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Chapter 8 Review
 

1. Why were many Americans worried about communism in the 1920s?

 
 
 
 

2. Who called out the National Guard when police officers went on strike in Boston?  What happened to the police officers?

 
 
 
 
 

3. The movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans north during and after

 
 
World War I is called the ________________________________.
 

4. Which president in the 1920s gave jobs to people who got involved in scandals?

 
 
 

5. What did Calvin Coolidge believe the role of government should be in people’s lives and in the economy?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

6. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?  Was it successful?  Why or why not?

 
 
 
 
 

7. What happened to the American economy after the recession that followed World War I?

 
 

8. What is welfare capitalism?  Give some examples of welfare capitalism.

 
 
 
 
 
 

9. What led to increased consumer spending in the 1920s?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10. _________________________________ became the center of the auto-making industry.

 

11. Which sports gained popularity in the 1920s?

 
 
 
 

12. Name some famous African American musicians from the 1920s.

 
 
 
 
 

13. How did the government restrict immigration in the 1920s?

 
 
 
 
 

14. Who was put on trial for teaching evolution in school?  What was the result of his trial?

 
 
 
 
 
 
Vocabulary:  capitalism, anarchist, integration, laissez-faire, recession, productivity, flapper, expatriate, nativism, evolution
People:  Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, A. Philip Randolph, Marcus Garvey, Albert Fall, Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, Alfred E. Smith