Deck 24: The 1920s

Question 1

In the 1920s,

A)all industrial workers enjoyed high wages and benefits.
B)a tight labor market for industrial workers increased their bargaining power.
C)industrial workers did not see the results of gains in productivity in increased wages.
D)decreases in industrial production lowered workers' wages.
E)most workers joined unions.

Answer 1

industrial workers did not see the results of gains in productivity in increased wages.

Question 2

All of the following factors contributed to the postwar depression in U.S.agriculture except

A)recovery of European farms after the war ended.
B)falling prices of farm products.
C)a significant rise in the use of tractors.
D)a decline in European demand for U.S.products.
E)substantial increase in acreage in production.

Answer 2

substantial increase in acreage in production.

Question 3

All of the following could be said of Warren G.Harding's tenure as president except

A)he continued the worst repression of the post-WWI Red Scare by jailing leftists.
B)he staffed his cabinet with some highly capable men.
C)his administration suffered from scandals.
D)he was influenced easily by his friends.
E)the Republican Party was returned to power.

Answer 3

he continued the worst repression of the post-WWI Red Scare by jailing leftists.

Question 4

All of the following statements reflect the African-American experience in the North during the Harlem Renaissance except

A)African-American artists drew from their own cultural heritage.
B)The Harlem Renaissance attracted attention from whites.
C)African Americans developed increasing political power.
D)Many African Americans still depended on white patrons for support.
E)African-American writers and artists expressed racial pride.

Question 5

The purpose of welfare capitalism was to

A)give workers more control over their working conditions.
B)encourage workers to join unions.
C)encourage worker loyalty to capitalism.
D)fund unemployment rolls.
E)subsidize business enterprises.

Question 6

During the 1920s,

A)rural Americans were isolated from the consumerism of cities.
B)rural Americans fully embraced "modernism."
C)rural Americans showed distrust for urban ways.
D)advertisers ignored the rural market.
E)a larger percentage of Americans were living in rural areas.

Question 7

While commerce secretary,Herbert Hoover accomplished all of the following except

A)convincing steel executives to reject the twelve-hour day.
B)persuading farmers to join marketing cooperatives.
C)encouraging workers to join unions.
D)focusing on standardizing industrial products.
E)persuading some bankers in the South to organize regional associations.

Question 8

In the 1920s,the Ku Klux Klan did all of the following except

A)continue to thrive only in the South.
B)attract a significant female membership.
C)achieve some degree of political power in some states.
D)focus their bigotry on Catholics and Jews.
E)emphasize traditional morality.

Question 9

Calvin Coolidge

A)raised taxes and increased government regulation of business.
B)lowered taxes and decreased government regulation of business.
C)lowered taxes but increased government regulation of business.
D)raised taxes but decreased government regulation of business.
E)raised taxes on the rich but reduced them for the working class.

Question 10

Ethnic communities responded to Americanization campaigns by

A)eagerly embracing the notion that they could assimilate.
B)strengthening their customs and traditions.
C)sheltering themselves completely from American culture.
D)leaving the United States and returning to their homelands.
E)moving out of the cities into rural areas.

Question 11

The Dawes Plan

A)called on the U.S.government to lend money to Germany.
B)ended the steel strike in 1924.
C)resulted in the reduction of Germany's war debt.
D)was heavily criticized by U.S.bankers.
E)was opposed by the Republican Party.

Question 12

Which of the following was not a part of the postwar period in the United States?

A)increased middle-class wealth and buying power
B)a significant growth in advertising
C)a new use of leisure time
D)a decline in the number of Americans who owned stocks
E)an increase in installment buying

Question 13

Liberal Protestants

A)supported the fundamentalist rejection of modernism.
B)by far outnumbered fundamentalists.
C)opposed evolution.
D)supported William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes trial.
E)believed in rational inquiry and social activism.

Question 14

All of the following are true of African Americans and the employment prospects in the 1920s except

A)African Americans increasingly moved north for greater job opportunities.
B)African Americans were not able to work in the growing automotive industry.
C)some groups tried to organize unions.
D)African American workers found few allies among white workers.
E)African Americans were finding more job opportunities in urban centers.

