Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues



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Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues pg. 662-668

1. An economic system that supports government control over property to create equality is called: _____________

2. What was the name of the group of revolutionaries that seized power in Russia in 1917? ____________________

3. What was the name of their leader? ____________________________?

4. The fear of communism in the United States in the 1920s was called the: ____________________________

5. What was the name of the U.S. Attorney General who set up an agency in the U.S. Justice Department to arrest

Communists, socialists, and anarchists during this time? ________________________________.

6. This agency later became known as the: _________________________________.

7. What was the name of the incident in which two Italian immigrants were arrested for suspicion of robbery and murder in Massachusetts? _______________________________

8. What happened to these two immigrants?____________________________.

9. What was the name of the government act passed by Congress in 1921 that set the limit on how many immigrants from each country could enter the United States? ________________________.

10. In 1924, a new quota limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe, mostly ________________ and _________________________.

11. This 1924 law also banned immigration from what Asian country as well? ___________________.

Business of America pg. 686-692

1. Name three ways the automobile changed American life?

a) _________________________________________________________________________________________

b) _________________________________________________________________________________________

c) _________________________________________________________________________________________

2. How was Henry Ford able to increase the production of cars?

3. Businesses needed to sell all the goods they were now producing. So they encouraged customers to buy on the

__________________plan. This was a form of borrowing in which customers could make low payments over a

period of time.

Changing Ways of Life pg. 694-700

1. Means the movement of Americans from rural areas to the cities: _______________________________

2. Describes the era that prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States:

_______________________. In what year was it passed? ________________.

3. These were hidden saloons and nightclubs that served liquor illegally: _____________________

4. This is the name given to people who brought in liquor from Canada and the Caribbean: _____________________

5. He was Chicago’s most famous gang leader during the 1920s: ______________________________

6. What amendment repealed prohibition in the United States? ___________________ In what year? _____________

Twenties Woman pg. 695-696

1. What was the nickname given to young women who embraced new fashions and values during the 1920s?

___________________.

2. What were three things these young women did?

a) _________________________________________________

b) _________________________________________________

c) _________________________________________________

3. After WWI, women moved back into traditional “women’s professions.” What were three jobs were considered as a

Traditional “women’s profession?” ___________________, ___________________, and _____________________

Education and Popular Culture pg. 696-699

1. The most powerful form of mass media during the 1920s was the _________ and ____________. Why were these forms of communication important?

Harlem Renaissance pg.702-706

1. What term is used to describe the when hundreds of thousands of African-Americans had moved from the South to

the big cities of the North between 1910 and 1920? _____________________________

3. This term means an execution without due process of law, especially by hanging by a mob: ____________________

5. In the 1920s, many African-Americans moved to ________________, a section of New York City.

6. This literary and artistic movement celebrated African-American culture by urging African-Americans to take pride

in their heritage and folklore: _________________________________

7. This African-American poet wrote about the pain of prejudice and urged African-Americans to resist discrimination:

____________________________.

8. What African-American poet wrote about the daily lives of working-class blacks by writing poems that wove the

tempos of jazz and the blues ? ____________________________

9. She was the most famous African-American writer who collected folklore of poor Southern blacks: _______________

10. What type of music became very popular during the 1920s? _______________. What was the two most famous

musicians of this type of music during the 1920s? ______________________ and _________________________

11. Describe Irving Berlin and his accomplishments.

12. What was Tin Pan Alley?

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