history chapter 24

Marcus Garvey brought his organization, the ______, to the United States in 1916.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

Attitudes toward women changed significantly during the 1920s, in part because of the many services and dangerous jobs they performed during

WW1

Which of the following thwarted black Americans' hopes for social equality following World War I?

racial violence unemployment

What was the aim of the Eighteenth Amendment?

to reduce alcohol consumption

Members of which of the following groups were least likely to be traditionalists?

urban workers

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was a multilateral agreement that outlawed _____________.

war

In 1919 Alfred Sloan founded the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which

was the nation's first consumer credit organization.

All of the following were groups targeted by the revived Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s EXCEPT FOR

women

F. Scott Fitzgerald , T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Sinclair Lewis were all notable _______________ during the decae of the twenties.

writers

Which of the following were changes in the American electorate that became evident in the 1928 presidential election?

The voters of the Democratic Party living in cities gained an edge over the party's traditional rural southern base.

Which of the following best describes the new managerial elite who emerged in the 1920s?

They used their earnings to aggressively expand their companies.

In the 1920s more and more states adopted a tax on ____ to finance the construction of the roads that made suburban living possible.

gasoline

What "Kiss-Me Clubs" lacked in real power, they made up for with

health and safety insurance.

Henry Ford's great contribution to modern industrial culture was

his commitment to standardization and assembly-line mass production

Labor shortages during World War I prompted the migration of half a million African Americans from the rural South to

industrial north

Although once confined to sewing machines and pianos, the increased availability of ______ resulted in a steep rise in consumer debt during the 1920s.

installment buying

The most daringly attired women of the 1920s were known as

flappers

Critics charged that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted mainly because they were

foreign-born radicals.

Along with Hollywood films, radio grew dramatically as a popular and influential mass medium in the 1920s, and became a fixture of the American home.

T

The rapid technological advances in the workplace, which eliminated the positions of many thousands of workers, gave rise to the phrase

"technological unemployment."

Which of the following statements accurately describe the expansion of radio broadcasting after the opening of the first licensed radio station in 1920?

-At first radio was seen as an outlet for high culture, but it became more commercial as its listener base broadened. -By the end of the 1920s, nearly one-third of American homes had a radio.

By the end of the 1920s, what proportion of Americans held jobs connected to the building of automobiles?

1/4

In the 1920s Americans' real wages, or wages valued in purchasing power, increased by

20%

Which of the following is true of the attitude of the federal government toward big business during the 'Twenties?

All branches of the government were favorably disposed to business and industry.

Which of the following contributed to the precipitous decline in farming income during the 1920s?

Americans were eating considerably less food each year than they had in 1910. The demand for American food exports dropped. The government withdrew wartime price supports for wheat.

Which of the following was NOT a Republican president during the 1920s?

Charles Evans Hughes

Who was by far the most popular and well-known celebrity of the 1920s?

Charles Lindbergh

became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Charles Lindbergh

Which one of the following was NOT a feature of the modern corporation in the 1920s?

Corporate power existed in the hands of stockholders rather than in company management.

Fundamentalists were particularly opposed to the theory of ___ and in 1925 they secured the passage of a Tennessee law against teaching it.

Darwinism

For which of the following reasons did alcohol lose out to gasoline as the primary source for fueling engines?

GM waged a relentless campaign against alcohol. Crude oil was abundant. Gasoline was cheaper to produce.

What was the trend in American union membership from 1921 to 1929?

It shrank significantly.

Which of the following correctly describe the modern Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s?

Klan meetings were family events. It was not confined to the South. It was no longer focused solely on hatred of African Americans; all minorities could be targeted.

Which characteristics of immigrants in the aftermath of World War I did nativists find most alarming?

Many immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe. Many immigrants came from Mexico. Most immigrants were Catholics and Jews.

In the 1870s a group of liberal Protestants started a movement known as _____ which was an attempt to make Christianity more relevant to contemporary life.

Modernism

Which of the following WAS NOT a boom industry of the 1920s?

Nuclear power production.

Which of the following were among the main sources of support for Prohibition?

