Ch 22 APUSH multiple choice

During the 1920s, when $1,800 was considered the minimum annual income for a decent standard of living, the average annual income of a worker was approximately

$1,500

As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself

A champion of business cooperation.

During the 1920s, all of the following immigrant groups were increasing their presence in the labor force in the West and Southwest EXCEPT the

Chinese

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

Had a particular impact on the lower middle-class and single women

In the workplace, the "open shop" meant

No worker was required to join a union

In 1920, the first commercial radio station to broadcast in the United States was in

Pittsburgh

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

The attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only

In the 1920s, the "noble experiment" referred to

The prohibition of alcohol

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

To ensure farmers would at least financially break even

In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"

Was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers

In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

criticized the American obsession with material wealth

As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,

fundamentalists reduced their participation in political activism

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

genetic research

All of the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT

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 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan

opposed the existing diversity of American society

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

overproduction of goods

The Sheppard-Towner act of 1921

provided federal funds for child health care programs

During the 1920s, the greatest sustained support for the eighteenth amendment came from

rural Protestants

Throughout the 1920s, the federal government

saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government

Throughout the 1920s the performance of the United States economy

saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities

Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in

their passive approach to the presidency

During the 1920s, airplanes

were largely a source of entertainment