Exam 22: The “New Era”

The Scopes trial of 1925 resulted in a guilty verdict,but it also put fundamentalists on the defensive.

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

F.Scott Fitzgerald attacked the American obsession with material success in his 1925 novel,________.

In the 1920s,Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon succeeded in

Why did the Democrats fall apart and concede control to a series of Republican presidents in the 1920s?

In the workplace,the "open shop" meant

President Coolidge vetoed the ________ Bill,which was designed to achieve parity for the American farmer.

During the 1920s,the trend toward industrial consolidation

Thomas Morgan's experiments with ________ revealed how genes were arranged along the chromosome and could be transmitted together.

The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion,politics,the arts,and even democracy itself,was

Feminists such as Alice Paul championed the Sheppard-Towner Act because it provided federal funds for child health-care.

A business in which no worker would be required to join a union was referred to as a(n)________.

As secretary of commerce,Herbert Hoover considered himself

To Herbert Hoover,"associationalism" meant

Both Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge failed to serve out their presidential terms.

All the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT that he

Nativist sentiment had not been sufficient in the first years of the century to win passage of curbs on immigration,but after World War I it increased substantially.

During the 1920s,the National Woman's Party campaigned primarily for the

Enrollment in colleges and universities increased threefold between 1900 and 1930,with much of that increase occurring after

Contemporaries referred to the 1920s as the "New ________."