Question 15

The rise of fundamentalism was

A)fueled by renewed popularity of broad interpretations of the Bible.
B)a reaction to the growth of liberal Protestantism.
C)most pronounced in large cities.
D)short-lived.
E)supportive of scientific theories.

Question 16

Which of the following is not true of the Scopes trial?

A)It was a test of the First Amendment.
B)It contributed to the removal of references to Charles Darwin in texts.
C)It featured two key public figures as opposing attorneys.
D)It indicated that support for fundamentalism was waning.
E)It was set up by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Question 17

The Immigrant Restriction Acts

A)widened the number of countries from which immigrants could come.
B)were passed with relatively little protest.
C)increased the number of immigrants from eastern Europe.
D)resulted in a labor shortage.
E)admitted more Africans to the U.S.

Question 18

The term "flapper" referred to

A)women who joined the air force during the war.
B)modern,single,women who smoked and wore short dresses.
C)women who supported Prohibition by attacking saloons and saloonkeepers.
D)feminists who organized political and action groups.
E)women who publicly debated the merits of the League of Nations.

Question 19

During his tenure as secretary of commerce,Herbert Hoover

A)promoted a return to simpler times.
B)promoted a cooperative approach toward business.
C)sought direction from Calvin Coolidge.
D)was implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal.
E)successfully addressed the problems in the farm economy.

Question 20

Which of the following statements could not be said of the labor movement in the 1920s?

A)Union membership continued to grow.
B)Unions lost ground in most industries.
C)Unions remained suspect in the eyes of the middle class.
D)It was slow to include all workers in the ranks of organized labor.
E)Supreme Court decisions hurt labor organizing efforts.

Question 21

Which writer focused most on the desire to be accepted in a world of wealth?

A)John Dos Passos
B)Ernest Hemingway
C)F.Scott Fitzgerald
D)Theodore Dreiser
E)Eugene O'Neill

Question 22

As a result of the Scopes trial,

A)Tennessee repealed its anti-evolution law.
B)Scopes was found innocent and given a promotion.
C)publishers eliminated references to Darwin's theories from science textbooks.
D)the American Civil Liberties Union was destroyed.
E)Clarence Darrow died.

Question 23

In the Kellogg-Briand Pact,

A)the U.S.finally agreed to join the League of Nations.
B)signatories agreed to unite against German aggression in Europe.
C)the United States agreed to remove its troops from Haiti.
D)American bankers canceled the German war debt.
E)fifteen nations outlawed war and vowed to settle disputes peacefully.

Question 24

The presidents elected in the 1920s were all

A)Republicans.
B)Democrats.
C)crusading reformers and ex-Progressives.
D)veterans of World War I.
E)born in large cities.

Question 25

Economically,the 1920s was a period of

A)high unemployment and recession.
B)declining standards of living.
C)growth,prosperity,and unprecedented productivity.
D)economic stagnation.
E)return of farm prosperity.

Question 26

Union membership declined in the 1920s because of all of the following except

A)business,government,and middle-class hostility.
B)the success of welfare capitalism.
C)the unions' failure to actively recruit unskilled and semiskilled workers.
D)adverse rulings from the Supreme Court.
E)extremely high union membership dues.

Question 27

All of the following was part of the new consumer lifestyle of the 1920s except

A)new appliances eased the burden of housework.
B)the automobile made vacations and camping trips popular.
C)poverty was eliminated from American society.
D)high quality,fashionable clothes were available to most Americans.
E)advertising increased consumer demand.

Question 28

In 1924,the Johnson-Reed Act

A)enlarged the total number of immigrants annually admitted to the United States.
B)virtually eliminated immigration of eastern Europeans and Asians.
C)restricted immigration from Western Hemisphere nations for the first time in history.
D)favored immigrants who would speak English.
E)opened immigration to Asians.

