Chapter 24- Toward a Modern America: The 1920s

Innovations in the movie industry of the 1920s included all of the following except

Using the mass growth of commercial television to promote films

As the nation's productivity increased

Wages were not proportionately raised

Suburbanization in the 1920s

Was made possible by the success of the automobile

Politicians stop supporting women's reform issues

When they realized women were not voting as a bloc

Which statement about the Harding administration is not true?

The open shop movement was opposed by Harding's top advisers

After the 1920 elections Republicans controlled

The presidency and both houses of Congress

The most ominous trend of the 1920s was

The uneven distribution of wealth that existed beneath apparent prosperity

Which writer is not associated with the Lost Generation?

Stephen Crane

Which statement about living patterns in the 1920s is not true?

The majority of Americans still lived in rural areas

He nurtured close ties between the government and business community during his tenure as secretary of commerce

Andrew Mellon

In which of the following decades were cultural clashes the greatest

1960s

Which statement about the economy of the 1920s is true?

A decline in installment buying revealed the underlying weakness of the economy

The main force behind the 1920s economy was

Automobile production

Jazz had its roots in (blank) music

African-American

As Secretary of the interior, he went to jail for his corrupt role in the Teapot Dome scandal

Albert fall

Sen. George Norris of Nebraska criticized the Harding administration for

Allowing big business to dominate American life

In the 1920s, Europeans used the term Fordize as a synonym for

Americanize

As secretary of treasury, he promoted "trickle-down" economic policies by pressing Congress to reduce taxes on businesses and the rich

Andrew Mellon

Dupont emerged as a powerful corporation in the

Chemical industry

During the Harding administration, the Supreme Court

Became substantially more pro-business

Charles Lindbergh became a celebrity when he

Became the first pilot to fly a plane across the Atlantic

Babe Ruth became a popular celebrity for all of the following reasons except his

Belief that celebrity status should be combined with political activism

In his book, The Man Nobody Knows, he portrayed Jesus Christ as the first salesman and founder of modern business philosophy

Bruce Barton

Which statement about industry in the 1920s is NOT true?

Businesses rejected any implementation of Taylor's scientific management

Poet and novelist whose Home to Harlem provided sensitive insight into the new black working-class of the urban North

Claude McKay

As a director of epic films such as The Ten Commandments, he emerged as one of the most popular directors of the 1920s

Cecile B. De Mille

When real wages failed to keep pace in the period from 1923 to 1927

Consumers began to rely more heavily on installment plans

Calvin Coolidge

Continued Harding's pro-business themes

Proponents of welfare capitalism believed that

Corporations could undercut unions by providing certain benefits

By the 1920s, workers in Henry Ford's automobile industry

Did their work in a solemn atmosphere that emphasized making money over individuality

The Republican presidents of the 1920s

Emphasized the importance of business interests

Effects of the Great Migration included all of the following except

Ending housing and job discrimination in the north

The Scopes Trial revealed fundamentalists' discomfort with

Evolutionary science

In his novel The Great Gatsby, he analyzed contemporary life by tracing the self-deceptions of the rich

F Scott Fitzgerald

The Harlem Renaissance

Featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era

What would be the only group viewed favorably by the Ku Klux Klan?

German Protestants

Several sick industries experienced all of the following problems except

High corporate taxes

Factors that led to Herbert Hoover's victory in 1928 included all of the following except

Hoover's anti-prohibition stance drew new Republican votes from ethnic workers

Which group would have not been strong supporters of prohibition?

Immigrants in urban ethnic areas

The "Good Neighbor Policy" was designed to

Improve relations with nations in Latin America

In an effort to expand markets and avoid foreign tariffs, US companies

Increasingly became multinational corporations

The Teapot Dome scandal

Involved government officials illegally leasing land to oil companies

Which statement about the development of the radio industry is not true?

It was not until the 1930s that radio experienced a large boom in popularity

A 1929 law prohibited immigration from

Japan

All of the following statements about the election of 1924 are true except

John W Davis emerged as a formidable opponent for Calvin Coolidge

Poet of the Harlem Renaissance whose use of dialect reflected the rhythm of blues and jazz

Langston Hughes

His popularity as a trumpet player was one of the hallmarks of the appeal that jazz had with Americans

Louis Armstrong

Black nationalist leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who rejected integration in favor of migration to Africa

Marcus Garvey

Which of the following was not a specific requirement for joining the Klan in the 1920s?

Middle class or above

Leader of an anti-Ku Klux Klan political ticket in Texas

Miriam "Ma" Ferguson

During the 1920s, American agriculture

Never recovered from the depression of 1921

The term (blank) refers to a situation in which a few large corporations control an industry

Oligopoly

All of the following statements about the film industry of the 20s are true except

The movie industry experienced sluggish box office sales after 1925

The Sheppard-Towner Act

Provided federal funds for infant and maternity care

Blacks migrated to the urban north for all of the following reasons except

Racial discrimination was not a part of life in the north

Effects of the automobile industry's growth included all of the following except

Reducing the use of assembly-line production

In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

Rejected traditional values and the idealism of his youth

In the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the US

Renounced aggression and condemned war

Nativists promoted

Restricting immigration of people who were not Anglo-Saxon

The textile industry coped with a drop in economic prosperity by

Shifting operations to the cheap labor south

The National Origins Act of 1924 was aimed at limiting the immigration of

Southern and Eastern Europeans and Japanese

Which statement about the Ku Klux Klan is not true?

The Ku Klux Klan's membership was restricted to whites of any ethnic background

A major industrial trend of the 1920s was

The concentration of wealth in the large terms of an industry

All of the following were aspects of the open shop campaign except

The extension of collective-bargaining rights for unskilled laborers