Unit 5

Question 1

League of Nations

Answer 1

Failed: inaction and fear of countries in response to Hitler, no US

Question 2

Postwar Struggles

Answer 2

1. debate over LON
2. The Progressive Era
3. Unemployment and Struggling Farms/Factories
4. Racial Tensions
5. Influenza Pandemic

Question 3

American Response Post WW1

Answer 3

Isolationism: pulling away from involvement in international affairs
Nativism: prejudice/fear against foreign born

Question 4

The Red Scare

Answer 4

Attorney General Mitchell Palmer led “Palmer Raids”
- blamed foreigners for spread of communism and anarchy
- arrested and deported

Question 5

KKK rises again

Answer 5

used anti-immigrant sentiments as an excuse to harass groups different than themselves

Question 6

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 6

Italian immigrants and anarchists, unfair trial for murder, sentenced to death

Question 7

Young women WW1

Answer 7

• involvement in war
• assertion of independence
• reject traditional values
• demand same freedoms
• 19th amendment

Question 8

Flapper

Answer 8

an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 20s

Question 9

Double Standard

Answer 9

• greater sexual freedom to men
• women torn between new standards and old expectations

Question 10

Impact of Automobile

Answer 10

urban sprawl: workers can live miles from jobs , hotels/motels, mechanic shops, gas stations, garages

Question 11

henry ford

Answer 11

created model T, Anti-semitism

Question 12

Consumerism in 20s

Answer 12

purchasing consumer goods,
etc. radios, cars, vacuums, clothing

Question 13

Installment Plans

Answer 13

paying a little bit of the cost until the whole is paid
Bad: it would put people in debt

Question 14

Heroes and Celebrities

Answer 14

Babe Ruth: baseball
Charles A. Lindbergh: pilot on transatlantic flight

Question 15

Entertainment and Art

Answer 15

The Jazz Singer: first movie w sound
American Jazz: George Gershwin
Georgia O’Keefe: colored canvases of NY

Question 16

The Lost Generation

Answer 16

Sinclair Lewis- US conformity/materialism, F. Scott- Fitzgerald- the negative side of the era, Edna St. Vincent Millay- poems celebrating youth and independence,
Ernest Hemingway- critique of the glorification of war

Question 17

Prohibition Experiment

Answer 17

WCTU and the Anti-Saloon League
- worked to get prohibition passed
18th Amendment: manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol prohibited
“The Noble Experiment”

Question 18

Volestead Act

Answer 18

set up the Prohibition Bureau
reasons why it failed
1. underfunded
2. impossible to enforce

Question 19

Loopholes in prohibition

Answer 19

• alcohol allowed for medicinal and religious purposes: prescriptions skyrocket
• people made their own alcohol -> accidents
• bootleggers

Question 20

speakeasies

Answer 20

hidden underground saloons and nightclubs

Question 21

St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

Answer 21

7 members of rival gang gunned down
impact: rise of FBI, rise of “rackets”, Al Capone takes over