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Ch 24 Study Guide
1. There were many dramatic increase in three of the following economic indicators during the
mid 1920s. Which is the exception?
A) output per worker
B) per capita income
C) rate if inflation
D) gross national product
2. America’s economic boom in the 1920s resulted from
A) the debilitation of Europe after World War I
B) the rapid pace of technological innovations
C) the expansion of the automobile industry
D) all of the above
3. Which of the following industries seemed least affected by the trend toward consolidation in
the 1920s?
A) steel
B) automobiles
C) cotton textiles
D) public utilities
4. The “welfare capitalism” of the 1920s did NOT provide American workers any:
A) tangible economic gains
B) real control over their own fates
C) psychological comfort
D) opportunities for organization
5. The essence of welfare capitalism was:
A) company-provided benefits for workers
B) company-provided bonuses for management
C) government-provided unemployment benefits for workers
D) government-provided financial aid for troubled industries
6. Which of the following did NOT contribute to the weakness of the organized labor movement
in America in the 1920s?
A) The radical leadership of the AFL
B) Hostility of the courts and the Justice Department to union activities
C) The propaganda promoted by corporate leaders that unionism was un-American
D) The large numbers of unskilled workers who found no place in the craft orientation of the
AFL
7. The “American Plan”:
A) was a effort to revive patriotism that had flagged after the war
B) was an effort to convince Americans not to buy products manufactured in other nations
C) was a crusade for the open shop in American corporations
D) was a plan to Americanize European immigrants
8. In the 1920s and after, the term “parity” was used to refer to:
A) a fair exchange price for farm crops
B) equal pay for union and non-union workers
C) equal pay for equal work for males and females
D) equal employment opportunities for blacks and whites
9. Which of the following industries was most closely associated with the rise of consumerism in
America in the 1920s
A) banking
B) insurance
C) advertising
D) fast-food chains
10. The automobile affected American lives in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A) It expanded the geographic horizons of millions of people
B) It contributed to the emergence of a distinct youth culture
C) It transformed the idea of vacations
D) It increased the population of the nation’s cities
11. Radio programming:
A) was not new in the 1920s
B) was not concerned about government regulations
C) was more centralized than the film industry
D) was more diverse and, at times, more subversive, than movies
12. Modernist religion:
A) placed more emphasis on a literal interpretation of the Bible
B) allowed religion to maintain its traditionally dominant role in American society
C) emphasized a fully developed personality rather than unexamined faith
D) ensured that Sunday would remain a national day of rest
13. The image of the “flapper” promoted each of the following EXCEPT:
A) physical and emotional fulfillment
B) liberated public behavior
C) greater freedom in women’s dress codes
D) economic independence for women
14. Margaret Sanger was significant to American social and cultural life in the 1920s as a
promoter of:
A) temperance
B) the “debunkers”
C) progressive education
D) the birth-control movement
15. Three of the following were manifestations of changing cultural values among Americans in
the 1920s. Which is the exception?
A) There was an increase in secularism
B) Many women enjoyed a less inhibited lifestyle
C) The national divorce rate climbed dramatically
D) Birth-control devices were legalized in all states, and abortion was legalized in some states
16. According to the text, which of the following had the greatest influence in producing the
sense of disillusionment characteristic of the Lost Generation?
A) The decline of organized religion
B) The moral relativism of pragmatism
C) The widespread acceptance of evolution
D) The traumatic experience of World War I
17. H.L. Mencken was significant to American social and cultural life in the 1920s as:
A) a leading advocate of temperance
B) a sarcastic debunker of traditional culture
C) an influential proponent of progressive education
D) a prominent opponent of the birth-control movement
18. A principal theme of Sinclair Lewis’ novels in the 1920s was:
A) utopian optimism for the future
B) romantic idealization of the past
C) contempt for modern American society
D) acceptance of modern American society as the best of all possible worlds
19. The Harlem Renaissance referred to:
A) a movement in black literature, art, and music
B) the spread of jazz to the cities of the North
C) a movement in New York to improve the conditions of recent immigrants to the United States
D) a back-to-Africa movement among black intellectuals who had repudiated American values
20. Three of the following statements accurately describe the “noble experiment” of prohibition.
Which is the exception?
A) Enforcement was ludicrously ineffective in some areas
B) It stimulated the growth of organized crime
C) The Great Depression hindered efforts to repeal prohibition
D) Begun as a middle-class progressive reform, prohibition was later supported largely by rural
Protestant Americans
21. Which of the following was NOT a provision of the immigration laws passed in 1921 and
1924?
