Question #1– Debate over League of Nations leaves

American public deeply divided– Economy in state of adjustment

• Soldiers returning home faced unemployment• Wartime orders decrease; hurting farmers and

factory workers

– Fearful of outsiders/Nativism – Isolationism – policy of pulling away in foreign

affairs

Question #2

• Red Scare: Fear of Communism

• Begins in 1919 – after WWI

• There had been a Communist Revolution in Russia

Question #3

• Palmer Raids: nationwide raids to round up suspected “Reds” (communists)

Question #4

• Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists that dodged the draft

• Convicted of murder – sentenced to death

• Many believe they were killed because of their heritage and beliefs (not the crime)

Question #5

• Nativism – prejudice against foreign-born people

• Policy made Congress limit immigration

Question #6

• Group was devoted to “100 percent Americanism” which it considered to be English, Protestant heritage

• Hostile to African Americans, Catholics, Jews, foreigners, and any other group it judged to be immoral or un-American

Question #7

• Quotas – limits on immigration

• People believed that now there were fewer jobs, fewer immigrants should be allowed to enter the US

• Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere were not included in the Quota

Question #8

• During WWI, people were not allowed to go on strike, so after the war people were still upset with working conditions

• Wanted an increase in pay

Question #9

• Immigrants worked for less

• Most unions did not allow African Americans to join

Question #10

• Given a bad label so the public will support boss, not workers

• If they organized as a union/strike, it looked like they were planning a “revolt”

Question #11

• Keep taxes down for business – have more in their pocket to invest in business (buy more land, hirer more workers, etc)

• Keep government interference low (laissez-faire type policies: opposite of Communism)

• Increase tariffs (helped support American business)

Question #12

• New roads must be built – Route 66 (travel from Chicago to California on one road)

• Houses came with garages

• New gas stations, repair shops, motels, tourist camps, shopping centers

• Farming families could drive to the cities Allowed families to vacation in new places

• Urban sprawl

Question #13

• Prohibition banned alcohol

• Began with a movement to promote morals/healthy behavior

• Effect – organized crime, bootlegging, speakeasies, increase in bars

Question #14

• John Scopes was arrested for teaching about evolution

• Shows the huge clash btwn. fundamentalists/traditional values and changing/liberal ideas

Question #15

• Women’s traditional role as wife and mother changed

• More free time b/c of new inventions (vacuum, washing machine)

• Some became flappers

• Shorter hair and skirts

• 19th Amendment – gained the right to vote

Question #16

• Great Migration – movement of African Americans from farms/rural areas in the south to cities/urban areas in the north

• Cause: better factory jobs in north, failure of crops and racial discrimination in the south

• Effect: racial tension in the north, overcrowded cities, Harlem Renaissance

Question #17

• a cultural movement in 1920s America during which black art, literature, and music experienced renewal and growth, originating in New York City's Harlem district

Question #18

• Italy – Mussolini took over as dictator

• Germany – Hitler failed to overthrow gov’t– Jailed for 9 months– Wrote Mein Kampf

Question #19

• Lindbergh Hero– First person to fly solo across Atlantic

• Lindbergh Villain– Racist/anti-Semitic remarks– Ties to German air force/Nazis

Question #20

• New electrical appliances

• Running water – more baths!

• Electricity – safer than gas.