--- Module 8

Question 1

What were the five major conflicts that took place during the 1920s? How do they conflict with the popular view of the 1920s? Explain the differences between the myth of the 1920s and the reality.

Question 2

What was the first Red Scare? What were the causes? How did the American public and government react?

Question 3

What was prohibition? Who supported it? Why?

Answer 3

woodrow wilson supported it. It banned alcahol and women had high ground.

Question 4

How was prohibition enforced? Was it effective?

Answer 4

Anti sallon leauge, womens temperance union. There was the loophole that it didnt ban possession

Question 5

Who was Marcus Garvey?

Answer 5

e built the largest black nationalist
organization in the world, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA

Question 7

How did the American government stop Garvey?

Answer 7

They convicted him of mail fraud

Question 8

What is the United Negro Improvement Organization?

Answer 8

stressed black pride, racial unity of AFRICAN AMERICANS, and the need to redeem Africa from white rule.

Question 9

Explain the rise of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s.

Answer 9

controlled 24 state legeslatures and were anti black, jewish etc.

Question 10

What movie inspired the increase in the Klu Klux Klan? Why was the movie popular amongst those joining the Klu Klux Klan?

Answer 10

Birth of a nation. romanticized version of the antebellum
South and the distorted version of Reconstruction dominated popular
imagination

Question 11

Who gave his full approval of the movie and urged many Americans to see the film?

Answer 11

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Question 12

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti? Why were they put on trial? Why is this important?

Answer 12

They were immigrants put on trial for being immigrants and anarchists. Sparked the immigration act of 1934

Question 13

What was the Immigration Act of 1924? Which groups of immigrants did the act affect the most?

Answer 13

It limited the number of ethnic groups allowed to enter us

Question 14

Who was Charles Darwin? What book did he write? Why is it significant?

Answer 14

theory of evolution through natural selection in his On the
“Origin of Species” popularized the phrase survival
of the fittest

Question 15

Explain the causes of the Scopes’ trial? What was the significance? What happened?

Answer 15

Prohibited teaching of evolution

Question 16

Who were the two attorneys in the Scopes’ trial? Who did they represent?

Answer 16

Clarance darrow and william jennings bryan.

Question 17

What happened at the Democratic Nomination Convention of 1924? Why did it matter? What did it represent?

Answer 17

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Question 18

How Herbert Hoover and American investors attempt to stop the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Question 19

Why did the Great Depression last so long?

Answer 19

slowing consumer demand, mounting consumer debt, decreased industrial production and the rapid and reckless expansion of the U.S. stock market.

Question 20

What was the Smoot Hawley Tariff? What did it attempt to do? Did it succeed? Why or why not?

Answer 20

It was supposed to help protect us farmers, but made it harder for American farms and businesses to sell abroad.

Question 21

What were the three major worldwide responses to the Great Depression? Explain.

Answer 21

• Fasism
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