American History
Mr. Bielecki
Study Questions
Answer the following questions in paragraph form in your notebook based off of your
careful reading of the text book.
Chapter 32 (1919-1929) - “American Life in the ‘Roaring Twenties’”
1) How did many Americans respond those perceived as Communist in the United
States in the after-math of World War I?
2) Following World War I how did many in the United States react to resumed
immigration and immigrants who had earlier come to America? What actions did
Congress take regarding this matter?
3) What effects did prohibition have, both positive and negative?
4) What impacts did the prosperity of the 1920s have on American society?
5) What effects did the invention of the automobile have in America, both
economically and socially?
6) What impacts did the inventions of the airplane, radio, and movies have on
America?
7) How did the traditional conception of “womanhood” change during the 1920s?
8) What things of importance were happening in Harlem in the 1920s?
9) What was significant about the literary movement of the 1920s?
10) What factors were responsible for the “bull market” of the 1920s?
Chapter 33 (1920-1932) – “The Politics of Boom and Bust”
1) What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Adkins v. Children’s Hospital?
2) What did the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 address? And the KelloggBriand Pact?
3) What did the Fordney-McCumber Law of 1922 do? What impact did it have?
4) What was Teapot Dome? What happened?
5) When and how did Coolidge become President?
6) How did the McNary-Haugen Bill propose to help farmers?
7) Describe the candidates for President in 1924 and the election results.
8) What were the lingering problems revolving around the issue of foreign debt in
the 1920’s? What did the Dawes Plan propose?