Chapter 12 Questions Coach Williams
Section 1
- What is nativism?
- What is isolationism?
- What is communism?
- Under communism, who would control all property and business?
- Which three groups were targeted by the Palmer Raids?
- What is an anarchist?
- For what reasons did many Americans want to limit the number of immigrants coming into the US?
- What did the KKK say they were devoted to?
- What things did the KKK believe in?
- What did the quota system do?
- Why didn’t the gov’t allow strikes during WWI? How many strikes occurred during 1919?
- What four things were the steel workers striking for? How many went on strike? Did they succeed?
Section 2
- What did Warren G. Harding mean by “normalcy?”
- Why was Russia left out of the Washington Naval Conference (1921)?
- What two things did Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes call for at the Washington Naval Conference?
- Why did French troops march into Germany? What was going on with the German economy after WWI?
- Why did the US propose the Dawes Plan? What did the Dawes Plan do?
- Who was Harding’s Secretary of the Treasury? What did he do to taxes and the national debt?
- What was the Ohio Gang?
- Who was Harding’s head of the Veterans Bureau? What was he caught doing?
- What was the biggest scandal of the Harding presidency?
- What did Fall secretly do with the oil lands? What did Fall get in return?
- What did Fall become the first cabinet member in US history to do?
Section 3
- How many Model T cars were produced?
- What product was the backbone of the US economy from the 1920s to the 1970s?
- Was Calvin Coolidge pro-business or anti-business? Give one reason as to why or why not.
- Did Coolidge want high taxes or low taxes (income)? Did he want high tariffs or low tariffs?
- In what ways did the automobile help to end rural isolation?
- How did the automobile lead to young people becoming more independent?
- What was the average annual income in the US in 1920? In 1929?
- In addition to gasoline, what else powered the US economy?
- List four electrical devices that were popular products in the home in the 1920s.
- What happened to factory productivity between 1920 and 1929?
- What was the national income in 1921?What was the national income in 1929?