G block SEI- Chapter 20+21 Test Study guide

 The Roaring Twenties Test is Thursday, December 18 on google classroom/forms.

All Tests are 100% based on class notes and discussions.  The notes are based on the book "The Americans" Chapter 20 and 21 and other sources.  Text links given each day.

For the 16 multiple choice, choose the best answer!  If you need to, eliminate wrong answers to find the best answer!  For the 3 open response questions, write a logical response to the question answering all parts of the question and use a specific historical example discussed in our class to prove you know.  

Election of 1920- __________________________ became President of the USA

Picture question- Does Harding look Presidential? __________________

Picture question- What ruined the Harding Presidency- ____________________________ Scandal, which was his friends committing crimes

  “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; . . . not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”  Warren G. Harding- Question #1- After WWI, what does President Harding think the US needs? Return to _________________________

Inauguration of 1923 and Election of 1924- __________________________ became President of the USA

19th Amendment gave __________________________ the right to __________________________

What types of people enjoyed the "Roaring Twenties" or "Jazz Age"? __________________________, __________________________, __________________________, etc.

How was Mass Media influential in the USA in the 1920's? __________________________ instead of TV, sports legends like Babe Ruth, and __________________________ flew across the Atlantic Ocean solo and nonstop!

"In all my life I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood. . . . We were tried during a time . . . when there was hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigner. . . . I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian. . . . If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.” 

Question #1- Who said this?

Question #2- What evidence was presented in this double homicide and burglary case in South Braintree, MA?

Question #3- What did he plea (declare himself)?

Question #4- When he was executed on weak evidence, many people say this is a good example of ____________________________________________

Picture Question- What was prohibited during "Prohibition"? ________________________

“ The blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order . . . . eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat . . . licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of American homes, . . . burning up the foundations of society.” - A Mitchell Palmer, "The Case Against the Reds"- Question #1- What is this an example of? The _________________ Scare (Fear of Communism)

Picture fill in the blank- During the Roaring 1920s, the U.S. economy ____________________

Picture question- What did more people have (own) in the 1920's? ___________________

Who were the Flappers? ___________________ who challenged traditional gender roles and behavior.

Who do you support- the Boston Police in 1919 fighting for better pay and work conditions (Huelga), or MA Governor Calvin Coolidge, who said "There is no right to strike against the public safety, anywhere, anytime."  Explain why you support one side and not the other!

Using a reference to any small part of the poem below: 1- Identify the main idea of the author and 2- one piece of evidence to support the main idea

Explain if Prohibition (of alcohol 1920-1933) was a success or failure.