US History II Test 2

Question 1

What was the anti-immigration movement?

Answer 1

-Fear that immigrants might be communists
-KKK is reborn in the 1920’s and goes nationwide
-U.S. switches immigration system to the Quota System (created by the National Origins Act)
-National Origins Act limits immigration and encourages European immigration over others

Question 2

What was the 18th amendment?

Answer 2

-Prohibition
-Ban of alcohol
-Supported by women, progressives, and the anti-German movement
-Resulted in growth of unorganized crime

Question 3

What was the 21st amendment?

Answer 3

-Repealed 18th amendment (Prohibition)
-Decreased crime
-Increased tax revenue

Question 4

What was the 19th amendment?

Answer 4

-(1920) Gave women right to vote

Question 5

Who is Henry Ford?

Answer 5

-Improved car assembly line
-Cost of a model T car does from $950 to $280
-Made car affordable for most Americans

Question 6

What was developed in terms of art and technology in the Roaring 20’s?

Answer 6

-Radio becomes affordable, more than 3 million Americans had a radio by 1923
-Radio results in marketing campaigns
-Movies with sound became widely offered
-Created a national culture
-The Modernist Movement was an attempt to break tradition and create something unique
-Included Impressionism, abstract, and geometricism
-Art deco furniture and architecture

Question 7

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 7

-First major artistic movement
-WEB Dubois = communist/writer/founder of NAACP
-Langston Hughes = poetry set to jazz rhythm
-Cotton Club = heart of movement, black performers with white audiences

Question 8

Jazz

Answer 8

-Originated in the South
-Improvisations
-Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington

Question 9

What were the causes of the Great Depression?

Answer 9

-Industrial Overproduction
-Consumer Overspending/Underconsumption

-“Get rich quick” attitudes
-Stock market crash

-Disparity in wealth: wages didn’t keep up with inflation. Farmers and miners were hurting.

-Banking panic: mass withdrawals caused 9,000 banks to fail

-The Dust Bowl: a severe drought in the US caused by over plowing fields

Question 10

What were Okies?

Answer 10

-People affected by the Dust Bowl who moved and became migrant workers
-The Grapes of Wrath is about Okies