Deck 22: A Clash of Cultures, 1920-1929

Question 1

The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Although Warren G.Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

What helped drive the mass production of the 1920s?

A)An economic downturn
B)A new system of values celebrating hard work
C)Effective marketing tactics
D)The need for the production of weapons during wartime
E)The shrinking middle class

Answer 3

Effective marketing tactics

Question 4

With the Republicans in control of the federal government, progressivism disappeared in the 1920s.

Question 5

In the twentieth century, __________ replaced the nineteenth century's ____________-based economy.

A)trains; car
B)consumer goods; agriculture
C)farming; industrial
D)wartime manufacturing; industrial
E)money management; advertising

Question 6

Many people of all ages and ethnicities enjoyed jazz music.

Question 7

As president, Warren G.Harding was actually more progressive than Woodrow Wilson in his attitudes and policies toward African Americans.

Question 8

Construction companies greatly benefited from an economic boom in the 1920s.

Question 9

A reactionary movement characterized by anti-immigrant sentiment is known as Nativism.

Question 10

The concept of mass culture denotes Americans seeing, hearing, reading, and watching the same advertisements, magazines, radio programs, and movies.

Question 11

The culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created, not copied.

Question 12

Herbert Hoover was celebrated for his ability to increase industrial efficiency.

Question 13

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

Question 14

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.

Question 15

Many modernists considered being completely misunderstood by their audience to be an honor.

Question 16

Spectator sports contributed to the rise of mass culture in the 1920s.

Question 17

The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.

Question 18

Which of the following statements about the American aviation industry in the late 1920s is accurate?

A)The aviation industry grew far less prominent because combat planes were no longer needed.
B)The United States did not yet have its own aviation industry and still relied on European planes.
C)The federal government subsidized the aviation industry to help promote it as a new form of transportation.
D)The Lindbergh flights made the American public far more disapproving of the aviation industry.
E)Amelia Earhart built and flew the world's first airplane, which immediately launched the aviation industry.

Question 19

The Harlem Renaissance was partially a result of the Great Migration.

Question 20

During the 1920s, the ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.

Question 21

In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled against Oklahoma's efforts to deny African Americans voting rights.Which court case was this?

A)Dred Scott v.Sanford
B)Guinn v.United States
C)Baker v.Carr
D)Smith v.Allwright
E)Gore v.Vidal

Question 22

Which of the following statements about women in the 1920s is accurate.

A)Most women were flappers and became actively involved in the women's movement.
B)The number of college-educated women who pursued careers outside the home greatly increased.
C)The majority of women who worked outside the home moved into salaried professional roles rather than those with hourly wages.
D)Many remained full-time wives or mothers, in part due to the conservative political mood of the time.
E)The consumer culture of the time resulted in a decrease in new, related jobs for women.

Question 23

Why was the Armory Show of 1913 significant?

A)It was a sensation that caused modern art to become one of the U.S.'s favorite subjects of debate.
B)It exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal that overshadowed Harding's presidency to the public.
C)It revealed that there was only an audience for modernist art in Europe, practically ending the movement in the United States.
D)It was an effective demonstration of black nationalism and racial solidarity that went against Garveyism.
E)It for the first time presented the idea of an accessible "real" world that could be explained by science and easily observed.

Question 24

Intellectuals and artists who believed that the twentieth century was the turning point in human development were known as

A)flappers.
B)beatniks.
C)jazzers.
D)modernists.
E)humanists.

Question 25

The infamous ___________ case occurred amid terror attacks by anarchists, was overseen by a very biased judge, and resulted in the conviction and execution of two working-class immigrants.

A)Bryan and Tilton
B)Wilson and Roosevelt
C)Sacco and Vanzetti
D)Scopes and Darrow
E)Buchanan and Warley

Question 26

One of the areas most prone to experiencing a revolution in manners and morals in the 1920s was

A)tenements.
B)government housing.
C)agrarian societies.
D)college campuses.
E)small towns.

Question 27

Women in the 1920s who rebelled against conventional dress, hairstyles, and what was considered to be "ladylike" were commonly called

A)hussies.
B)birds.
C)broads.
D)flappers.
E)zeldas.