Question 29

It cannot be said of the 1920s that

A)the Democratic Party enjoyed a late resurgence.
B)it was a period of tremendous consumer growth.
C)it fostered bigotry.
D)it generated a lot of criticism among intellectuals and artists.
E)working-class and rural Americans benefited little from the prosperity.

Question 30

Sexual mores of the 1920s

A)were basically the same as before World War I.
B)were not influenced by the automobile.
C)encouraged husbands and wives to enjoy recreational activities and physical intimacy together.
D)eliminated confusion and hostility between the sexes.
E)became more conservative.

Question 31

All of the following statements regarding American workers in the 1920s are false except

A)farmers made more money than industrial workers.
B)skilled workers received high wages,paid vacations,sick leave,and other benefits.
C)forty percent of industrial workers lived below the poverty level.
D)wages were equalized for men and women.
E)most belonged to unions.

Question 32

Rural Americans saw cities as

A)centers of modernity and progress.
B)the creators of a new,prosperous,and exciting American culture.
C)dangerous,frightening breeding grounds of sin and subversion.
D)the spiritual and intellectual heart of the nation.
E)engines of industrial progress.

Question 33

The "lost generation" referred to

A)American soldiers who died during World War I.
B)disenchanted American intellectuals who fled to Europe.
C)American artists in the South.
D)children born to Mexican immigrants in California.
E)Native Americans who left the reservations.

Question 34

Mexican Americans in the 1920s

A)were mostly low-paid farm and construction workers.
B)quickly achieved citizenship and organized politically.
C)abandoned their cultural and religious traditions in order to "fit in" with U.S.society.
D)were the largest ethnic group working in the auto industry in Chicago and Detroit.
E)were employed primarily on the railroads.

Question 35

Calvin Coolidge

A)was a cheerful alcoholic who liked to "carouse" with his friends.
B)believed that the federal government must regulate the economy and control big business.
C)was president when the Great Depression started.
D)was a somber,honest politician who did not socialize with "the boys."
E)significantly raised income and estate taxes.

Question 36

In the Teapot Dome scandal,

A)Harding's secretary of the interior took bribes and awarded fraudulent leases to oil companies.
B)Harding's head of the Veterans' Bureau saved the government millions of dollars.
C)Harding's cabinet members enforced the Prohibition laws.
D)Harding's surgeon general misdiagnosed a heart attack and caused the death of the president.
E)the President engaged in an affair with a young office worker.

Question 37

Modern advertising techniques

A)exploited insecurities and secret desires of consumers.
B)were not effective due to poor-quality graphics.
C)were so vulgar that newspapers banned the ads.
D)demeaned and ridiculed working-class Americans.
E)were not essential to the growth of the consumer economy.

Question 38

Warren G.Harding was

A)a serious,quiet,formal Yankee whose policies were later admired by Ronald Reagan.
B)elected because he was the winning general in World War I.
C)an intellectual who had difficulty dealing with Congress.
D)president when the stock market crash occurred and the Great Depression started.
E)a handsome,genial political hack whose administration was riddled with corruption.

Question 39

Which of the following was associated with jazz music?

A)Langston Hughes
B)Zora Neal Hurston
C)Duke Ellington
D)Claude McKay
E)Jean Toomer

Question 40

Approximately how many people from Mexico migrated to the U.S.in the 1920s?

A)5,000
B)10,000
C)50,000
D)100,000
E)500,000

Question 41

In the 1920s,economic growth was due mainly to the production of capital goods.

Question 42

In 1920 the National American Woman Suffrage Association was transformed into the

A)National Women's Party.
B)National Organization of Women.
C)League of Women Voters.
D)Women's International Peace and Freedom League.
E)Ladies' Sewing Circle.

Question 43

Charles A.Lindbergh became a celebrity in the 1920s when he

A)completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
B)made the first blockbuster movie.
C)challenged the failure of the two-party political system to represent the interests of ordinary people.
D)organized a strike in the steel industry.
E)ran for President.

Question 44

Mexican farm laborers that worked in Texas faced all of the following conditions except

A)Houses with no indoor plumbing.
B)Increased debt to employers.
C)Decent schools.
D)Feared deportation since they lacked visas.
E)Frequent travel to new areas.