A) The number of immigrants allowed into the country was reduced
B) Restrictions on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean immigration were eased
C) The number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States was expressed as quotas based
on a percentage of the number of each national group already in the country at a base year
D) The provisions favored immigration from northwestern Europe
22. Which of the following does not describe the new Ku Klux Klan (1915)?
A) Extended its membership outside the old Confederate states
B) Confined its activities to protests and symbolism rather than violence
C) Extended its attack to include immigrants, Catholics, and Jews
D) Assumed the role of self-appointed guardian of traditional values
23. A Christian fundamentalist is one who:
A) believes in the fundamental inerrancy of the New Testament
B) wishes to base morality on secular rather than religious fundamentals
C) accepts the basic or fundamental truths of all the world’s religions in the spirit of
ecumenicism
D) believes in the basic or fundamental general ideas of the Bible but not in the literal truth of
every statement
24. John T. Scopes was accused of the “crime” of teaching:
A) the advantages of labor union membership
B) that Christianity should dominate America
C) that communism had advantages in some societies
D) that Darwinism evolution best explains the origins of humans
25. The most important problem faced by the Democratic Party in the 1920s was:
A) a serious split between urban and rural wings of the party
B) the party was losing its traditional strength in the South
C) the fact that recent immigrants no longer tended to support the party
D) the restriction of immigration reduced the number of recruits to the party
26. Which of the following characterized the economy of the 1920s?
A) an emphasis on heavy industry, such as the production of locomotives
B) a drop in the real wages of workers
C) increasing wealth for the agricultural sector
D) an emphasis on cash rather than credit purchases
E) a shift to the production of consumer goods
27. Prohibition failed because?
A) organized crime controlled illegal liquor production
B) many Americans believed the law interfered with their personal freedom
C) rural America failed to support it
D) it adversely affected American productivity
E) the costs of enforcing it were too expensive
28. By the end of the 1920s, what had become the nation’s largest industry?
A) automobiles
B) steel
C) railroads
D) oil
E) chemicals
29. The conclusion of the Sacco and Vanzetti case suggested that?
A) the two men were clearly guilty
B) many Americans had an unreasonable fear of radicals and foreigners
C) African Americans could not get a fair trial in most southern states
D) The two men needed better legal representation
30. Which of the following best describes the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin
Coolidge?
A) The trusts must be broken
B) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
C) The business of government is business
D) The taste of empire is in the months of the people
E) The world must be made safe for democracy
31. The mood of “normalcy” invoked by President Warren G. Harding noted?
A) a return to the Jefferson ideal of an agrarian republic
B) strict government regulation of business
C) turning away from Europe and away from the programs of the Progressive Era
D) US assertiveness and leadership in world affairs
E) A progressive government that would care for the needs of the common man
32. The rapid growth of the automobile industry was made possible by?
A) the introduction by Henry Ford of an eight-hour work day and a minimum wage of $5 a day
in 1914
B) a ready market created by the rising standard of living and an increase of leisure time of the
average American
C) cooperation of labor and management in the trucking industry
D) failure of trolleys and railroads to maintain a high standard in their facilities and operation
33. One of the most popular books of the 1920s, The Man Nobody Knows, was an interpretive
biography of:
A) Warren G. Harding
B) Jesus Christ
C) V.I. Lenin
D) Booker T. Washington
E) Karen Swart
34. The first “talking” film of the 1920s was:
A) Birth Of A Nation
B) The Jazz Singer
C) Gone With The Wind
D) The Dictator
E) All Quiet On The Western Front
35. All of the following are accurate statements about middle class women in the 1920s except
they:
A) were the first generation of college educated women
B) sought the advice of experts on child rearing
C) utilized birth control devices
D) smoked, danced, and socialized openly
E) increasingly chose both a career and marriage
36. In the 1920s, many Americans feared that social changes would bring an end to familyoriented values. Which of the statements is one possible cause for this fear?
A) The automobile gave young people greater independence
B) Women in the workplace were closely monitored by their parents
C) Fewer women were pursuing higher education
D) Women leaving the workforce resulted in a loss of income for their families
37. A communication medium new to the 1920s was the?
A) telegraph
B) radio
C) telephone
D) computer
E) television
38. Advertising was a big business created after the war, one area was mass-circulation of
magazines in which populations were targeted for publication. The rural and small-town
families would have read which of the following publications?
A) Time
B) Newsweek
C) Reader’s Digest
D) The Saturday Evening Post
E) Mad Magazine
“Christians build their own colleges in which to teach Christianity; let atheists and agnostics
build their own schools in which to teach their doctrines.”
39. The above quote was in response to which event during the 1920s?
A) The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
B) The idea that the Ku Klux Klan should reject immigrants
C) The Scopes Trial
D) The response to the New Moral Codes of the 1920s
E) Prohibition
40. I remarked, The man who builds a factory builds a temple; the man who works there,
worships there?
A) Warren G. Harding
B) Robert La Follette
C) Henry ford
D) Andrew Carnegie
E) Calvin Coolidge
41. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the philosophy of Marcus
Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association?
