Chapter 9 US DC History Set

How many kickbacks were given in return of these drillings to Harding?

$300,000 worth of gifts

Names of the 1920 era:

1. Roaring 20's 2.Jazz age 3. Harlem Renaissance

What is the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928?

A global agreement to maintain peace by reducing naval power and other weaponry and reducing ships

who was the secretary interior that made allowance of leasing lands that contained us navy oil?

Albert B. Fall

uneven prosperity

Appalachia and poor whites were left out of new business

Which of the following does NOT describe the new Ku Klux Klan (1915)? A)It extended its membership outside the old Confederate states. B)It confined its activities to protests and symbolism rather than violence. C)It extended its attacks to include immigrants, Catholics, and Jews. D)It assumed the role of self-appointed guardian of traditional values .E)It expanded its membership into industrial cities.

B)It confined its activities to protests and symbolism rather than violence.

The essence of welfare capitalism was A)company-provided benefits for workers. B)company-provided bonuses for management. C)government-provided employment benefits for workers .D)government-provided financial aid for troubled industries. E)government-provided bonuses for management.

Company-provided benefits for workers.

Four of the following statements accurately describe the "noble experiment" of prohibition. Which is the exception? A)Its enforcement was ludicrously ineffective in some areas. B)It stimulated the growth of organized crime. C)Begun as a middle-class progressive reform, prohibition was later supported largely by rural Protestant Americans. D)Drinking was associated with the "modern" city. E)The Great Depression hindered efforts to repeal prohibition.

E)The Great Depression hindered efforts to repeal prohibition.

A Christian fundamentalist is one who A)believes in the fundamental inerrancy of the New Testament. B)wishes to base morality on secular rather than religious fundamentals. C)accepts the basic or fundamental truths of all the world's religions in the spirit of ecumenicism. D)believes in the basic or fundamental general ideas of the Bible but not in the literal truth of every statement. E)adapts religion to modern science.

E)adapts religion to modern science.

Which of the following industries was most closely associated with the rise of consumerism in America in the 1920s?A)banking B)insurance C)automobiles D)fast-food chains E)advertising

E)advertising

Feminists such as Alice Paul championed the Sheppard-Towner Act because it provided federal funds for child health-care.

False

in 1920, the first radiostation was in

Pittsburgh

The "welfare capitalism" of the 1920s did NOT provide American workers any A)tangible economic gains. B)real control over their own fates. C)psychological comfort. D)opportunity for organization. E)low labor costs.

Psychological comfort

What was the scandal called?

Teapot Dome Scandal

What was special about airplanes?

The Lindbergh transatlantic solo flight in 1927.

What is the Dawes Plan?

The US gave loans back to countries in Europe so they could continue to buy American goods.

when prohibition went into affect in 1920, it had the support of not only middle class but most progressives aswell.

True

Herbert hoover considered himself

a champion of business cooperation

In the 1920s bestseller, The Man Nobody Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as

a salesman

After WW1, the new ku klux klan

became primarily concerned about catholics, jews, and foreigners

As president, Warren Harding

never abandoned the party hacks who had brought him to success

Nativism

predjudice towards foreign born

A. Phillip Randolph

started the brotherhood of sleeping car porters he was a leader of financial and civil rights movement

What are supply side economics and what is their nickname?

tax breaks for the rich and tax increases for the middle/poor class; idea was that rich would give poor more job opportunities but this was clearly a problem. also called trickle down economics.

What did the US have to do with Isolationism?

the US decided to stay out of europe and everyone else's business post ww1.

in the election of 1924, among political parties

the democrats were seriously divided

fitsgerald

the great gatsby, criticized US for materialized wealth

During the 1920s, a great worry for industrialists was the fear of

the overproduction of goods

In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was

to ensure farmers would at least financially break even

union membership fell from 5 mill to 3 mill

true

During the 1920s, birth control in the U.S.

was illegal, in some form, in many states

During the 1920s, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

was one of the few unions led by an African American

ernest hemingway

wrote for whome the bell tolls,a farewell to arms, and the sun also rises

In the 1920s and after, the term "parity" was used to refer to A)a fair exchange price for farm crops .B)equal pay for union and nonunion workers. C)equal pay for equal work for males and females. D)equal employment opportunities for black and whites. E)equal pay for blacks and whites.

A)a fair exchange price for farm crops

The Harlem Renaissance referred to A)a movement in black literature, art, and music. B)the spread of jazz to the cities of the North. C)a movement in New York to improve the conditions of recent immigrants to the United States. D)a back-to-Africa movement among black intellectuals who had repudiated American values. E)a time of revitalization of New York politics.

A)a movement in black literature, art, and music.

which of the following is true of the passage and application of the 18th Amendment? A.Reduced drinking in some areas of the country B.the federal government did not commission enough agents to effectively enforce the law C.organized crime gained exclusive access to an enormous lucrative industry D.many of the middle-class progressives who had originally supported prohibition begin to oppose the experiment E. all

All are correct

During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the United States included A. synthetic fibers. B. plastics. C. home appliances. D. electronics. E. All these answers are correct.

All of these answers are correct

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the immigration laws passed in 1921 and 1924? A)The number of immigrants allowed into the country was reduced. B)Restrictions on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean immigration was eased. C)The number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States was expressed as quotas based on a percentage of the number of each national group already in the country at a base year. D)The provisions favored immigration from northwestern Europe. E)The provisions did not favor eastern Europeans.

B)Restrictions on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean immigration was eased.