Question 28

The United States' first self-conscious African American literary and artistic movement is known as the

A)Roaring Twenties.
B)Harlem Renaissance.
C)Jazz Age.
D)Impressionist Period.
E)Manhattan Movement.

Question 29

Who was the founder of psychoanalysis and wrote books resulting in increasingly bold discussions about sex?

A)Sigmund Freud
B)Ernest Hemingway
C)Augusta Savage
D)F.Scott Fitzgerald
E)Gertrude Stein

Question 30

Ford's Highland Park plant revolutionized the industrial process by

A)increasing car prices.
B)creating a moving assembly line method.
C)making workers' tasks highly engaging.
D)making cars highly customizable, including by color.
E)decreasing the need for road construction.

Question 31

Einstein's theories in the early twentieth century revolutionized science by

A)revealing that all things are static and unchanging.
B)showing that there are no absolute standards in the world.
C)illustrating that space, time, matter, and energy are distinct and independent.
D)discovering the concept of gravity.
E)arguing that the theory of relativity was incompatible with modernism.

Question 32

In addition to the nickname "the Roaring Twenties," the 1920s have also been labeled the

A)Great Depression.
B)Greatest Generation.
C)Jazz Age.
D)Anything Goes Age.
E)Age of Welfare Capitalism.

Question 33

According to your textbook, what was the most significant economic and social development of the early twentieth century?

A)The airplane
B)The radio
C)The movie theater
D)The automobile
E)The suburbs

Question 34

Thanks to the ____________, African Americans saw greater acceptance and political rights during the 1920s in the North.

A)Thirteenth Amendment
B)Prohibition
C)Immigration Act of 1924
D)Great Migration
E)Sacco and Vanzetti case

Question 35

A person who opposed immigration in the 1920s because it would dilute what it "meant to be an American" would be subscribing to what type of viewpoint?

A)Nativism
B)Modernism
C)Fundamentalism
D)Socialism
E)Communism

Question 36

Those who came of age during the 1920s are known as

A)the Generation X.
B)the Baby Boom Generation.
C)the Lost Generation.
D)War Childs.
E)the New Generation.

Question 37

Why was the Red Scare significant?

A)It convinced Congress to increase the number of immigrants from Europe.
B)It caused the downturn of nativism during the postwar period.
C)It created anti-immigrant hysteria in the wake of the end of the Great War.
D)It led to a decrease in the Hispanic Catholic population in the later 1920s.
E)It resulted in the great growth in union memberships over the 1920s.

Question 38

Which of the following lowered the number of allowed immigrants from European nations to 2 percent of the number who lived in the United States as reported in the 1890 census?

A)Immigration Act of 1924
B)Fourteenth Amendment
C)Non-Immigration Act
D)the Mellon Plan
E)Open Shop Act

Question 39

Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who W.E.B.Du Bois called the "most dangerous enemy of the Negro race"?

A)Marcus Garvey
B)Booker T.Washington
C)James Weldon Johnson
D)Alfred E.Smith
E)Warren Harding

Question 40

The popular type of art that appeared in the early 1920s was known as

A)Impressionistic.
B)Baroque.
C)Watercolor.
D)Modernism.
E)Abstract.

Question 41

As president, Calvin Coolidge pursued

A)increased government spending.
B)reparations with Germany.
C)the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
D)a determined path not to be an activist president.
E)stricter regulation of big business.

Question 42

Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to "normalcy," which meant

A)continuing the Progressive Era reforms.
B)emphasizing internationalism.
C)passing stricter anti-trust laws.
D)promoting conservative cultural values.
E)increasing the scope of the federal government.

Question 43

Which of the following ethnic groups was forbidden from immigrating to the United States by the immigration laws passed in the 1920s?

A)Serbian
B)German
C)Japanese
D)French
E)Spanish

Question 44

Discuss America's turn toward nativism in the early 1920s.What motivated this ideology, and what groups supported it?

Question 45

What was an unintended consequence of the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States?

A)The Hispanic Catholic population substantially increased.
B)The number of immigrants who entered the country each year increased overall.
C)The number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe dramatically increased.
D)The number of communicable diseases in the country rose drastically.
E)The number of Chinese immigrants dramatically increased.

Question 46

When President Harding died, he was replaced by

A)Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
B)Calvin Coolidge.
C)Herbert Hoover.
D)Woodrow Wilson.
E)James Cox.

