Chapter 9
Red Scare
A period of general fear of communists
Who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
A. Phillip Randolph
To persuade people to buy their products on what businesses increase spending?
Advertising
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Agreement to outlaw war
The biggest scandal of the Harding administration involved who?
Albert fall
What are people called who believe there should be no government?
Anarchists
What is an economic system based on private property and free enterprise called?
Capitalism
Reds
Communists
which of he following is a name for an economic downturn?
Depression
Where was the automobile manufacturing center of the world?
Detroit, Michigan
Which constitution amendment established prohibition?
Eighteenth
What was the name of the law that set up the quota system for limiting immigration to the us?
Emergency Quota Act
Charles Lindbergh made history, in 1927, by becoming the first man to fly an airplane around the world
False
Langston Hughes was one of the first African American jazz musicians.
False
Northern whites welcomed African American laborers who had left the South in search of jobs in the north
False
President Harding wanted to promote peace by joining the League of Nations
False
Prohibition was successful as a law enforcement tool against illegal gambling.
False
The quota system is scientific theory that humans evolved over vast periods of time.
False
Which treaty marked the first time in modern history the world powers agrees to disarm?
Five-power Treaty
What the nickname of the liberated women of the 1920's?
Flapper
What is the term for total value of goods and services produced by a nation
Gross national product
The blossoming of culture that spread from Harlem is often called the
Harlem renaissance
Many Americans supported President Warren G. Harding's policy on world affairs which was known as?
Isolationism
Who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
Marcus Garvey
By 1920, American troops were stationed in the Dominican Republic and which other Latin America country?
Nicaragua
Which amendment to the constitution guaranteed women in all states the right to vote?
Nineteenth amendment
President Warren G. Harding gave jobs to many of his friends, who came to be called by?
Ohio Gang
Who were the defendants involved in the case that suggested the depth of anti foreign and anti radical feelings in the United States in the 1920's?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Teapot Dome
Symbol of dishonesty
Creating new rhythms and melodies during a performance is called improvisation.
True
Henry Ford was a pioneer of the assembly line method of manufacturing.
True
The "noble experiment" referred to a ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor throughout the United States.
True
Welfare Capitalism was the effort of businesses to link workers more closely to the company they worked for
True
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G Harding's running mate
Who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial?
William Jennings Bryan
Which of the following people was a writer who came out of the Harlem Renaissance?
Zora Neale Hurston
deported
expelled from the United States
In which Treaty did the world powers agree to disarm?
five-powers treaty
African American leader Marcus Garvey offered a message of
racial pride
To increase productivity many employers hired experts in what?
scientific management
Eighteen strikers died in what industry's strike in 1919?
steelworkers
Red Agitators
strikers
Which practice was designed to link workers more closely with the company?
welfare capitalism