Chapter 12 Questions

1. Describe the Boston Police Strike.
2. Describe the Steel Mill strike.
3. Describe the Coal Miners Strike.
4.  Describe the Washington Naval Conference.
5.  Describe the Kellogg-Briand pact
6. Who were the Nativists and what were their goals?
7. Describe the Teapot Dome Scandal.
8. Describe the Fordney-McCumber Tariff.
9. Describe the events that led to the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
10.  Who was A. Mitchell Palmer? Explain the quote by A. Mitchell Palmer from p.431.
11. What was the goal of the Palmer Raids?
12.  Describe what buying goods on credit meant.
13.  Who did Marx and Engles urge to seize political power?
14.  How did the automobile affect urban sprawl?
15. How did the U.S. limit immigration to the U.S.?
16.  How did Listerine convince women that they needed mouthwash?
17. What was Route 66?
18. How did the Ku Klux Klan expand its membership during the 1920’s?
19. What did Warren G. Harding mean by the term “A return to Normalcy”?
20.  What was The Ohio Gang?