Question 47

The _______ Trial is a classic example of modernism versus fundamentalism.

A)Sacco Vanzetti
B)Plessy Ferguson
C)Scopes
D)Dred Scott
E)White Primary

Question 48

Trace the rise of fundamentalism in the 1920s.Explain how this issue led to the Scopes Trial and how that case was decided.

Question 49

Which of the following statements about the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s is accurate?

A)It abandoned the violent intimidation tactics of the Klan from the post-Civil War years.
B)Its membership was largely limited to the rural South.
C)It targeted groups such as Catholics and Jews as well as African Americans.
D)It underwent a surge in growth after 1930 after the conviction of David C.Stephenson.
E)It promoted the sale of bootleg liquor and condemned the idea of strict personal morality.

Question 50

Why was Warren G.Harding selected to represent the Republican party in the 1920 election?

A)He had a lot of valuable political experience.
B)He strongly supported Wilsonian progressivism.
C)He disagreed with the idea of "America first," emphasizing all countries' needs.
D)The Republican Party could not agree on anyone else.
E)He sought to place strict regulations on corporations.

Question 51

What was the purpose of the Mellon Plan?

A)Economic growth through low taxes, spending, and high tariffs
B)Decreased immigration from Eastern Europe
C)Sweeping tax increases meant to increase the federal budget
D)Alliances with other powerful countries in anticipation of an arms race
E)Improved labor regulations for women and children

Question 52

France and England tried to repay their World War I debts to the United States by collecting reparations from

A)Italy.
B)Russia.
C)Germany.
D)Bulgaria.
E)Turkey.

Question 53

Which of the following is one of the reasons that Prohibition failed?

A)Organized crime provided a steady supply of liquor.
B)Prohibition was no longer relevant after the war because most people didn't drink alcohol.
C)The Volstead Act targeted rich whites.
D)Al Capone violently enforced Prohibition laws.
E)Congress devoted too much funding to enforcing Prohibition laws.

Question 54

After World War I came to an end, the United States actively practiced ______________ in its relations with the rest of the world.

A)globalization
B)capitalism
C)isolationism
D)socialism
E)neo-conservatism

Question 55

When Coolidge chose not to run for a second term of his own, the Republicans nominated

A)Franklin Roosevelt.
B)James Cox.
C)Warren Harding.
D)Herbert Hoover.
E)Albert Smith.

Question 56

To protect their companies from becoming union shops, owners often employed the _________ contract.

A)blacklist
B)yellow-dog
C)iron clad
D)bulletproof
E)inviable

Question 57

What best explains U.S.citizens' overwhelming support for Coolidge in 1924?

A)The economy was going great, so citizens felt it would make sense to keep him on as president.
B)The economy was collapsing, so citizens felt that they needed a change.
C)He was a moderate Democrat and had helped strengthen the Democratic party as president.
D)He supported aggressive controls on the economy.
E)He supported war with Germany if they did not pay their reparations.

Question 58

Describe America's turn to Prohibition in the 1920s.What were the results of the Eighteenth Amendment?

Question 59

To lower the risk of war, the United States was party to the ________ in 1921, which limited the size of naval warships for those who signed the document.

A)Kellog-Briand Pact
B)Five-Power Treaty
C)Treaty of Versailles
D)Open Door Act
E)Mellon Plan

Question 60

During the 1920s, the greatest sustained support for the Eighteenth Amendment came from

A)civil rights activists.
B)rural Protestants.
C)poor whites in the South.
D)immigrants.
E)African Americans.

Question 61

Describe the 1928 election: the candidates, issues, results, and factors that helped make it unique.

Question 62

Describe the changes that took place in African American culture and the role they played in early-twentieth-century America.

Question 63

Discuss American foreign policy in the 1920s and its somewhat contradictory stance of isolationism and foreign involvement.

Question 64

Write an essay describing the "consumer culture" that developed in the 1920s.

Question 65

Describe and explain how the end of World War I ushered in the beginning of modernism in the arts and literature?

Question 66

What did Warren G.Harding mean by "normalcy"? Is that a good term to describe the 1920s?

Question 67

Discuss how corruption during the Harding administration became so widespread.Survey the various scandals, and discuss the effects they had on the administration.