Question 1

Who was the main subject in Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows ?

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A)  Henry Ford 
B)  Jesus Christ 
C)  Babe Ruth 
D)  Bartolomeo Vanzetti 
E)  Warren Harding 
A)  Henry Ford 
B)  Jesus Christ 
C)  Babe Ruth 
D)  Bartolomeo Vanzetti 
E)  Warren Harding

Question 2

In 1920, Warren Harding campaigned using the slogan, "A Return to Normalcy". How successful was he in doing this? Explain using specific examples

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Warren Harding's campaign slogan "A Retu

Question 3

In the 1920s, housework

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A)  made easier for middle-class housewives because they were able to hire immigrant women and farm girls for household help. 
B)  reduced in terms of hours and sheer physical effort thanks to electrification, store-bought clothing, and purchased food. 
C)  "socialized" through cooperative apartments, commercial laundries, and other collective forms of housework. 
D)  increased because industrialization and crowded urban conditions made homes dirtier. 
E)  became simpler because air conditioning and electric heat made homes cleaner. 
A)  made easier for middle-class housewives because they were able to hire immigrant women and farm girls for household help. 
B)  reduced in terms of hours and sheer physical effort thanks to electrification, store-bought clothing, and purchased food. 
C)  "socialized" through cooperative apartments, commercial laundries, and other collective forms of housework. 
D)  increased because industrialization and crowded urban conditions made homes dirtier. 
E)  became simpler because air conditioning and electric heat made homes cleaner.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. National Broadcasting Company

Accepted Answer

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Question 5

Discuss how advertising and consumerism shaped life in the 1920s. Did advertising and consumerism deliver on the promises they made to Americans? How did women, blacks, and immigrants fit into the picture of American life painted by advertisers?

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Advertising and consumerism played a sig

Question 6

Henry Ford led the way in industry by

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A)  pioneering a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to professionals in specialized divisions. 
B)  instituting worker-management teams to share decision making about production. 
C)  paying his workers higher wages to encourage consumerism. 
D)  breaking labor unions and replaced them with industry "worker associations." 
E)  paying his workers low wages to increase the profit margin. 
A)  pioneering a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to professionals in specialized divisions. 
B)  instituting worker-management teams to share decision making about production. 
C)  paying his workers higher wages to encourage consumerism. 
D)  breaking labor unions and replaced them with industry "worker associations." 
E)  paying his workers low wages to increase the profit margin.

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sheppard-Towner Act

Accepted Answer

The Sheppard-Towner Act, officially know

Question 8

What were the main issues surrounding the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the growth of fundamentalism, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case? What did the examples reveal about American society in the 1920s? Why?

Accepted Answer

The main issues surrounding the resurgen

Question 9

Which of the following was not one of the ways that the automobile affected American life?

Accepted Answer

A)  It gave young people freedom from parental oversight. 
B)  It broke down the isolation of rural life. 
C)  It let more prosperous Americans move out to the suburbs. 
D)  It increased mobility and headaches. 
E)  It created new stereotypes of feminine delicacy. 
A)  It gave young people freedom from parental oversight. 
B)  It broke down the isolation of rural life. 
C)  It let more prosperous Americans move out to the suburbs. 
D)  It increased mobility and headaches. 
E)  It created new stereotypes of feminine delicacy.

Question 10

What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff demonstrate about U.S. trade policy from 1920 to 1930?

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A)  the United States was committed to laissez-faire economics. 
B)  the United States was willing to raise tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers. 
C)  the United States wanted to maintain lower tariffs. 
D)  the concept free trade would never be abandoned. 
E)  the nation had completely abandoned the principles of free trade. 
A)  the United States was committed to laissez-faire economics. 
B)  the United States was willing to raise tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers. 
C)  the United States wanted to maintain lower tariffs. 
D)  the concept free trade would never be abandoned. 
E)  the nation had completely abandoned the principles of free trade.

Question 11

In the 1920s American business activities abroad

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A)  increased as American built foreign production facilities and acquired foreign sources of raw materials. 
B)  decreased as investment opportunities in United States production grew. 
C)  were outlawed in order to keep the American dollar at home. 
D)  decreased, particularly in Latin America, because foreign governments began to nationalize their industries. 
E)  ended, as a worldwide depression began. 
A)  increased as American built foreign production facilities and acquired foreign sources of raw materials. 
B)  decreased as investment opportunities in United States production grew. 
C)  were outlawed in order to keep the American dollar at home. 
D)  decreased, particularly in Latin America, because foreign governments began to nationalize their industries. 
E)  ended, as a worldwide depression began.

Question 12

What increasingly characterized commerce in the 1920s?

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A)  "Mom and pop" businesses drove the economy. 
B)  Chain-stores competed with independent businesses. 
C)  Workers and consumers established cooperative. 
D)  The number of women-owned businesses increased as women took more control over consumerism. 
E)  None of these choices 
A)  "Mom and pop" businesses drove the economy. 
B)  Chain-stores competed with independent businesses. 
C)  Workers and consumers established cooperative. 
D)  The number of women-owned businesses increased as women took more control over consumerism. 
E)  None of these choices

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ku Klux Klan, "100 Percent Americanism"

Accepted Answer

The Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated as t

Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Accepted Answer

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American nove

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb

Accepted Answer

Babe Ruth, born George Herman Ruth Jr.,

Question 16

How did Herbert Hoover's social and political thought differ from that of Harding and Coolidge?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover's social and political th

Question 17

In 1928 many Americans feared that if Al Smith were elected he would

Accepted Answer

A)  answer to the pope. 
B)  enforce prohibition. 
C)  too much away to the socialists. 
D)  have a "kitchen cabinet" made up of women advisers. 
E)  make Christianity America's official religion. 
A)  answer to the pope. 
B)  enforce prohibition. 
C)  too much away to the socialists. 
D)  have a "kitchen cabinet" made up of women advisers. 
E)  make Christianity America's official religion.

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Calvin Coolidge

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President o

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Nativism, Sacco-Vanzetti case

Accepted Answer

Nativism is the political policy of prom

Question 20

Who won the 1928 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

A)  Al Smith 
B)  Calvin Coolidge 
C)  Warren Harding 
D)  Herbert Hoover 
E)  Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
A)  Al Smith 
B)  Calvin Coolidge 
C)  Warren Harding 
D)  Herbert Hoover 
E)  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Exam 23: Coping With Change, 1920-1929

Who was the main subject in Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows ?

In 1920, Warren Harding campaigned using the slogan, "A Return to Normalcy". How successful was he in doing this? Explain using specific examples

In the 1920s, housework

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. National Broadcasting Company

Discuss how advertising and consumerism shaped life in the 1920s. Did advertising and consumerism deliver on the promises they made to Americans? How did women, blacks, and immigrants fit into the picture of American life painted by advertisers?

Henry Ford led the way in industry by

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Sheppard-Towner Act

What were the main issues surrounding the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the growth of fundamentalism, and the Sacco-Vanzetti case? What did the examples reveal about American society in the 1920s? Why?

Which of the following was not one of the ways that the automobile affected American life?

What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff demonstrate about U.S. trade policy from 1920 to 1930?

In the 1920s American business activities abroad

What increasingly characterized commerce in the 1920s?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Ku Klux Klan, "100 Percent Americanism"

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb

How did Herbert Hoover's social and political thought differ from that of Harding and Coolidge?

In 1928 many Americans feared that if Al Smith were elected he would

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Calvin Coolidge

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Nativism, Sacco-Vanzetti case

Who won the 1928 presidential election?

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America at War and Peace, 1801-1824

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