22.3-22.4 quiz
All the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT that he
lost the 1924 nomination to William McAdoo.
As president, Warren Harding
never abandoned the party hacks who had brought him to success
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved
transfers of national oil reserves
In the 1920s, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon succeeded in
All these answers are correct.
Which of the following is true of the passage and application of the Eighteenth Amendment?
All these answers are correct.
After World War I, the new Ku Klux Klan
became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners
The National Origins Act of 1924
entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States
To Herbert Hoover, "associationalism" meant
the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries.
Calvin Coolidge
was less active a president than Warren Harding.
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
a champion of business cooperation
In the 1920s, the "noble experiment" referred to
the prohibition of alcohol.
The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between
creationism and evolution.
As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,
fundamentalists reduced their political activism
Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part, because
he failed to carry the South.
Throughout the 1920s, the federal government
saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government
In the election of 1924, among the political parties,
the Democratic Party was seriously divided
Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in
their passive approach to the presidency.
