1920s

The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 pledged the signatory nations to

renounce war as an instrument of foreign policy

President Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans' desire to

return to normal life after the war

The 1920's are sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties" because

widespread social and economic change occurred

In the 1920s, the KKK

grew to a membership of 4.5 million

Which word is not matched to the correct definition?

grungy; dirty

In the 1920's, the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial were typical of the

increase in nativism and intolerance

In the United States, the decade of the 1920's was characterized by

increased consumer borrowing and spending

The economic boom and the financial speculation of the 1920's were caused in part by

installment buying and an unregulated stock market

After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by

avoiding involvement in European affairs

The stock market crash weakened the nation's banks because

banks had invested their deposits in the stock market

By the mid-1920s,

-Al Capone had created a Chicago empire based on selling illegal liquor -Many Americans believed that Prohibition interfered with their personal freedom. -Only nineteen percent of all Americans supported Prohibition.

The national baseball hero in the 1920s was

Babe Ruth

October 29, 1929, the day when stock prices took the steepest dive of that time, is known as

Black Tuesday

The political party affiliation of all three presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) of the 1920s was

Republican

President Coolidge's simple and frugal manner contrasted not only with Harding but also with the spirit of the time - the booming, materialistic era of the

Roaring Twenties

The two most famous victims of the Red Scare were

Sacco and Vanzetti

President Harding's secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves, causing a scandal that came to be known as the

Teapot Dome Scandal

Most Americans in the 1920s supported all of the following EXCEPT:

The League of Nations

Which statement best describes the administrations of Harding and Coolidge?

The business of government is business!

The Ohio Gang was

a group of Harding's friends who acted corruptly in his administration

Which of the following was an effect of radio on American culture?

a shared national culture

President Coolidge

admired wealth became president after Harding died ran with the slogan "Be Cool with Coolidge" in 1924

To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to

advertising via radio and billboards

One effect of the Eighteenth Amendment was

an increase in federal policy powers

In 1929 the top five percent of all American households earned thirty percent of the nation's income, which is

an uneven distribution of wealth

Public disregard for Prohibition and for laws prohibiting gambling indicates that

attempts to legislate public morality may be met with strong resistance

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the philosophy of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association?

blacks should separate themselves from corrupt white society

President Coolidge's philosophy of government was that government should interfere with business and industry as little as possible and that prosperity rested on the shoulder of

business leadership

For some banks, the losses they suffered in the crash were more than they could absorb and they were force to

close, causing people to lose their deposits

In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bough stocks on margin, brokers could issue a

collateral

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's was a period when African Americans

created noteworthy works of art and literature

1920s slang such as "ossified," "spifflicated" and "bent" demonstrates that

drinking was very popular in the 20s, despite Prohibition

The purpose of the Volstead Act was to

enforce Prohibition

All of the following were characteristics of the "Lost Generation" EXCEPT: -disillusionment with modern life -a sense of lost values and purpose -decadence as a way to survive the horrors of the aftermath of the First World War - interest in the US involving itself in world affairs

interest in the US involving itself in world affairs

he Republicans returned to power with the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920. The new president's call for a "return to normalcy" meant:

isolation and protectionism

American foreign policy during the 1920s tended to be

isolationism

The most important reason that Prohibition failed was because

many Americans believed the law interfered with their personal freedom

President Coolidge believed that government should

not interfere with business

Which word is not matched to the correct definition? gam; leg cat's meow; wonderful bell bottom; sailor ossified; happy

ossified; happy

Stock prices first began to decline in late 1929 because

overprodcution of goods caused company earnings to decline

In the 1920s, the US Congress, in response to nativism pressure, decided to create

quota systems

A significant cause of the Great Depression of the 1930's was that

some banking policies were unsound and had led to the overexpansion of credit

All of the following were part of American Economic policy during the 1920s EXCEPT: low taxes protections for business high tariffs Correct! strict regulation of the economy

strict regulation of the economy

Part of the reason for the stock market crash was

the buying of great amounts of stock "on margin"

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

the movement of black artists, poets, and writers who expressed their pride in being black