A) blacks should demand integration in all areas of American society
B) blacks should separate themselves from corrupt white American society
C) blacks must elect their own candidates to state and national offices in order to become an
integral part of white society
D) blacks must prove their ability at manual jobs in order to achieve upward mobility
42. One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was?
A) overproduction
B) the inability to purchase modern farm equipment
C) passage of the McNary-Haugen Bill
D) the prosecution of cooperatives under anti-trust laws
43. One clear result of prohibition was
A) a rise in criminal organizations that supplied illegal liquor
B) an improvement in family relations and the general moral tone of society
C) a turn from alcohol to other forms of substance abuse
D) the rise of voluntary self-help organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous
44. The American city where gangsterism flourished most blatantly in the 1920s was
A) New York City
B) Harlem
C) Chicago
D) New Orleans
45. One of the primary social effects of the new automobile age was
A) a weakening of traditional family ties between parents and youth
B) a strengthening of intergenerational ties among parents, children, and grandchildren
C) a tightening of restrictions on women
D) a closing of the gap between the working class and the wealthy
46. The literacy figure who promoted many new writers of the 1920s in his magazine, The
American Mercury, was
A) H.L. Mencken
B) W.C. Handy
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Henry Adams
47. In the 1920, the Palmer Raids primarily targeted
A) alleged radicals
B) women’s rights advocates
C) settlement house residents
D) black nationalists
E) Chinese immigrants
48. Marcus Garvey is most closely associated with which of the following?
A) the Social Gospel
B) Black nationalism
C) Socialism
D) Social Darwinism
E) the America First Movement
49. An innovation of the 1920’s called “welfare capitalism,”
A) improved working conditions and benefits
B) gave workers control over their own fate
C) reduced union membership
D) survived into the Great Depression
E) provided government benefits for retired workers
50. In 1916, Congress and President Wilson supported the Keating-Owen Act, the first national
law to regulate
A) speed limits for automobiles
B) child labor
C) closed shops
D) pornography in films
E) the sale of alcoholic beverages
51. The central scandal of Teapot Dome involved members of Harding’s cabinet who
A) sold spoiled foodstuffs to the army and navy
B) took bribes for leasing federal oil lands
C) violated prohibition by tolerating gangster liquor deals
D) stuffed ballot boxes and played dirty tricks on campaign opponents
MATCHING PEOPLE, PLACES, and EVENTS
_____ A. Mitchell Palmer
_____ Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
_____ Al Capone
_____ John Dewey
_____ William Jennings Bryan
_____ Henry Ford
_____ Langston Hughes
_____ Charles A. Lindbergh
_____ Marcus Garvey
_____ Sigmund Freud
_____ H.L. Mencken
_____ Andrew Mellon
_____ Warren G. Harding
_____ Albert B. Falls
A. The “Poet laureate” of Harlem and author of The Weary
Blues
B. Italian-American anarchists whose trial and execution
aroused widespread protest
C. Mechanical genius and organizer of the mass-produced
automobile industry
D. U.S. attorney general who rounded up thousands of alleged
Bolsheviks in the red scare of 1919-1920
E. Baltimore writer who criticized the supposedly narrow and
hypocritical values of American society
F. Top gangster of the 1920s, eventually convicted of income
tax evasion
G. Harding’s interior secretary, convicted to taking bribes for
leases on federal oil reserves
H. Weak-willed president whose easygoing ways opened the
door to widespread corruption in his administration
I. Former presidential candidate who led the fight against
evolution at the 1925 Scopes trial
J. U.S. treasury secretary who attempted to promote business
investment by reducing taxes on the rich
K. Viennese psychologist whose writings were interpreted by
Americans as a call for sexual liberation and gratification
L. Leading American philosopher and proponent of
“progressive education”
M. Humble aviation pioneer who became a cultural hero of
the 1920s
N. Jamaican-born leader who enhanced African-American
pride despite his failed migration plans
IDENTIFICATION
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1. The movement of 1919-1920, spawned by fear of Bolshevik
revolution, that resulted in the arrest and deportation of many political
radicals.
2. Hooded defenders of Anglo-Saxon and “Protestant” values against
immigrants, Catholics, and Jews
3. New constitutional provisions, popular in the Midwest and South, that
encouraged lawbreaking and gangsterism in big city
4. Term for area of the South where traditional evangelical and
Fundamentalist religion remained strong
5. Legal battle over teaching evolution that pitted modern science
against Fundamentalist religion
6. Henry Ford’s cheap, mass-produced automobile
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7. Invented in 1903 and first used primarily for stunts and mail carrying
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8. Feminist Margaret Sanger’s cause that contributed to changing sexual
behaviors, especially for women
9. Marcus Garvey’s self-help organization that proposed leading blacks
to Africa
10. H.L. Mencken’s monthly magazine that led the literary attack on
traditional moral values, the middle class, and “Puritanism”
11. The New York institution in which continuously rising prices and
profits were fueled by speculation in the 1930s
12. Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major
Harding administration scandals
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