Deck 20: From Business Culture to the Great Depression: the Twenties, 1920 -1932

Question 1

MATCHING
slumming

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Answer 1

whites seeking exotic adventure

Question 2

MATCHING
Warren Harding

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Answer 2

Teapot Dome scandal

Question 3

MATCHING
Scopes trial

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Answer 3

Fundamentalism

Question 4

MATCHING
Alice Paul

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 5

MATCHING
Hays Code

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 6

MATCHING
Sacco-Vanzetti

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 7

MATCHING
Bonus March

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 8

MATCHING
Henry Ford

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 9

MATCHING
Reconstruction Finance Corporation

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 10

MATCHING
American Civil Liberties Union

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 11

MATCHING
New Negro

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 12

MATCHING
John Scopes

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 13

MATCHING
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 14

MATCHING
Bruce Barton

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 15

MATCHING
James McReynolds

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 16

MATCHING
Fordlandia

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 17

MATCHING
Alfred
E. Smith

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 18

MATCHING
Claude McKay

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 19

MATCHING
Leo Frank

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 20

MATCHING
Robert and Helen Lynd

A)moving assembly line
B)Meyer v. Nebraska
C)The Man Nobody Knows
D)Harlem Renaissance
E)Middletown
F)theory of evolution
G)anarchists
H)Catholic presidential candidate
I)Jewish factory manager
J)Supreme Court justice
K)ERA
L)Teapot Dome scandal

Question 21

What did Andre Siegfried observe Americans consider to be a "sacred acquisition"?

A) the right to vote
B) a standard of living
C) ownership of a home
D) working for a living wage
E) civil liberties

Question 22

In the 1920s, employers embraced the American Plan, which:

A) was developed by the Communist Party.
B) was another term for Americanization.
C) was applauded by the American Federation of Labor.
D) advocated government regulation of business.
E) advocated the "open shop."

Question 23

What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?

A) civil rights
B) internationalism
C) spreading liberty
D) business
E) going to church

Question 24

MATCHING
Border Patrol

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 25

For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:

A) voting.
B) owning her own property.
C) the ERA.
D) the right to choose her lifestyle.
E) becoming a wife and mother.

Question 26

During the 1920s, consumer goods:

A) were marketed only to wealthy Americans.
B) had little impact on American life.
C) included vacuum cleaners and washing machines, which Americans paid for exclusively in cash.
D) were frequently purchased on credit.
E) increased the demand for domestic servants.

Question 27

MATCHING
Ku Klux Klan

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 28

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

A) were all out of reach of most consumers.
B) helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.
C) were not yet available.
D) appealed only to women.
E) were only available in urban areas.

Question 29

MATCHING
National Origins Act

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 30

The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

A) demonstrated that the 1920s was a decade of social harmony.
B) demonstrated that the Red Scare enhanced basic American freedoms.
C) demonstrated that antiradical sentiment declined following World War I.
D) demonstrated how the Red Scare extended into the 1920s.
E) demonstrated that anti-immigrant sentiment declined following World War I.

Question 31

During the 1920s:

A) an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty.
B) real wages rose faster than corporate profits.
C) wealth became more evenly distributed.
D) small auto companies flourished.
E) New England experienced an industrial revival.

Question 32

The Equal Rights Amendment:

A) was proposed by the Women's Trade Union League.
B) proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex.
C) protected mother's pensions.
D) had widespread support from all major female organizations.
E) became law along with an amendment banning child labor.

Question 33

MATCHING
Punjo investigations

A)Fundamentalism
B)discriminated against Catholics and Jews
C)set quotas for immigration
D)rejection of established stereotypes for blacks
E)global spread of American corporations
F)illegal alien
G)government loan agency
H)protected civil liberties
I)whites seeking exotic adventure
J)adopted by film industry
K)Wall Street corruption revealed
L)unemployed WWI veterans

Question 34

The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of:

A) televisions.
B) railroad cars.
C) automobiles.
D) steel.
E) textiles.

Question 35

During the 1920s, American multinational corporations:

A) resisted new ventures abroad in the aftermath of World War I.
B) demonstrated limited interest in controlling raw materials in other countries.
C) produced few automobiles for international markets.
D) extended their reach throughout the world.
E) reduced investments oversees.

