Ch 22 APUSH multiple choice
During the 1920s, when $1,800 was considered the minimum annual income for a decent standard of living, the average annual income of a worker was approximately
$1,500
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
A champion of business cooperation.
During the 1920s, all of the following immigrant groups were increasing their presence in the labor force in the West and Southwest EXCEPT the
Chinese
In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle
Had a particular impact on the lower middle-class and single women
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
No worker was required to join a union
In 1920, the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the United States was in
Pittsburgh
In the 1920s, a growing interest in birth control among middle-class women resulted in
The attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only
In the 1920s, the "noble experiment" referred to
The prohibition of alcohol
In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was
To ensure farmers would at least financially break even
In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"
Was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers
In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
criticized the American obsession with material wealth
As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,
fundamentalists reduced their participation in political activism
During the 1920s, Thomas Hunt Morgan was one of the American pioneers in
genetic research
All of the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT
he lost the 1924 nomination to William McAdoo
As President, Warren Harding
never abandoned the party hacks who had brought him to success.
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan
opposed the existing diversity of American society
During the 1920s, a great worry for industrialists was the fear of
overproduction of goods
The Sheppard-Towner act of 1921
provided federal funds for child health care programs
During the 1920s, the greatest sustained support for the eighteenth amendment came from
rural Protestants
Throughout the 1920s, the federal government
saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government
Throughout the 1920s the performance of the United States economy
saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities
Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in
their passive approach to the presidency
During the 1920s, airplanes
were largely a source of entertainment