Question 1

Which three writers expressed hostility to the moralistic pieties of the old order and the business pieties of the new?

Accepted Answer

A)  Bruce Barton, Theodore Dreiser, and Ernest Hemingway 
B)  H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, and Horatio Alger 
C)  William Jennings Bryan, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis 
D)  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz 
E)  Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and H. L. Mencken

Question 2

The teaching of this subject in public schools was the key issue in the Scopes Trial.

Accepted Answer

A)  evolution. 
B)  sex education. 
C)  creationism. 
D)  racial equality. 
E)  biology.

Question 3

At the Washington Naval Arms Conference the major naval powers agreed that for ten years they would halt the construction of

Accepted Answer

A)  nuclear weapons. 
B)  submarines. 
C)  aircraft carriers. 
D)  destroyers. 
E)  battleships.

Question 4

What was the country's first radio network?

Accepted Answer

A)  ABC 
B)  CBS 
C)  NBC 
D)  PBS 
E)  FOX

Question 5

What increasingly characterized commerce in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

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 6

Henry Ford led the way in industry by

Accepted Answer

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

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.

Question 8

What happened in the 1920s Teapot Dome Scandal?

Accepted Answer

A)  President Herbert Hoover was caught having an affair with one of the secretaries in the White House. 
B)  Interior Secretary Albert Fall received bribes to lease naval oil reserves to two private companies. 
C)  Secretary of the Treasury William Clinton invested federal funds in the Whitewater land deal. 
D)  President Calvin Coolidge used federal funds to buy his wife a fancy tea serving set. 
E)  Vice President Davis was accused of lying under oath about his investments in Mexico.

Question 9

Which of the following writers is not correctly identified with one of his/her books?

Accepted Answer

A)  F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise 
B)  Sinclair Lewis, Main Street 
C)  Henry Mencken, The Sun Also Rises 
D)  Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 
E)  Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt.

Question 10

Which of the following was not one of the reasons that the union movement weakened in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Overall wage rates rose steadily in the 1920s. 
B)  The older craft-based pattern of union organization was ill suited to the new mass-production industries. 
C)  Management was hostile to labor organizing. 
D)  The "open shop" was dubbed the "American plan." 
E)  Inequities and regional variations in wages were eliminated through the Federal Fair Wages Act.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

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 12

Which sector of the economy did not prosper in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Manufacturing 
B)  Agriculture 
C)  The "service" sector 
D)  Financial services 
E)  New consumer goods

Question 13

Which of the following is not one of the reasons that Prohibition failed?

Accepted Answer

A)  Organized crime provided a ready supply of liquor. 
B)  It proved impossible to enforce rules of behavior with which a significant portion of the population disagreed. 
C)  The Volstead Act was underfunded. 
D)  New pharmaceutical discoveries cured the problem of alcohol abuse in a simpler way. 
E)  Prohibition laws were weakly enforced.

Question 14

Which of the following statements accurately describe the automobile in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was still just a plaything of the rich. 
B)  It lost much of its potential market as people turned to the new forms of mass transit available. 
C)  It was produced mostly for the overseas market since Americans could not afford the high-priced American models. 
D)  It became common in most American socioeconomic groups, as cheap Japanese models flooded the market. 
E)  It saw a big increase in popularity, with the number of vehicle registrations reaching 20 million in 1929.

Question 15

The term "welfare capitalism" refers to

Accepted Answer

A)  corporations providing employee benefits in the hope of preventing the establishment of unions. 
B)  the high rate of unemployment in the 1920s, when many people had to go on welfare. 
C)  the trade-union philosophy that the welfare of the workers should be the first concern of capitalism. 
D)  the federal government providing massive subsidies to select government contractors. 
E)  the creation of Social Security and Medicare in the 1930s.

Question 16

Which of the following statements concerning the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s is not true?

Accepted Answer

A)  It witnessed the flowering of black culture, particularly among writers. 
B)  It depended on white patronage. 
C)  It had little contact with the black masses. 
D)  It ended with the onset of the Great Depression, but stands as a monument to African-American cultural creativity. 
E)  It showcased the talents of Paul Robeson and Chuck Barry.

Question 17

Which statement best describes the post-World War I American attitude toward businessmen?

Accepted Answer

A)  Business values saturated American culture. 
B)  Americans considered corporate leaders to be "robber barons." 
C)  There was a growing hostility to the growth of the "military-industrial complex." 
D)  Postwar America held businessmen in contempt as war profiteers. 
E)  Most Americans blamed corporate America for the post-war depression.

Question 18

In the 1920s American business activities abroad

Accepted Answer

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 19

Which of the following examples reveals the nativism in the United States in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as much for their ethnic origins as their crimes. 
B)  President Harding issued an executive order limiting the number of non-British immigrants. 
C)  Congress passed a law in 1924 that strictly limited immigration. 
D)  White Citizen Councils increased in membership by stressing anti-black and anti-foreigner messages. 
E)  President Calvin Coolidge publicly supported the lynching of immigrants in certain circumstances.

Exam 23: Coping With Change, 1920-1929