

Describe Marcus Garvey’s life/contributions: (3)

Answer 24

founder of United Negro Improvement Association

advocated a constitution to protect the rights of black Americans

inspired blacks to have race pride

Question 25

What did Ernest Hemingway (2), F. Scott Fitzgerald (2), Sinclair Lewis(2), and William Faulkner write(3)?

Answer 25

Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby

Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms

Lewis - Main Street, Babbitt

Faulkner - the Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom

Question 26

What does “buying on margin” mean?

Answer 26

it means paying with a small down payment

Question 27

Andrew Mellon believed in taxing what income group?

Answer 27

middle-income groups