Question 36

Labor unions lost members in the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A) companies supported propaganda campaigns that linked unions with socialism.
B) companies began to adopt a program of "welfare capitalism."
C) labor unions were tarnished by the 1919 labor upsurge.
D) some corporations began to provide employees with pensions and medical insurance.
E) through collective bargaining, labor unions had secured a national eight-hour day.

Question 37

Who was sentenced to death in a controversial criminal trial?

A) Felix Frankfurter
B) Eugene Debs
C) Nicola Sacco
D) Clarence Darrow
E) Leo Frank

Question 38

Railroads were to the late nineteenth century what ____________ were to the 1920s.

A) cars
B) radios
C) stock markets
D) telephones
E) airplanes

Question 39

All of the statements about Henry Ford's "Fordlandia" are true EXCEPT:

A) Fordlandia was a success.
B) Fordlandia was a town created by Henry Ford in the Amazon.
C) Ford built Fordlandia to create a supply of rubber for tires.
D) Fordlandia is an example of how American corporations spread across the globe in the 1920s.
E) In Fordlandia, Ford sought to provide his workers with what he considered the proper standard of life.

Question 40

Agriculture in the 1920s:

A) enjoyed its golden age.
B) did not see an increase in mechanization or use of fertilizers and insecticides.
C) did not significantly increase production.
D) experienced declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures.
E) experienced an increase in the number of farms and farmers.

Question 41

The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

A) President Harding's illicit affair with a young woman.
B) the Veterans' Bureau, which took bribes from the sale of government supplies.
C) the attorney general, who took bribes not to prosecute accused criminals.
D) the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.
E) Herbert Hoover, who received money in exchange for granting favored trading status to Great Britain.

Question 42

The flapper:

A) epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.
B) represented a new political movement.
C) represented a new economic radicalism.
D) disapproved of smoking.
E) demanded a return to earlier standards of behavior.

Question 43

In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court:

A) overturned the lower court conviction of a Socialist.
B) argued that bans on dangerous speech were constitutional.
C) expanded the protection of free speech.
D) found certain fire-safety regulations unconstitutional.
E) overturned the conviction of Eugene V. Debs for an antiwar speech.

Question 44

Many forces predisposed Ku Klux Klan members to accept the group's exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Coolidge's economic policies.
B) the 1915 film release of Birth of a Nation.
C) "100 percent Americanism," which developed during World War I.
D) the 1921 and 1924 Immigration Acts.
E) the rise of fundamentalism.

Question 45

Which presidency was plagued with scandals?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Warren Harding
E) Theodore Roosevelt

Question 46

All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:

A) Prohibition reduced American consumption of alcohol.
B) Prohibition was violated by many Americans.
C) Prohibition led to widespread corruption among law officials.
D) Prohibition led to large profits for the owners of speakeasies and for the bootleggers who supplied them.
E) Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom.

Question 47

Which statement about politics in the 1920s is FALSE?

A) Voter turnout had fallen dramatically since the turn of the century.
B) Women took an active role in national politics, overwhelmingly supporting the Republican Party.
C) Republicans controlled the White House and supported pro-business policies.
D) The South was dominated by the Democratic Party.
E) Congress continued the trend toward restricting certain groups of people from entering the United States.

Question 48

Which would NOT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?

A) had bobbed hair
B) advocated temperance
C) used birth control
D) wore short skirts
E) smoked in public

Question 49

Robert La Follette ran for president in 1924:

A) as a Socialist Party candidate.
B) as a Progressive Party candidate.
C) as a Republican.
D) as a Democrat.
E) and won.

Question 50

During the 1920s:

A) the Federal Trade Commission aggressively regulated business.
B) government polices reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.
C) Nebraska senator George W. Norris represented the interests of business.
D) the Harding administration distanced itself from the business community.
E) the courts became increasingly pro-labor.

