Chapter 21 study guide

Question 1

WHy were many Americans concerned with immigrants after WW1?

Answer 1

terrible post-war conditions of Europe led many Europeans to the United States from 1919 to 1920
concerned about the increased number of immigrants

Question 2

Quota Act

Answer 2

restricting immigration

Question 3

The National Origins Act

Answer 3

limited foreigners in the United States

Question 4

What did the Roaring 20s/Harlem Renaissance change?

Answer 4

family structure, educational opportunities, and many other aspects of society

Question 5

Youth during and after WW1:

Answer 5

Many young people exaggerated their right to express themselves
Relationships between the sexes were becoming more relaxed
Conservatives argued that moral standards were breaking down and the youth were too rebellious

Question 6

Margaret Sanger

Answer 6

The leading American proponent of birth control
She founded the American Birth Control League and a research center

Question 7

When were contraceptives ruled ok by the government?

Answer 7

1960s

Question 8

First talking movie

Answer 8

the jazz singer

Question 9

When and what was the first motion picture?

Answer 9

1900—The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Question 10

Fundamentalism

Answer 10

William Jennings Bryan was the spokesmen
a Protestant movement that was grounded in the literal interpretation of the Bible and that all-important knowledge could be found in it. Fundamentalists gained many followers who began to reject the theory of evolution

Question 11

Scopes Trial

Answer 11

John Scopes a biology teacher
Teaching Evolution
Darrow v. Bryan
The trial exposed the dangers of fundamentalism

Question 12

18th Amendment

Answer 12

Prohibition: ratified in 1919 caused conflicts in the United States

Question 13

What happened to saloons?

Answer 13

replaced with the speakeasy and wine consumption dramatically increased

Question 14

Who committed major crimes during Prohibition?

Answer 14

Al Capone

Question 15

KKK

Answer 15

only admitted white protestants that were native born

Question 16

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 16

Both men were Italian immigrants that were anarchists who were convicted of murder in an unfair trial
Many people protested their conviction and their execution was delayed, but they were eventually executed

Question 17

Back to Africa Movement

Answer 17

Pushed by Marcus Garvey
based on the widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century United States that African Americans would want to return to the continent of Africa

Question 18

Harlem Renissance

Answer 18

Many Blacks in the North were living in cities together in ghettos where they were gaining political power by electing representatives
Became a cultural capital during the 1920s
Langston Hughes was one of the most popular poets

Question 19

Why did the 1920s economy boom?

Answer 19

Government’s laisez-faire approach
Federal Reserve kept interest rate low
Post-war boom
Industry
Manufacturing became efficient—Henry Ford and the assembly line

Question 20

Henry Ford

Answer 20

most responsible for the growth of the automobile (Assembly Line)
He made automobiles affordable—Model T
Ford paid high wages to his workers and demanded no union membership and that everyone owned a Ford

Question 21

Some famous pilots in the 1920s:

Answer 21

Wright Brothers and Kitty Hawk made their famous flight in 1903
Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight from New York to Paris in 1927—Spirit of St. Louis (Non-stop one man flight) (Most celebrated hero of the 1920s)

Question 22

Normalcy

Answer 22

Harding coined the term(rather than normality) and wanted America to return to the way things were before the Great War

Question 23

Ohio Gang

Answer 23

led by Harry Daugherty was an unscrupulous group of advisors that dominated the Harding administration

Question 24

Hardings Scandals

Answer 24

(Elks Hill and Teapot Dome)
Veterans’ Bureau

Question 25

Elks Hill and Teapot Dome

Answer 25

Harding’s officials leased federal oil reserves for personal financial gain

Question 26

Veterans’ Bureau

Answer 26

Charles Forbes stole millions from this department and took many bribes

Question 27

Who won election of 1924 and what did he stand for?

Answer 27

Coolidge, conservative and pro-business

Question 28

The Five Power Treaty

Answer 28

limited battleship building and to reduce ships to a fixed ratio
(USA. France, England, Italy, and Japan)

Question 29

The Four Power Treaty

Answer 29

agreed that each nation would respect trading rights in the Pacific (USA, England, France, and Japan)

Question 30

The Nine Power Treaty

Answer 30

agreed to respect China’s independence and to maintain an Open Door

Question 31

Dawes Plan

Answer 31

33 Billion—Germany was provided with a 200 million loan and Germany would make annual payments of 250 million a year

Question 32

The Americans demanded

Answer 32

the repayment of Allied war debt (10 billion)

Question 33

the Allies demanded

Answer 33

that Germany repay their debt