The most important problem faced by the Democratic Party in the 1920s was A)a serious split between urban and rural wings of the party. B)the party was losing its traditional strength in the South. C)the fact that recent immigrants no longer tended to support the party. D)the restriction of immigration reduced the number of recruits to the party. E)Ku Klux Klan members were becoming associated with the party.

B)the party was losing its traditional strength in the South.

Installment buying

Credit became commonplace and would put a portion down and buy the rest with credit.

The "American Plan" was a(n) A)effort to revive patriotism that had flagged after the war. B)effort to convince Americans not to buy products manufactured in other nations. C)crusade for the open shop in American corporations. D)plan to Americanize European immigrants. E)effort to combat communism in America.

Crusade for the open shop in American corporations

A principal theme of Sinclair Lewis's novels was A)utopian optimism for the future. B)romantic idealization of the past. C)acceptance of modern American society as the best of all possible worlds. D)contempt for modern American society. E)rejection of the "success ethic."

D)contempt for modern American society.

John T. Scopes was accused of the "crime" of teaching A)the advantages of labor union membership. B)that Christianity should dominate America. C)that communism had advantages in some societies. D)that Darwinian evolution best explains the origins of humans. E)effective birth control methods.

D)that Darwinian evolution best explains the origins of humans.

In the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgearld A. glorified wealthy Americans as examples of the "success ethic" B. ridiculed the hypocritical behavior of some in evangelical religion C. satirized the inequalities in American politics D. criticized the American obsession with material wealth E. dramatized the plight of midwestern farmers

D. criticized the American obsession with material wealth

Margaret Sanger was significant to American social and cultural life in the 1920s as a promoter of A)temperance. B)the "debunkers." C)progressive education .D)movies. E)the birth-control movement.

E)the birth-control movement.

In the 1920s, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by A. the theory of modulation. B. the use of vacuum tubes. C. its ability to receive more than just simple pulses. D. both the theory of modulation and the use of vacuum tubes. E. All these answers are correct.

E. All these answers are correct.

during the 1920s, the KKK grew focused on southern segregation

False

most working-class americans saw their wages decline during the 1920s

False

the AFL began turning away from the idea of craft unions

False

the practice of welfare capitalism involved most industrial workers

False

During the 1920s, Thomas Hunt Morgan was one of the American pioneers in...

Genetic Research

The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts, and even democracy itself, was

H.L. Mencken

Harding was meant to be impeached, what happened?

He died in office and Calvin Coolidge took over as a less controversial figure.

Who influenced the assembly line?

Henry Ford with the model T automobile

What was the first radio station?

Pittsburgh, east of Mississippi river KDKA radio station special for having no W in front of it

AM Radio waves travel farther and FM bands have better sound

True

Both Harding and Coolidge took essentially passive approaches to the presidency

True

In the 1920s, as agriculture brought millions of acres of new land under cultivation, three million people left the farm sector.

True

Prohibition did substantially reduce drinking in some parts of the United States.

True

The majority of the 25 percent of married women who worked outside the home in the 1920s were working class.

True

during the 1920s, union membership fell from 5 mill to 3 mill

True

fundamentalism was gaining political power during the middle of the 1920s

True

more so than republicans, democrats of the 1920s consisted of a diverse coalition of interest groups

True

the federal government enjoyed a supportive relationship with the American business community

True

the film the birth of a nation glorified the early ku klux klan

True

the scopes trial of 1925 resulted in a guilty verdict but it also put fundamentalists on the defensive

True

Which presidents gave trickle down economics a try?

Trump, Reagan, Bush, and Hoover

Enrollment in colleges and universities increased threefold between 1900 and 1930, with much of that increase occurring after...

WW1

Who was the president in 1920?

Warren Harding

who was famous for having a scandal during his administration?

Warren Harding

During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor (AFL)

believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills

KKK

both nativist and racist towards catholic jews and immigrants, at its peak and mainstream in 1920,

the scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between

creationism and evolution

what was wrong with wages increasing?

employers wages increased by 2x an employee and the minimum standard of living was $1800, while most were bringing $1500

during the 1920s, the national women's party campaigned primarily for the

equal rights amendment

H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald are all examples of writers who promoted a return of the progressive reform spirit in US

false

Farm Crisis

farmers had large inventories and not enough buyers so they asked the government for tariffs on foreign crops and price control but they refused to help.

During the 1920s, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following (A rise in wages, income levels at "minimum comfort level", little control over economic fate, and few opportunities to join a company union) EXCEPT

few opportunities to join a company union

During the 1920s, wages for American workers

generally rose at a rate far below increases in production and profits

welfare capitalism

giving workers benefits like vacation, sick days, insurance, etc to keep labor unions down

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

had a particular impact on lower-middle-class single women

Al Smith lost the 1928 election partially because

he failed to carry the south

During Harding's administration, the teapot dome scandal

involved transfers of national oil reserves

Suburbia is

living outside of cities with the new way of travel

In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists argued

mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.

In the workplace, the "open shop" meant

no worker was required to join a union

racism

predjudice towards skin color

Shepard-Towner Act of 1921

provided federal funds for child health care programs

Disposable income is

reduced work hours to 8, gained more leisure time

edith wharton

rich ironic writer that wrote age of inocence

Throughout the 1920s, the federal government

saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government

In the 1920s, a growing interest in birth control among middle-class women resulted from

the attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only.

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the weakness of the organized labor movement in America in the 1920s? A)hostility of the courts and the Justice Department to union activities B)the propaganda promoted by corporate leaders that unionism was un-American C)the large numbers of unskilled workers who found no place in the craft orientation of the AFL D)the strength of corporations E)the radical leadership of the AFL

the radical leadership of the AFL