Question 51

President Harding's call for a return to normalcy meant:

A) bringing back the Progressive spirit of reform.
B) demobilizing from World War I.
C) getting women back into the home from their wartime jobs.
D) a call for the regular order of things, without excessive reform.
E) an end to the radicalism of the Red Scare.

Question 52

The McNary-Haugen Bill:

A) was supported by Calvin Coolidge.
B) was designed to make U.S. Steel more competitive.
C) proposed the government purchase of farm products so as to raise prices.
D) proposed the government purchase of textiles so as to raise prices.
E) outlawed lynching.

Question 53

All of the following are examples of economic foreign policy designed to improve American business EXCEPT:

A) U.S. loans to Germany.
B) rejecting the League of Nations.
C) Fordney-McCumber tariff.
D) securing access to oil in Venezuela.
E) the Red Line Agreement.

Question 54

"Banned in Boston" referred to:

A) a book ban in the city, including books by Ernest Hemingway.
B) Prohibition coming to the city and the elimination of all liquor.
C) the crackdown on prostitution and gambling, both perceived to be run by the Irish.
D) the condemnation of Americanization programs, meaning diversity was celebrated in the city.
E) Calvin Coolidge's tenure as governor when he banned all strikes of public service employees.

Question 55

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:

A) generally voted with Oliver Wendell Holmes to further limit free speech.
B) was a conservative force during the 1920s.
C) voted in favor of the Hays Code.
D) crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s.
E) voted in support of Anita Whitney's attempt to overturn her conviction.

Question 56

American foreign policy during the 1920s:

A) reflected the close working relationship between government and business.
B) expanded on Woodrow Wilson's goal of internationalism.
C) included the lowering of tariffs.
D) discouraged American business investment abroad.
E) included a complete retreat from military intervention.

Question 57

In their 1929 study, Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd:

A) found that Americans were increasingly involved in local politics.
B) argued that leisure activities and consumption had replaced political involvement.
C) based their findings on a study of Los Angeles and New York City.
D) based their findings on a study of Chicago.
E) noted the increase in voter participation with the enfranchisement of women.

Question 58

The Scopes trial illustrated a divide between:

A) modernism and fundamentalism.
B) Progressives and Democrats.
C) liberalism and conservativism.
D) cultural diversity and nativism.
E) feminism and machismo.

Question 59

The Hays Code:

A) banned certain works of literature in Boston.
B) banned Socialists from speaking at public universities.
C) prohibited movies from depicting nudity, long kisses, and adultery.
D) prohibited movies from showing business in a negative way.
E) prohibited the mailing of material with sexual content.

Question 60

The Scopes trial of 1925:

A) involved a teacher who espoused Social Darwinism.
B) pitted creationists against evolutionists.
C) was a victory for religious fundamentalism.
D) was a victory for birth-control advocates.
E) ended once and for all the discussion of teaching the theory of evolution in public schools.

Question 61

The 1924 Immigration Act:

A) prohibited all Mexican immigration.
B) set quotas based on the census of 1900.
C) set quotas that favored immigration from northern and western Europe.
D) set quotas that favored immigration from southern and eastern Europe.
E) expanded Asian immigration.

Question 62

In 1928, Herbert Hoover:

A) won the presidency, primarily because of his sterling reputation and the general, apparent prosperity of the nation.
B) lost the presidency, primarily because he was a Catholic.
C) called for repeal of Prohibition.
D) ran for president as a Democrat.
E) had little government experience.

Question 63

A main cause of the Great Depression was:

A) Hoover's ties with business.
B) increased European demand for American goods.
C) declining American purchasing power.
D) excessive government regulation of business.
E) the 1924 Immigration Act.

Question 64

Cultural pluralism:

A) was the adopted philosophy of the Ku Klux Klan.
B) described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.
C) was denounced by Randolph Bourne.
D) described the mood in Congress when it passed the 1924 Immigration Act.
E) was the driving force behind the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Question 65

In 1923, the Meyer v. Nebraska decision:

A) strengthened the cause of Americanization.
B) further banned free speech.
C) made constitutional the ban on the teaching of German.
D) had an impact only on German immigrants.
E) was a startling reversal in the cause of Americanization.

