CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
Effect:
Declining Power of
Labor Unions
Cause
Example
Example
Cause
Cause
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HAPTER 20
TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name below, write a sentence explain-
ing its connection to the decade following World War I.
1. communism 7. isolationism
2. Sacco and Vanzetti 8. quota system
3. Calvin Coolidge 9. Teapot Dome
4. John L. Lewis scandal
5. Warren G. Harding 10. installment plan
6. Fordney-McCumber
Tariff
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to
answer the following questions.
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
(pages 618–624)
1. Explain how the Red Scare, the Sacco and Vanzetti
case, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan reflected con-
cerns held by many Americans.
2. Describe the primary goal of the immigration quota
system established in 1921.
The Harding Presidency (pages 625–627)
3. What did Harding want to do to return America to
“normalcy”?
4. Summarize the Teapot Dome scandal.
The Business of America (pages 628–633)
5. How did changes in technology in the 1920s influence
American life?
6. What evidence suggests that the prosperity of the
1920s was not on a firm foundation?
CRITICAL THINKING
1. USING YOUR NOTES Create a cause-and-effect web,
similar to the one shown, in which you give several
causes for the declining power of labor unions in the
1920s and give examples of the unions’ decline.
2.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Calvin Coolidge said,
“After all, the chief business of the American people is
business.” What events and trends of the 1920s sup-
port Coolidge’s statement?
3.
INTERPRETING MAPS Look at the path of Route 66
in the map on page 629. What factors may have
influenced where and why the highway was built?
Explain your answer.
POLITICS OF THE ROARING TWENTIES
TECHNOLOGY/INDUSTRY
• growth of automobile industry
• introduction of airlines as
transportation
• widespread use of electricity
• advertising gains popularity
• a superficial prosperity ensued
• increased production of
consumer goods
• buying on credit
• increased standard of living and
consumer spending
ECONOMIC
GOVERNMENTAL
• election of pro-business
presidents Harding and Coolidge
• isolationist philosophy
• immigration quotas
• tariffs on imports to discourage
foreign business competition
• corruption in Harding’s
administration
VISUAL SUMMARY
• a perceived threat of communism
• fear and distrust of immigrants
• fear of the labor movement and
faith in business
• strikes and worker unrest
SOCIETAL/SOCIAL
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OSTWAR
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