1920s
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 pledged the signatory nations to
renounce war as an instrument of foreign policy
President Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans' desire to
return to normal life after the war
The 1920's are sometimes called the "Roaring Twenties" because
widespread social and economic change occurred
In the 1920s, the KKK
grew to a membership of 4.5 million
Which word is not matched to the correct definition?
grungy; dirty
In the 1920's, the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial were typical of the
increase in nativism and intolerance
In the United States, the decade of the 1920's was characterized by
increased consumer borrowing and spending
The economic boom and the financial speculation of the 1920's were caused in part by
installment buying and an unregulated stock market
After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by
avoiding involvement in European affairs
The stock market crash weakened the nation's banks because
banks had invested their deposits in the stock market
By the mid-1920s,
-Al Capone had created a Chicago empire based on selling illegal liquor -Many Americans believed that Prohibition interfered with their personal freedom. -Only nineteen percent of all Americans supported Prohibition.
The national baseball hero in the 1920s was
Babe Ruth
October 29, 1929, the day when stock prices took the steepest dive of that time, is known as
Black Tuesday
The political party affiliation of all three presidents (Harding, Coolidge, Hoover) of the 1920s was
Republican
President Coolidge's simple and frugal manner contrasted not only with Harding but also with the spirit of the time - the booming, materialistic era of the
Roaring Twenties
The two most famous victims of the Red Scare were
Sacco and Vanzetti
President Harding's secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves, causing a scandal that came to be known as the
Teapot Dome Scandal
Most Americans in the 1920s supported all of the following EXCEPT:
The League of Nations
Which statement best describes the administrations of Harding and Coolidge?
The business of government is business!
The Ohio Gang was
a group of Harding's friends who acted corruptly in his administration
Which of the following was an effect of radio on American culture?
a shared national culture
President Coolidge
admired wealth became president after Harding died ran with the slogan "Be Cool with Coolidge" in 1924
To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to
advertising via radio and billboards
One effect of the Eighteenth Amendment was
an increase in federal policy powers
In 1929 the top five percent of all American households earned thirty percent of the nation's income, which is
an uneven distribution of wealth
Public disregard for Prohibition and for laws prohibiting gambling indicates that
attempts to legislate public morality may be met with strong resistance
Which of the following statements is most consistent with the philosophy of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association?
blacks should separate themselves from corrupt white society
President Coolidge's philosophy of government was that government should interfere with business and industry as little as possible and that prosperity rested on the shoulder of
business leadership
For some banks, the losses they suffered in the crash were more than they could absorb and they were force to
close, causing people to lose their deposits
In order to protect loans made by stockbrokers to investors who bough stocks on margin, brokers could issue a
collateral
The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's was a period when African Americans
created noteworthy works of art and literature
1920s slang such as "ossified," "spifflicated" and "bent" demonstrates that
drinking was very popular in the 20s, despite Prohibition
The purpose of the Volstead Act was to
enforce Prohibition
All of the following were characteristics of the "Lost Generation" EXCEPT: -disillusionment with modern life -a sense of lost values and purpose -decadence as a way to survive the horrors of the aftermath of the First World War - interest in the US involving itself in world affairs
interest in the US involving itself in world affairs
he Republicans returned to power with the election of Warren G. Harding in 1920. The new president's call for a "return to normalcy" meant:
isolation and protectionism
American foreign policy during the 1920s tended to be
isolationism
The most important reason that Prohibition failed was because
many Americans believed the law interfered with their personal freedom
President Coolidge believed that government should
not interfere with business
Which word is not matched to the correct definition? gam; leg cat's meow; wonderful bell bottom; sailor ossified; happy
ossified; happy
Stock prices first began to decline in late 1929 because
overprodcution of goods caused company earnings to decline
In the 1920s, the US Congress, in response to nativism pressure, decided to create
quota systems
A significant cause of the Great Depression of the 1930's was that
some banking policies were unsound and had led to the overexpansion of credit
All of the following were part of American Economic policy during the 1920s EXCEPT: low taxes protections for business high tariffs Correct! strict regulation of the economy
strict regulation of the economy
Part of the reason for the stock market crash was
the buying of great amounts of stock "on margin"
The Harlem Renaissance refers to
the movement of black artists, poets, and writers who expressed their pride in being black