United States History
1920s Unit
Name: ___________________________________ Per: ____ Date: __________________
Politics of the 1920’s Review
Directions: Using your problem solving and technology skills, research and respond to the
following questions. Please do not use Wikipedia. When the question asks for images, please
cut and paste the images in a word document and print the images out at the end of your
quest.
1) Explain the Red Scare in America after World War One. Were fears of “reds” legitimate?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/47a.asp
2) What was the Saco and Vanzetti charged with and convicted of?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/47a.asp
3) Describe the image of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-twentiethcenturyin the 1920s. Why do you think the Ku Klux Klan gained popularity in this decade?
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-twentiethcentury
4) Explain the Teapot Dome
Scandal.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/585252/Teapot-Dome-Scandal
Observe the political cartoon of the Teapot Dome Scandal and explain in your own words
the meaning of the cartoon. http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-123252/A-1924cartoon-shows-Washington-officials-racing-down-an-oil
5) Describe the impact of the automobile on America in the 1920s and explain urban
sprawl.http://theautomobile1920s.weebly.com/positive-effects.html
6) What were some of the new consumer appliances that Americans could purchase in the
1920s. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/20selectrical.html. How did these technologies
change daily life for American men, Women, and children?
7) What was the Emergency Quota Act of 1921? Where was immigration limited from?
http://library.uwb.edu/guides/USimmigration/1921_emergency_quota_law.html
8) Attorney General A. Mitchel Palmer believed he need to protect people from what?
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007/december/palmer_122807
9) What was the purpose of the Fordney-McCumber tariff?
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Fordney-McCumber_Tariff.html
10) Look at the political cartoon as answer the following questions:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/library/alumni/online_exhibits/digital/redscare/HTMLCODE/C
HRON/RS134.HTM
Why might Soviet doctrines be written on one of the boards used to “shut out
the light”?
How are the two men in the cartoon different?
Summarize the main idea of this political cartoon.