Chapter 22

Réussis tes devoirs et examens dès maintenant avec Quizwiz!

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


Ensembles d'études connexes

Org Compensation and Rewards Test 2

View Set

Diagnostic Microbiology Chapter 5

View Set

Chapter 4 Translation and Protein Structure

View Set

Pneumo and Critical Care Medicine

View Set

NUR 108 Ch 12: Collaborative Practice and Care Coordination across Settings

View Set

Philosophy 101 Final: Fill in the blank questions

View Set