AP U.S. History
Chapter 26 Reading Guide – The 1920s
1. Why did the country vote for a return to “normalcy” in 1920 rather than continued
“Progressivism?” What was the impact of this decision?
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
Warren G.Harding
James Cox
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charles Evans Hughes
Herbert Hoover
Andrew Mellon
Henry Wallace
“Ohio Gang”
Fordney-McCumber
Tariff of 1922”
2. Why is Teapot Dome such an apt symbol for Harding’s presidency?
Albert B. Fall
Edward L. Doheny
Harry Sinclair
3. How did “keep[ing] cool with Coolidge” promote a feeding frenzy of conspicuous
consumption in the United States?
John W. Davis
Robert M. La Follette
“The Great Train Robbery”
“Birth of a Nation”
“The Jazz Singer”
Al Jolson
KDKA
WEAF
Federal Communications
Commission
Kelly Act (1925)
Air Commerce Act (1926)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Henry Ford
“good roads movement”
“Taylorization”
4. What philosophical statement was made by the attitudes and actions of men such as
Herbert Hoover toward American business in the twenties?
cooperative individualism
associationalism
stabalization
“rule of reason”
5. How did attitudes toward farming evolve in the twenties? In what way(s) did
these attitudes reflect the same philosophy as #4 above?
Farmers’ Union
American Farm Bureau
Federal Land Banks
McNary-Haugenism
6. Why did unionism and organized labor generally suffer serious setbacks during
the twenties?
Red Scare
American Plan
open shop
“yellow-dog” contracts
industrial democracy
welfare capitalism
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
secondary boycott
William Green
Railway Labor Act (1926)
7.
Evaluate the accuracy of the commonly held view of Herbert Hoover, the self-made
millionaire, as the champion of “rugged individualism.”
orderly liberty
Wickersham Commission
Committee on Recent
Social Trends
Committee on Recent
Economic Chancge
Committee on Child
Health and Protection
Oscar DePriest
Agricultural Marketing
Act (1929)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
8.
What was the source of the unsoundness of the “fundamental business of the country.”
(Tindall, 1091) in the twenties?
“New Era”
“binders”
Florida Bubble
Great Bull Market
buying on the margin
9.
Why were President Hoover’s actions to ease the Depression unsuccessful?
Hoovervilles
Hoover blankets
Hoover flag
gold standard
Reconstuction Finance
Corporation
Charles G. Dawes
Glass-Steagall Act
Federal Home Loan
Bank Act (1932)
“trickle down economics”
10.
How did events of 1931-32 make these the darkest days of the Depression?
Farmers Holiday
Association
Theodore Bilbo
Scottsboro Boys
Bonus Expeditionary
Force
Anacostia Flats
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower