Deck 21: Prosperity and Change in the Twenties

Question 1

Supermarkets replaced over-the-counter stores in the 1920s.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The Teapot Dome Scandal implicated government officials in the illegal smuggling of tea from England.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In the 1920s, the U.S. economy began to transition from being driven by large industries to being driven by consumer dollars.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In 1929, less than ten percent of privately owned cars in the world belonged to Americans.

Question 5

Henry Ford paid his workers more than three times the normal wage. This initiative:

A)led to the establishment of maximum wage caps in the automobile industry.
B)decreased his company's production, as the workers became lethargic.
C)led to the creation of a number of labor unions in his company.
D)made Ford's workers his customers.
E)led to an immediate increase in minimum wages across all industries.

Question 6

Which major change in American buying behavior in the 1920s benefitted car sellers in particular?

A)Less price sensitivity
B)Buying on credit
C)Shift from quantity to quality
D)Binge buying
E)Linking products to social status

Question 7

Bryan is the owner of a biscuit-manufacturing company. He has 2000 employees working for him. Bryan favors welfare capitalism and employs it in his business decisions. Which of the following actions would support his affinity toward welfare capitalism?

A)Implementing long working hours
B)Following a strict appraisal procedure
C)Improving working conditions
D)Discouraging the formation of worker unions
E)Decreasing the price of his products

Question 8

Clark was an influential union leader in a leading furniture-manufacturing company. However, he could not compel all the employees of the organization to join the union. Clark was most likely restrained by _____.

A)welfare capitalism
B)the Equal Rights Amendment
C)cultural pluralism
D)the open shop policy
E)social capitalism

Question 9

Which of the following is the primary reason why American goods became dominant products in Europe in the 1920s?

A)The World war had destroyed the industrial production of Europe.
B)In America, there was an increase in union membership.
C)Elite European customers could afford to buy imported American goods.
D)The industrialists in Europe found it cheaper to import products than to manufacture them.
E)America offered a considerable discount on bulk purchase to promote its goods.

Question 10

The Great Depression caused Democratic political landslides throughout the 1930s.

Question 11

Which of the following concepts supports the rationale that happy workers would be more productive than resentful ones?

A)Welfare capitalism
B)Cultural pluralism
C)Libertarian paternalism
D)State capitalism
E)Economic imperialism

Question 12

Bruce Barton's book, The Man Nobody Knows , depicted Jesus Christ as the world's most passionate leader.

Question 13

Which of the following statements is true of the American consumer market in the 1920s?

A)In the 1920s, car sales plunged as American consumers emphasized on thrift rather than indulgence.
B)During the 1920s, the economic boom boosted real estate as well as consumer products in most parts of America except in Florida.
C)During the 1920s, young people were not really into cars.
D)Throughout most of the 1920s, the number of investors in stocks fell steadily.
E)By the end of the 1920s, Americans relied on credit to purchase nearly 90 percent of their major durable goods.

Question 14

Jacob, a toy manufacturer, was a great admirer of American industrialist Henry Ford. He implemented the same methods of mass-production in his company that Henry Ford had implemented in manufacturing cars. This implies that Jacob used the _____ system in his company.

A)boutique manufacturing
B)computer-aided manufacturing
C)batch production
D)just-in-time
E)assembly line

Question 15

During the Harlem Renaissance, the younger generation of African Americans was not as militant as their parents and was more open to accepting segregation.

Question 16

President Calvin Coolidge was known for his ability to solve political problems with a minimum of words and minimal effort.

Question 17

The Jazz Singer was the first talking picture.

Question 18

The most destructive of all the race riots took place in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Question 19

During the early 1920s, the United States became the:

A)worst hit victim of the Great Depression.
B)first nation to develop a nuclear weapon.
C)largest producer of steel and iron.
D)wealthiest nation in the world.
E)only nation to provide citizenship to immigrants.

Question 20

_____ was the leader during the real estate boom that occurred in the 1920s.

A)Florida
B)New York
C)California
D)West Virginia
E)Pennsylvania

Question 21

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

A)pioneers of the assembly line system in manufacturing.
B)Italian immigrants living in Massachusetts.
C)union leaders who were responsible for numerous strikes.
D)Russian spies in America who reported back to Vladimir Lenin.
E)bankers who devised the mutual fund.

Question 22

The Nineteenth Amendment gave women the right to _____.

A)abortion
B)education
C)equal pay
D)drive
E)vote

Question 23

Mason studies American history and culture in New York. He researches the roots of a particular genre of music that was very popular in the 1920s among both African Americans and whites. Mason is studying _____ music.

A)rock
B)pop
C)jazz
D)classical
E)country

Question 24

Which of the following is a true statement about the Sacco and Vanzetti court case?

A)Under sentence of death, both Sacco and Vanzetti pleaded guilty to murder.
B)Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti became suspects in a shoplifting incident.
C)After fifty years, the governor of Massachusetts admitted that the trial was conducted unfairly.
D)Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were strong supporters of communism and promoted the Red Scare.
E)The death sentence meted out to them was recalled, and the two were acquitted of all charges.

Question 25

Pauline was a twenty-year-old who embraced the "new" woman concept in the 1920s. She enjoyed partying, smoking, and wearing short dresses. Which of the following terms would have been used to describe Pauline during that period?

A)Flapper
B)Punk
C)Bluenose
D)Dame
E)Fish

Question 26

The first president to make a radio broadcast was _____.

A)Theodore Roosevelt
B)Harry Truman
C)Franklin Roosevelt
D)Calvin Coolidge
E)Warren Harding

Question 27

The 1920s witnessed the rise of a dominant Republican Party that embraced a _____ philosophy.

A)"people-oriented"
B)"military-rule"
C)"business-first"
D)"no-immigrants"
E)"White-privilege"

Question 28

Which of these did NOT take place during the 1920s?

A)Babe Ruth became a star baseball player of the New York Yankees.
B)Crossword puzzles became a national craze.
C)Charles Lindbergh made the first trans-Atlantic flight.
D)Henry Ford introduced the five-dollar day.
E)Evangelical preachers spread the Gospel over the radio.

Question 29

The Red Scare was a fear that the United States:

A)would fall victim to a scarlet fever epidemic.
B)would be overpopulated with Irish immigrants.
C)was on the verge of an economic depression.
D)would suffer the loss of millions of people during World War I.
E)was vulnerable to a communist takeover.

Question 30

In the 1920s, Rafael and his friends were caught smuggling whiskey into the United States. They were fined heavily and also imprisoned for five years. Their punishment was enforced by the _____.

A)Embargo Act of 1919
B)Whiskey Act
C)Judiciary Act of 1891
D)Clayton Antitrust Act
E)Volstead Act

Question 31

Which of the following was an unexpected result of giving women the right to vote?

A)They did not follow politics and could not make an informed decision.
B)They generally voted the same as their fathers or husbands.
C)They did not take advantage of their right to vote.
D)They were more vulnerable to manipulation by politicians.
E)They voted only for Republican candidates, even if others were more deserving.

Question 32

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution:

A)made prohibition the law of the land.
B)gave women the right to vote.
C)set standards for presidential cabinet members.
D)put a check on the escalating number of political scandals.
E)limited immigration to America.

Question 33

The East St. Louis unrest marked the beginning of _____.

A)political unrest
B)race riots
C)class discrimination
D)anarchism
E)World War I

Question 34

Eugene V. Debs had written a biography of Jesus, whom he depicted as a(n)_____.

A)individualist anarchist
B)socialist carpenter
C)communist farmer
D)social reformer
E)visionary leader

Question 35

The Harlem Renaissance was an African American movement characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

A)a celebration of black literary forms.
B)a peaceful alliance with the whites.
C)embracing the "new Negro".
D)a "younger generation" of intellectuals and artists.
E)the flowering of jazz as a musical form.

Question 36

Charlie was a lawyer in New York during the economic boom of the late 1920s. He was interested in investing his money to earn more profits, and after consulting a banker, he bought shares in a collection of stocks managed by the banker. In which of the following avenues had Charlie invested?

A)Real estate
B)Mutual funds
C)Corporate bonds
D)Life insurance
E)Infrastructure

Question 37

_____ was the only large neighborhood in New York City where black people could live as a group.

A)Harlem
B)Bedford Park
C)Riverdale
D)Dudley Heights
E)Ridgewood

Question 38

_____ was the Socialist Party presidential candidate who had been jailed for denouncing U.S. participation in World War I as a capitalist endeavor.

A)Eugene V. Debs
B)Nicola Sacco
C)A. Mitchell Palmer
D)Bruce Barton
E)Harry Burt

Question 39

Which of the following statements is true of the Red Scare?

A)Vladimir Lenin was targeting the underdeveloped nations.
B)Vladimir Lenin wanted to promote the real estate business.
C)It took place in the late 1930s.
D)Vladimir Lenin declared the advent of world communism.
E)It did not affect American politics, or businesses.

Question 40

Which of the following inventions gave birth to the record industry?

A)The phonograph
B)Moving film
C)The incandescent light bulb
D)The mimeograph
E)The carbon microphone

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?

A)It saw itself as the embodiment of old southern and Protestant values.
B)The Klan was mainly anti-Catholic in northern and western states.
C)It was demonized in D.W. Griffith's film Birth of a Nation .
D)It was reborn in a ceremony on Georgia's Stone Mountain in 1915.
E)It believed the immigrants were responsible for the new urban culture of the 1920s.

Question 42

Describe Henry Ford's contribution to the booming American economy.

Question 43

A _________ was a clandestine bar serving alcohol during Prohibition.
a. gin mill
B. salad bowl
C. melting pot
D. speakeasy

Question 44

The Socialist Party's presidential candidate, _________, won almost one million votes in the election of 1920-from his prison cell.
a. Eugene V. Debs
B. Albert B. Fall
C. Mitchell Palmer
D. Marcus Garvey

Question 45

What incidents led to the Red Scare?

Question 46

What led to the decline of union membership?

Question 47

_____ insisted that the Bible should be understood as God's revealed word, absolutely true down to the last detail.

A)Liberalists
B)Functionalists
C)Idealists
D)Modernists
E)Fundamentalists

Question 48

Influential writers left America and went to Europe to form intellectual expatriate communities because:

A)they were inspired by European art and culture.
B)they were not valued in their own country.
C)they found commercial America vulgar.
D)they were persecuted by politicians for influencing citizens.
E)they intended to learn the style of European writers.

Question 49

_____ is the idea that each cultural group should retain its uniqueness and not be forced to change by a restrictive state or culture.

A)Cultural mosaic
B)Panethnicity
C)A salad bowl
D)A melting pot
E)Cultural pluralism

Question 50

The Scopes Monkey Trial was basically a conflict between the _____.

A)modernists and fundamentalists
B)African Americans and whites
C)Republicans and Democrats
D)realists and isolationists
E)communists and capitalists

Question 51

Elaborate on the rising trend of investing in stocks and shares during the 1920s.

Question 52

_________ in 1926 put an end to the booming real estate business in Florida.
a. War
B. The Great Depression
C. Hurricanes
D. Yellow fever

Question 53

The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a state law that prohibited the:

A)selling and consumption of alcohol in America.
B)immigration of Jews to America.
C)practice of Christianity in Tennessee.
D)teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
E)propaganda of progressive ideals.

Question 54

Eugenio, an Italian, moved to America with his family during the era of the "Roaring Twenties." He completely accepted the concept of Americanization and taught his children to adapt to it as well. This implies Eugenio and his family:

A)continued to uphold their Italian values and restricted themselves to immigrant settlements.
B)renounced their religion and became modernists.
C)blended into the Anglo-Saxon mainstream.
D)denounced American commercialism.
E)supported the Fundamentalist leaders in America.

Question 55

The phonograph was invented by _________.
a. Henry Bessemer
B. Thomas Edison
C. Robert Adler
D. Leonardo da Vinci

Question 56

Which incidents led to the East St. Louis riot?

Question 57

_________ was a satirical novel about Prohibition written by Sinclair Lewis.
a. It Can't Happen Here
B. Babbitt
C. Birth of a Nation
D. Arrowsmith

Question 58

Joseph's grandfather was an ardent modernist in the early 1900s. His beliefs and teachings were passed down in the family and are still upheld and practiced by Joseph. This implies that:

A)he does not believe in the theory of evolution.
B)his faith is based on scientific theories.
C)he believes God created man in his image and likeness.
D)he believes the earth is no more than 6000 years old.
E)he is a supporter of biblical inerrancy.

Question 59

The significance of "Black Tuesday" in history is that:

A)it denotes the day immigrants were restricted from entering America.
B)it was the day the infamous Sacco and Vanzetti trial took place.
C)it was the day the Great Migration of the African Americans began.
D)it marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
E)it was a day of great loss for all African Americans.

Question 60

The _____ restricted the number of immigrants permitted to enter the United States.

A)Eighteenth Amendment
B)Naturalization Act
C)National Origins Act
D)Equal Rights Amendment
E)Nineteenth Amendment

Question 61

Describe the Harlem Renaissance.

Question 62

What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?

Question 63

Who were some of the writers who became expatriates in Europe during the 1920s? What were their reasons for leaving, and how did their leaving affect American literature?

Question 64

Describe the role of music during the "Roaring Twenties."

Question 65

Discuss Marcus Garvey's role in uplifting African Americans.

Question 66

Differentiate between the views of the modernists and the fundamentalists.

Question 67

What changes did Warren G. Harding implement after he won the presidential election?

Question 68

Discuss the causes and results of immigrant restriction during the 1920s.

Question 69

Describe the atmosphere of unrest during Prohibition.

Question 70

Define the concepts of Americanization, the melting pot, and cultural pluralism.