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1. The US reaction to stop any future wars after World War 1 was the ?: Kellogs Briand Pact

2. After World War 1 the economic boom in the US can be attributed to the government policy that helped whom?: Big Business; WW1 created income for business from building military equipment. Coolidge called his policy favoring American business: "a constructive economy".

3. What President led the US through World War 1?: Wilson; he told the People that it was necessary to save democracy and France (they owed US a lot of money).

4. What impact did WW1 have on women?: Allowed them to perform men jobs and allowed them to vote (19th ammendment).

5. How did the Allies disperse the Ottoman Turkish, Austrian Hungarian and German empires after WW1?: Separated them through ethnicity. Germany had to pay the League of Nations 33 billion in reparations.

6. Who were the members of the League of Nations? How did the US participate?: In 1920: France, Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom & others. The US helped create the League but did not join it (Congress voted NO).

7. What was the agreement that ended WW1?: Treaty of Versailles

8. How did WW1 affect farmers?: Farmers increased production when Wilson increased prices. Farmer income increased by almost 30 percent.

9. Define the purpose of Prohibition.: To reduce domestic abuse, accidents on the job, protect public health and appease religious groups that considered drinking sinful.

10. How did Americans cope with Prohibition?: They drank in illegal bars called "speakeasies".

11. What was the impact of the Harlem Renaissance?: rebirth of black culture; it drastically changed American literature and music; it helped end racial discrimination.

12. Explain The Great Migration.: Blacks migrated from the South to the North looking for a better life away from racial discrimination.

13. Explain the differences between W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington.: Dubois proposed blacks get education to get respect, while Booker Washington proposed they get jobs first to get respect.

14. Explain the extremist groups that thrived on hatred during the early 1900's.: KKK, Anarchists, and Nativists took advantage of the fear of outsiders and foreigners after WW1 to recruit members, blaming foreigners, blacks and government for bad economy. KKK used anti-communism to harass any group unlike themselves.

15. Did African Americans change with the times and develop in the 1920's? How?: They started the Great Migration going North looking for a better life, they improved American culture with the Harlem Renaissance and started protesting racial discrimination and violence via the NAACP.

16. How did the 1920's change women in the US?: The rebellious, pleasure loving atmosphere of the 1920's motivated women to assert their independence, reject 19th century values, and demand the same freedoms as men. Another 1920's influence was the advertising of the Flapper as an ideal for women.

17. How did the Red Scare start?: The Red Scare was a result of revolutionaries overthrowing their czar in 1919, establishing a Communist state, advocating a worldwide revolution to abolish Capitalism, the forming of the Communist Party in the US, and several dozen bombs mailed to governm

18. What group(s) benefited from the surge of the Red Scare?: The KKK.

19. Who were directly affected by the overtones of the Red Scare?: Immigrants, anarchists, Catholics, Jews, African Americans (harassed by the KKK).

How did women make their mark in the 1920's?: They stopped being only housewives. They demanded equal treatment and freedom as men. They took jobs that used to be men-only jobs.

21. The 1920's is best known for american consumerism. Explain.: The invention of the assembly line increased production, lowered prices, increased jobs and salaries. People started earning more and spending more

22. Define the causes and effects of the Fordney-McCumber Act of 1922.: It increased taxes on U.S. imports to benefit US businesses, which reduced the goods sold by Britain and France. As France and Britain became more dependent on payments from Germany, when Germany defaulted it almost caused a war. US loaned Germany so they

23. Who were the important players in the Scopes Trial? Why did this trial have such an impact on our nation?: The players were evolutionists and creationists. It had an impact in the eventual legalization of teaching of evolution theory in public schools.

24. Describe the primary reasons the US prospered economically in the 1920's.: Government policies favoring businesses; lowering taxes, increasing tariffs on foreign imports; new technology increased wages and production.

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