9W2 Benchmark Review US History

Roaring 1920s

Great Migration Nickelodeon WSM Consumer Revolution Sacco & Venzetti

Nickelodeon
_____________________: first movie houses that played silent movies and then later talkies.
WSM
_____________________: Nashville based radio station that popularized country music with their broadcast of the Grand
Ole Opry.
Great Migration
_____________________: large scale internal movement of African Americans from the rural south to industrial north
from from 1910-1920s
Sacco & Venzettl
_____________________: infamous trial of immigrants that resulted in their conviction and execution and exposed the
height of nativism within American society during the 1920s.
Consumer Revolution
_____________________: significant increase in the consumption of goods by the general population: due to
advancements in production, availability of credit, and a shift towards a culture of buying.

Prohibition Lost Generation Teapot Dome Talented Tenth Palmer Raids

Lost Generation
_____________________: Americans who came of age during World War I, particularly a group of writers who
experienced disillusionment and a sense of alienation from the post-war society,
Teapot Dome
_____________________: political corruption scandal during the Harding presidential administration involving the private
sale of Navy oil reserves in Wyoming
Palmer Raids
_____________________: demonstrated the height of the 1920s Red Scare as government launched investigations and
deportations of suspected communists and radicals
Prohibition
_____________________: following the ratification of the 18th Amendment this time period marked an end to the sale of
alcohol in the United States and the rise of organized crime in many American cities
Talented Tenth
_____________________: concept developed by W.E.B. Du Bois which refers to the idea that the top 10% of African
Americans can use education to become leaders within their community.

1. What was the primary goal of the Immigration Quota Acts?

2. What crime was biology teacher, John Scopes, tried for? Who defended Scopes and what was the
outcome of the trial? What larger societal issues were exposed and debated as a result of the trial?
Teaching evolution theory, Clarence Darrow helped, modernism vs fundamentalism

3. In what ways did flappers rebel against traditional societal norms?

4. Describe how the assembly line increased mass production? What was the result on the price of
automobiles and what was the effect on American society?
assembly line, pioneered by Henry Ford. price drop

5. Describe the Harlem Renaissance? List at least two important individuals and their contributions.
African-American cultural movement. Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes

6. How did the following musical styles develop and influence American society?
a. Blues originated from african-american work song
b. Jazz evolved from blues and ragtime.
c. Country rooted in folk and bluegrass

7. Describe how mass media influenced American culture? List at least three 1920s celebrities.

Radio and movies

1. List the causes of the Great Depression

Stock market crash, Bank failures, Banking panics and monetary contraction, Overproduction, Agricultural woes,
Bad federal reserve policy, Income inequality

2. What was dangerous about how Americans bought stocks in the 1920s? What event did it eventually
lead to?

Use borrowed money to invest, stock market crash

3. How did people in the urban and rural areas suffer differently during the Great Depression?

Dust Bowl

4. What was Hoover’s response to the Great Depression? Evaluate his success in handling the
Depression. Rugged individualism

FDR
________________________ became President in 1933.

New Deal
The programs that aimed to end the Great Depression were called ________________________

relief
The goals of the government program to end the Great Depression were ________________________,
recovery
________________________, ________________________
reform

FDIC
________________________ insured private deposits in banks and solidified the nations banking system.

Social Security
One of the most important Depression era programs - ________________________, which setup a benefits
systems including retirement pensions, unemployment and disability insurance.

Another ________________________
New Deal TVA
program was the ________________________ which generated
employment, controlled flooding and brought electricity to Appalachia and the Southeastern United States.

New Deal
The largest ________________________ WPA
program was the ________________________ which aimed to
employ citizens in public works jobs including building airports, sidewalks and other modern public facilities.

FLSA
American working life was transformed with the passage of the ________________________ which created a
federal minimum wage and maximum working hours.

Following the Supreme Court overturning programs like the AAA and NRA, President Roosevelt attempted to
________________________
pack the Supreme Court with nine new justices. Fearing a growth of Presidential power and the end of
rejected
checks and balances within the government, Congress ________________________ FDR’s plan.
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1. How did the end of WWI and the Great Depression lead to the rise of totalitarian leaders?

The uneasy atmosphere after WWI, coupled with the poor economic situation, led to it.
a. Name the leaders;
i. Italy Benito Mussonlini
ii. Japan Hideki Tojo
iii. Germany Hitler
iv. Russia Stalin

2. The U.S. took a stance of neutrality as the war broke out. How “neutral” was American neutrality? Cite
specific actions taken by the U.S. government to support your answer.

the United States took measures to avoid political and military conflicts across the oceans, it
continued to expand economically and protect its interests in Latin America.

3. FDR’s State of the Union address to Congress in 1941 is remembered as the Four Freedoms speech -
list the four freedoms that FDR outlined in his speech and explain the message behind his speech.

freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear