Chapter 17 Self-Check quizzes

Who was the first cabinet official in U.S. history to go to prison?

Albert Fall

Which two of Harding's appointees remained under President Coolidge and contributed greatly to the prosperity of the 1920s?

Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover

_______ was a great writer of the 1920s who wrote about "heroic antiheroes" in World War I.

Ernest Hemmingway

Which describes the factors that led to the "quiet depression" in American agriculture after World War I?

European demand for crops dropped, while farmers' debts remained the same.

What exerted a great deal of influence on modernist American art movements in the 1920s?

European movements

How was Marcus Garvey successful in influencing African American culture?

He instilled African Americans with a sense of pride in their culture and heritage.

What distinguished Carl Sandburg from other writers before him?

He used common speech to glorify the Midwest.

In what way did the mass media promote social change?

It broke down provincialism by exposing people to new ideas.

How did the Harlem Renaissance transform African American society?

It brought international fame to African American artists and spurred political activism.

What was the result of the Kelly Act, passed by Congress in 1925?

It gave commercial airlines an economic boost.

What was one of the major political successes of the NAACP?

It helped block the Supreme Court nomination of an alleged racist.

Why did the mass media help unify Americans?

It reached millions of people who were all exposed to the same information and ideas.

What did the 1924 National Origins Act do?

It restricted immigration in a way that favored northwestern European countries.

What was the success of the Washington Conference?

It resulted in several countries agreeing to a moratorium on the construction of warships.

What was the significance of the movie The Jazz Singer?

It was the first talking movie.

_______, a prolific and original writer, became a leading voice on the African American experience in America.

Langston Hughes

Consumerism led to which of the following changes in views on debt and borrowing?

More Americans found it acceptable to use consumer credit for purchases.

What was the primary result of the Great Migration?

Northern cities became key centers of African American culture.

What fact about the Sacco-Vanzetti case prejudiced the jury into convicting them for murder?

Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrant anarchists.

_______ was the most famous nightclub in Harlem in which many musical greats got their start.

The Cotton Club

How did the "new morality" of the 1920s change traditional views of marriage?

The ideals of romantic love and friendship became more important.

How did African Americans influence politics in the 1920s?

Their numbers in Northern cities made them a powerful voting bloc.

One of the striking features of African American writing in the 1920s, as exemplified in Claude McKay's work, was

a bitter contempt for racism.

What caused the emergence of the new consumer products which flooded the market in the 1920s?

a rise in disposable income

Rather than relying on armed force to influence global policy during the 1920s, the U.S. used _______.

economic policies and arms agreements

What new type of products changed the lives of homemakers in the 1920s?

electric appliances

Women who wore makeup, drank prohibited liquor, and smoked cigarettes in the 1920s were called _______.

flappers

Much of the turmoil of the early 1920s was blamed on _______.

immigrants

Louis Armstrong is credited with developing an early form of this style of music, which combined Dixieland blues and ragtime, called

jazz

What technological advancement in industry allowed for shorter workweeks for factory workers?

mass production

The belief that one's homeland needs to be protected from immigrants is called _______.

nativism

Fundamentalists were active in which social movement that pushed for the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment?

prohibition

What position did Herbert Hoover hold in the Coolidge administration?

secretary of commerce

During the Forbes Scandal, what was Colonel Charles Forbes accused of doing?

selling scarce medical supplies from veterans' hospitals for personal profit

What entertaining pastime rose to new heights of popularity because of the mass media?

sports

Mellon's principle of cutting tax rates in order to stimulate the economy is known today as _______.

supply-side, or "trickle down," economics

The 1920s movement that believed the Christian Bible was literally true and denied the theory of evolution was _______.

the Fundamentalist Movement

The explosion of African American arts, music, and political activity in the 1920s became known as

the Harlem Renaissance.

Anger against immigrants and emerging racial tensions over jobs led to the rise of which previously defunct group?

the Ku Klux Klan

President Harding's cabinet appointments, including his friends from Ohio, were referred to as _______.

the Ohio Gang

Which famous scandal involved the secretary of the interior taking bribes to lease oil reserves to private interests?

the Teapot Dome Scandal

What consumer product changed American society more than any other?

the automobile

The unconventional way in which many writers and artists lived during the 1920s was referred to as _______.

the bohemian lifestyle

What process, first adopted by Henry Ford, allowed the price of products to be reduced while volume of sales increased?

the moving assembly line

For women of the 1920s, new fashions represented ________.

their new social, economic, and intellectual freedoms

Why did Henry Ford double his factory workers' pay while decreasing their hours?

to create loyalty and counteract unionization

Attorney General Harry Daugherty was accused of accepting bribes in order to _______.

transfer ownership of a German-owned chemical company seized during World War I

What was the main focus of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence?

upper-class ignorance and pretensions

Pulitzer Prize winner Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote about _______.

women's equality and women's inner lives

What group of Americans found themselves let go from factory positions when servicemen returned from war?

African Americans