Question 66

Hoover's response to the Depression included all of the following measures EXCEPT:

A) a tax increase.
B) higher tariffs.
C) the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
D) the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
E) a reduction in the size of the army.

Question 67

Which issue became the focus of the 1928 presidential race?

A) the qualifications of Hoover to be president
B) the fact that Alfred Smith was Catholic
C) government regulations on business
D) immigration policy
E) what global leadership role America should take

Question 68

All of the following statements about the1924 Immigration Act are true EXCEPT:

A) the 1924 Immigration Act reflected the Progressive desire to improve the quality of democratic citizenship and to employ scientific methods to set public policy.
B) the 1924 Immigration Act satisfied the demands of large farmers in California, who relied heavily on seasonal Mexican labor, by not setting limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere.
C) the 1924 Immigration Act barred immigration from Asia.
D) the 1924 Immigration Act limited immigration from Europe.
E) the 1924 Immigration Act sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe than from northern and western Europe.

Question 69

Regarding public education, in 1922, Oregon became the first state to:

A) require students to be instructed only in English.
B) require all students to attend public school.
C) formally segregate their schools.
D) allow women to earn postgraduate degrees.
E) allow students to attend private schools instead.

Question 70

Slumming meant:

A) blacks migrating from the South to the North during the Great Migration.
B) flappers not working and living off their parents' wealth.
C) whites going to Harlem's dancehalls, jazz clubs, and speakeasies.
D) speculating on the stock market.
E) living in the Hoovervilles.

Question 71

The Ku Klux Klan:

A) declined in the 1920s and eventually disappeared completely.
B) flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the North and West.
C) had fewer than 500 members nationwide by the mid-1920s.
D) continued to only target African-Americans.
E) was limited in its political influence.

Question 72

The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

A) many Americans took to the road in search of work.
B) many Americans left cities for the countryside.
C) there was massive unemployment.
D) many Americans lived in Hoovervilles.
E) the America suicide rate declined.

Question 73

The Harlem Renaissance:

A) included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.
B) included singers such as Etta James and Dinah Washington.
C) privileged an African heritage over that of the black experience in the South.
D) downplayed racism in America.
E) represented a rejection of capitalism.

Question 74

What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

A) more Catholic and Jewish schools funded by federal monies
B) laws prohibiting discrimination against immigrants by employers, colleges, and government agencies
C) benevolent societies for religious groups to be supported by the federal government in the major East Coast cities
D) a stronger effort by the federal government to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan
E) a new immigration law to overturn the Immigration Act of 1924

Question 75

Besides work and school, the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920s were:

A) churches, political parties, and fraternal organizations.
B) the Ku Klux Klan and the Immigrant Restriction League.
C) the Supreme Court and Congress.
D) dance halls, department stores, and movie theaters.
E) women's organizations and the NAACP.

Question 76

The Cable Act of 1922 stated that:

A) American women who married Asian men forfeited their nationality.
B) lunatics, illiterates, and prostitutes were barred from entering the United States.
C) interstate commerce regulated by the ICC was barred from being further regulated by state or local agencies.
D) the United States Senate was not going to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations.
E) the Border Patrol was created for regulating immigration along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Question 77

The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

A) a land speculation bubble in Florida.
B) an unequal distribution of wealth.
C) an agricultural recession throughout the decade.
D) stagnated sales in the auto and consumer goods industries after 1926.
E) increased government regulation of banking and the stock market.

Question 78

Meyer v. Nebraska:

A) overturned the ban on child labor.
B) ruled that the maximum number of hours a woman could work cannot be legislated.
C) overturned a law that stated public schools would instruct classes in English.
D) upheld that the Espionage Act was constitutional.
E) ruled that evolution could not be taught in public schools.

Question 79

Which city was considered the "capital" of black America?

A) Chicago
B) Detroit
C) Harlem
D) Los Angeles
E) New Orleans

Question 80

Cultural pluralism:

A) challenged the idea that southern and eastern Europeans were unfit to become citizens.
B) was another way of describing the process of Americanization.
C) represented the underlying principles of the 1924 Immigration Act.
D) was a theory that shaped most public policy during the 1920s.
E) was not favored by most immigrants.