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