Chapter 20
Questions
Chapter 20 Section 1: Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
- What problems did
returning soldiers face?
- How did Americans
respond to the conditions left by WWI?
- Why did the Red Scare
begin in the US?
- Why did the Palmer
Raids occur?
- How are Sacco &
Vanzetti “victims” of Postwar America?
- What became the
dominant attitude of Americans during the early 1920s?
- Why did the KKK rise
again after WWI?
- What were the beliefs
of the KKK?
- Why was the Emergency
Quota Act enacted in 1924?
- How did the Emergency
Quota Act change in 1924?
- To whom did immigration
quotas not apply?
- Why did strikes develop
in 1919?
- Describe the scene of
the Steel Mill strike in 1919.
- How was the Coal Miner’s
Strike of 1919 different from the Steel Worker’s Strike?
- Why did the labor
movement lose its momentum during the 1920s?
Chapter 20 Section 2: The Harding Presidency
- What was the goal of
the Washington Naval Conference?
- What were the issues
that developed with France & England repaying their war debts to the
US?
- How did Dawes help the
situation in Germany?
- Explain the Dawes Plan.
- Why was Harding’s Cabinet
filled with problems?
- Explain the Teapot Dome
Scandal.
Chapter 20 Section 3: The Business of America
- What did Coolidge
favor?
- Identify four ways the
automobile changed America.
- How did cars help
create “urban sprawl?”
- What did the auto
industry symbolize?
- Identify three ways
airplanes changed the US.
- What changed the way
most Americans lived?
- Identify 5 ways
electricity changed the US.
- How did modern
advertising develop?
- How did increased production
& expansion create trouble by the end of the 1920s?
- How did buying goods on
credit become a problem by the end of the 1920s?
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