The Unsettled 20's - P7

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

limited government, consumerism, culture wars

Question 2

American Plan

Answer 2

striking unions can be penalized for illegal restraint of trade (laissez-faire economics)

Question 3

Welfare Capitalism

Answer 3

companies, not the government, are responsible for employee’s well being

Question 4

Welfare Capitalism

Answer 4

companies, not the government, are responsible for employee’s well being

Question 5

Prohibition

Answer 5

18th Amendment and Volstead Act

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

fear of communism in the US
Primary Cause: mail bombs
Secondary Cause: nativism/fear of communism/anarchy

Question 7

Palmer Raids

Answer 7

raids of organizations suspected of crimes

Question 8

Sacco & Vanzetti

Answer 8

Italian anarchists were convicted and executed for murder despite scare evidence against them because of their political party

Question 9

National Origins Act (1924)

Answer 9

lowers immigration each year to 2% of what it was in 1890

Question 10

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Answer 10

Builds on the Page act which banned Chinese women

Question 11

Red Summer

Answer 11

race riots in cities (Chicago 1919)

Question 12

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 12

a flourishing of African American artists, writers, intellectuals, and social leaders in the 1920s, centered in Harlem, New York City

Question 13

Marcus Garvey

Answer 13

advocated mass migration of AA to Africa and founded the UNIA

Question 14

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 14

the connection between America’s economic and political interests overseas; businesses would gain from diplomatic efforts while strengthening america’s economic presence

Question 15

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 15

Secretary Albert Fall accepted bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land

Question 16

Volstead Act

Answer 16

made the manufacture and distribution of alcohol illegal within the borders of the United States

Question 17

UNIA (universal negro improvement association)

Answer 17

arose to mobilize AA workers and champion black separatism