Question 45

The 1920 census revealed that more Americans lived in rural,rather than urban,areas.

Question 46

The sports figure who achieved the greatest celebrity fame in the 1920s was

A)baseball star Babe Ruth.
B)racing star Rudolph Valentino.
C)boxer Jack Dempsey.
D)writer Bruce Barton.
E)football star Jack Johnson

Question 47

The results of the Lynds' survey indicated that even working-class families were enjoying many luxuries.

Question 48

Only a very small number of Americans responded to the nativist arguments of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 49

Ethnic associations,affiliations,and celebrations declined during the 1920s.

Question 50

Which of the following resulted in the highest number of deaths for African Americans in New York City in 1925?

A)Homicide
B)Pneumonia
C)Suicide
D)Stillbirths
E)Pulmonary tuberculosis

Question 51

Women with ambition generally sought work as all of the following except

A)social workers.
B)teachers.
C)librarians.
D)nurses.
E)department store clerks.

Question 52

Mexican immigrants in California and African Americans in Harlem shared similar experiences.

Question 53

Southern and Eastern European immigrants enjoyed movies,amusement parks,baseball games and boxing matches.

Question 54

Workers in which of the following industries fared the worst during the 1920s?

A)steel and textiles
B)automobiles and textiles
C)railroads and textiles
D)coal and textiles
E)garments and textiles

Question 55

The "people's capitalism" referred to

A)communism in the 1920s.
B)the communist party slogan in 1928.
C)the idea by capitalists that now everyone could participate in the economy.
D)the small group of businessmen who tried to eliminate unions altogether.
E)none of these choices

Question 56

During the 1920s,African Americans continued to migrate from the South to industrial cities where they enjoyed increasing success in finding high-paying jobs.

Question 57

Immigration Restriction Act sponsors believed which group was racially superior to others?

A)British,Germans,and Scandinavians
B)African Americans
C)Mexicans
D)Filipinos
E)Asians

Question 58

All of the following were appointed by Warren G.Harding to federal positions except

A)Harry M.Daugherty.
B)Albert Fall.
C)Edward L.Doheny.
D)Charles R.Forbes.
E)Andrew Mellon.

Question 59

Skilled industrial workers enjoyed higher wages and benefits in the production boom of the 1920s.

Question 60

Calvin Coolidge significantly reduced the amount of control that government had over the economy.

Question 61

Prohibition increased the power and wealth of organized crime.

Question 62

The United States did nothing in response to France's occupation of the Ruhr in 1923.

Question 63

The concept of introducing new automobile model styles each year was started by Ford Motor Company.

Question 64

H.L.Mencken was a popular novelist who idealized the virtues and values of small-town America.

Question 65

Albert Fall was the only member of Warren Harding's "Ohio gang" to serve time in prison.

Question 66

Herbert Hoover believed that government should control industry.

Question 67

Female workers had the same benefits as male workers.

Question 68

In 1920,a majority of Americans still lived in small rural communities.

Question 69

The number of female college students increased by 50 percent during the 1920s.

Question 70

The Republican Party selected Warren G.Harding as its presidential candidate in 1920 because he was a tough,hard-nosed,competent leader.

Question 71

By 1924,as many as 4 million Americans are thought to have belonged to the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 72

By 1929,as many as 7 million Americans,most of them people of ordinary,middle-class means,owned stock.

Question 73

The 1920s seemed geared toward personal gratification.

Question 74

For Fundamentalists,God is a deity who intervenes directly in the lives of individuals and communities.

Question 75

The 1920s were hard for farmers.

Question 76

Most celebrities were political leaders.

Question 77

Unions had virtually no presence in white-collar places of employment.

Question 78

Welfare capitalism was meant to be humane to workers,it had nothing to do with trying to discourage unionization.

Question 79

The Kellogg-Briand Pact contained strict enforcement mechanisms.

Question 80

Warren Harding and Woodrow Wilson had much in common.