Chapter 22
During the 1920s, the agricultural economy of the United States saw
a sharp decline in farmers' incomes.
In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
drew heavily from their African heritage
As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,
fundamentalists reduced their political activism
During the 1920s, wages for American workers
generally rose at a rate far below increases in production and profits
During the 1920s, Thomas Hunt Morgan was one of the American pioneers in
genetic research
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
no worker was required to join a union
In the 1920s, the "wet's" and dry's referred to the conflict over
the prohibition of alcohol
Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in
their passive approach to the presidency
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
During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the United States included
All these answers are correct
During the 1920s, union membership fell from over 5 million to under 3 million
True
All the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT that he
lost the 1924 nomination to William McAdoo
During the 1920s, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT
many opportunities to join a union
In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists argued
mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children
In the 1920s, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon succeeded in
All these answers are correct
Flappers would best be associated with the rural, religious fundamentalism of the 1920s.
False
H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are all examples of writers who promoted a return of the progressive reform spirit in American society
False
Herbert Hoover was Secretary of the Treasury under Harding and Coolidge.
False
Modernism in art attempted to replicate objects with photographic precision
False
Prohibition did not allow for any exceptions in the sale or consumption of alcohol
False
The Harlem Renaissance refers to a group of African American actors in the silent films of the 1920s.
False
In 1920, the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the United States was in
Pittsburgh
Champions of parity for farmers urged high tariffs against foreign agricultural competition
True
In the 1920s, as agriculture brought millions of acres of new land under cultivation, three million people left the farm sector
True
The Scopes trial of 1925 resulted in a guilty verdict, but it also put fundamentalists on the defensive
True
The majority of married women who worked outside the home in the 1920s were working class
True
To Herbert Hoover, "associationalism" meant
the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries
During the 1920s, a great worry for industrialists was the fear of
the overproduction of goods
Calvin Coolidge
was less active a president than Warren Harding
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
Both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge failed to serve out their presidential terms
True
In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was
to ensure farmers would at least financially break even
As president, Warren Harding
was unable to abandon the party hacks who had brought him to succes
In the 1920s, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by
All these answers are correct
Which of the following is true of the passage and application of the Eighteenth Amendment, which prohibited the sale of alcohol?
All these answers are correct
The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts, and even democracy itself, was
H. L. Mencken
Both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge took essentially passive approaches to the presidency
True
High tariffs and low taxes were aspects of the Republican Formula to create an expanding economy in the 1920s.
True
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
a champion of business cooperation
After World War I, the new Ku Klux Klan
became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners
During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills
The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between
creationism and evolution
In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
criticized the American obsession with material wealth
The National Origins Act of 1924
entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States
In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle
had a particular impact on urban lower-middle-class and working-class
Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part because
he failed to carry the South
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
provided federal funds for child health-care programs
In the 1920s bestseller, The Man Nobody Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as
salesman
Throughout the 1920s, the federal government
saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government
Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy
saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities
In the election of 1924, among the political parties,
the Democratic Party was seriously divided
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved
transfers of national oil reserves
In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"
was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers
During the 1920s, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
was one of the few unions led by African Americans
During the 1920s, airplanes
were largely a source of entertainment