Protestant churches

Examples of the "defenders of the faith" of traditional America against modern urban culture in the 1920s include prohibition, which reduced both drinking and respect for the law.

T

The outpouring of literature and art by the "New Negro" of the 1920s became known as the Harlem Renaissance.

T

The term often used to refer to the "new woman" of the Roaring Twenties was "flappers".

T

True or false: As more of the country's industries produced consumer goods, prosperity depended more and more on consumption.

T

Fundamentalists in the 1920s believed which of the following?

The Creation account in Genesis was to be read literally. Jesus was resurrected. Christ was born to a virgin mother.

Between 1910 and 1915, two wealthy businessmen subsidized a series of pamphlets called The Fundamentals that called for

a return to the "fundamentals" of Christian faith.

What might be called a "second or post-Industrial Revolution," the "roaring economy" of the 1920s involved all the following EXCEPT

a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor unions.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian anarchists who were sentenced to death for

a shoe company robbery and murder.

Which of the following individuals could be said to have capitalized on the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution?

al capone

The goal of the ___ Plan was to eliminate "closed shops," or companies where only union members could work.

american

The dominance of a few firms over an entire industry is known as

an oligopoly.

According to President Coolidge, "The business of America" was

business

In the 1920s the ultimate visible symbol of social equality and freedom was the

car

the ___ industry contributed to the future use of oil for energy

car

Among Harding's accomplishments in his short administration were which of the following?

clearing a scandal from the Veterans' Bureau creation of the Bureau of the Budget setting a congressional agenda to expand the merchant marine

By 1930 what sport was attracting fans in greater numbers than major league baseball?

college football

After the war, the ____ industry boomed as towers, suburbs, and roads were built.

construction

Stockholders lost $10 billion during trading on October 29, 1929, and the downward slide in stock values

continued for almost four years.

In the postwar years, advertising and ___ were seen as ways to fuel consumption of goods.

credit

At parties, what replaced things like charades, card tricks, and recitation?

dancing

Harding's leadership style relied upon

delegating power.

American writers of the 1920s who left home to enjoy the freedoms of life in Europe were known as

expatriates

True or false: Farmers benefited economically as much as corporations and other businesses from the pro-business government policies of the 1920s.

f

True or false: The Great Crash caused the Great Depression.

f

Which totally unique and wholly American art form was introduced during the decade of the twenties?

jazz music

Representatives of the Ku Klux Klan dominated the ______ in Indiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Oregon.

legislatures

In what novel did Sinclair Lewis create a scathing portrait of life in a small midwestern town?

main street

Ford drove down production costs by implementing the moving assembly line and

making all of the automobiles alike.

What process did Henry Ford introduce that halved the time it took to assemble a car?

moving assembly line

Harding described his politics as one of

normalcy.

What fueled the first diesel engines?

peanut oil

New technology enabled fewer factory workers to create more products, which in turn helped keep ______ down.

prices

The National Origins Act fixed immigration patterns for four decades; it

put strict quotas on the number of immigrants to be allowed into the U.S. every year.

Traditionalists valued ______ in race, religion, and ethnicity.

sameness

Which features of modern life troubled American religious conservatives in the New Era?

secular views of the Bible the relativity of moral values Darwinism and pragmatism

For labor unions, the 1920s was a decade of

serious decline in membership.

Which of the following were values of the traditionalists who felt embattled by the changes of the New Era?

small communities close-knit neighborhoods homogeneity of race, religion, and ethnicity

By the late 1920s, the stock market was taken over by ___ or buying and selling with the expectation that prices will continue to rise, leading to quick gains.

speculation

At a conference held in Washington in 1921, the Five-Power Agreement involved

steps toward naval disarmament.

The postwar residential construction boom was mostly in

suburbs

For more than a decade, Mellon sought to encourage investment by lowering ____ on high incomes and corporations.

taxes

The "revolution in manners and morals" during the postwar years was widely attributed to the behavior of

the "New Woman."

Motion pictures were accessible to virtually every American because

the power of the images made it unnecessary for audiences to be literate.

One of the most important economic transformations in the years after World War I was

the shift in production from heavy industry to consumer goods and services