Deck 21: Prosperity Decade, 1920-1928

Question 1

Intellectuals who left America in the 1920s and became expatriates were:

A)overly concerned with individual needs and ignored the needs of society.
B)shallow and dull.
C)far too liberal.
D)escaping what they considered America's shallowness.

Answer 1

escaping what they considered America's shallowness.

Question 2

Sinclair Lewis and H.L. Mencken were critics of

A)middle-class conformity and materialism.
B)the hedonism of the Roaring Twenties.
C)capitalism.
D)writers who left the United States for Paris.

Answer 2

middle-class conformity and materialism.

Question 3

The most popular hero of the 1920s was:

A)Babe Ruth.
B)Calvin Coolidge.
C)Jack Dempsey.
D)Charles Lindbergh.

Answer 3

Charles Lindbergh.

Question 4

A. P. Giannini's Bank of Italy:

A)was a money-laundering operation for organized crime.
B)cultivated wealthy depositors.
C)went bankrupt.
D)set up branches near homes and workplaces.

Question 5

General Motors and Chrysler competed with Ford by:

A)undercutting Ford's prices.
B)hiring away Ford's best workers.
C)making their cars more comfortable.
D)utilizing more technologically-advanced manufacturing techniques.

Question 6

The "It" in Clara Bow's nickname "The 'It' Girl" stood for:

A)long hair
B)stardom
C)sex appeal
D)cigarettes

Question 7

The clientele of speakeasies was typically:

A)working class men.
B)homeless alcoholics.
C)immigrants.
D)more affluent men and women.

Question 8

The American stock market in the 1920s:

A)was driven partly by real economic growth and partly by speculation.
B)rendered paltry dividends to investors.
C)lacked capital investment from big banks.
D)was characterized by a small number of people borrowing money to buy stocks.

Question 9

All of the following is true about Henry Ford's assembly line, EXCEPT:

A)It made the Model T affordable for millions of American families.
B)It turned the automobile into the symbol of the consumer oriented economy of the 1920s.
C)it made the work process a thoroughly dehumanizing experience.
D)It secured Ford a virtual monopoly in the car industry.

Question 10

All of the following is true about the Eighteenth Amendment, EXCEPT:

A)It symbolized the effort to preserve white, old-stock, Protestant values.
B)Prohibition led to a dramatic drop in alcohol consumption.
C)Prohibition was never well enforced anywhere.
D)In 1926, only 19 percent of Americans supported the ban on liquor.

Question 11

By 1930, women were earning what percentage of bachelor's degrees granted in the United States?

A)10
B)25
C)40
D)75

Question 12

The most popular spectator sport of the 1920s was:

A)hockey.
B)professional football.
C)baseball.
D)golf.

Question 13

One of the ways that American business changed during the 1920s was that it:

A)accepted that labor unions could be a good thing.
B)faced increasing foreign competition.
C)coped with a greater degree of government regulation.
D)used increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques.

Question 14

Through racketeering, gangs:

A)spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress to end Prohibition.
B)stopped people from drinking.
C)gained power in some labor unions.
D)controlled the heroin trade.

Question 15

Who was the best-known poet of the Harlem Renaissance?

A)Paul Robeson
B)Langston Hughes
C)Zora Neale Hurston
D)Alain Locke

Question 16

Which statement best describes American consumers' expenditures in the 1920s?

A)With more homes having access to electricity, they purchased a growing number of household appliances.
B)With automobiles too expensive for all but the wealthy, they continued to buy carriages and other horse-drawn vehicles.
C)With the economy in a state of depression, they demanded durable goods that would last a long time.
D)With an uncertain economy, they abandoned their "buy now, pay later" attitude.

Question 17

Rudolph Valentino soared to fame as a male "sex symbol" with his

A)slapstick comedy.
B)aviation skills.
C)athletic style in baseball.
D)role in The Sheik , set in a fanciful Arabian desert.

Question 18

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the declining prosperity of farmers in the 1920s?

A)European farmers resumed production after World War I.
B)American farmers incurred additional debt in wartime to expand production.
C)Farmers spent lavishly on expensive household goods they couldn't afford.
D)Tax increases, purchases of tractors and trucks and fertilizer cut into farmers' meager earnings.

Question 19

Los Angeles experienced limited growth until:

A)farmers abandoned fruit production during World War I.
B)the automobile arrived in significant numbers during the 1920s.
C)the Owens River was diverted to Los Angeles in 1913.
D)the federal government relaxed regulations for the planting of palm trees.

Question 20

All of the following is true about Jazz, EXCEPT:

A)It drew together several strains in African American music.
B)Jazz moved from the South to the North.
C)Critics feared Jazz would encourage people to abandon sexual self-restraint.
D)Jazz never had a white audience until the 1940s.

Question 21

Throughout the 1920s, the NAACP:

A)advocated welfare for blacks.
B)organized marches and protests throughout the South.
C)tried to secure a federal antilynching law.
D)successfully elected blacks as local officials in northern cities.

Question 22

John Collier:

A)was a principal advocate for Asian American rights.
B)emerged as a leading voice calling for changes in federal Indian policy.
C)was a leader in advocating rights for Mexican Americans.
D)was the president of the NAACP.

Question 23

Religious fundamentalists:

A)urged the federal government to imprison bootleggers for income tax violation.
B)saw evolution only as a threat to the Bible's account of creation.
C)focused exclusively on trying to stop the influx of cheap labor.
D)viewed evolution as a challenge both to the Bible and religion itself.

Question 24

Why did the National Origins Act of 1924 permit unlimited immigration from the Western Hemisphere?

A)To convince Latin American nations to permit free trade with the United States.
B)Latin American nations agreed to allow American intervention in internal affairs in exchange for unlimited immigration.
C)Religious leaders saw it as an opportunity to expose Latinos to Protestantism.
D)Farmers in California needed Mexican labor.

Question 25

When American troops withdrew from the Dominican Republic and Haiti,

A)they left behind a nation in ruins.
B)they left behind a country with a vastly improved national economy, higher standards of living for the residents, and improved educational systems.
C)they left behind better roads, improved sanitation systems, and well equipped national guards, but also pro-American dictators.
D)they vowed never to return.

Question 26

Which statement describing the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is most accurate?

A)It was an exclusively southern organization.
B)It proclaimed itself to be the largest nonprofit organization in America.
C)Some Klansmen entered politics, but the Klan never endorsed candidates.
D)It lost support when a leader was involved in a sex scandal.

Question 27

As secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Mellon:

A)increased taxes on the wealthy.
B)began taxing lower income workers for the first time.
C)secured substantial tax breaks for the affluent.
D)believed tax breaks for low-income workers would stimulate economic growth.

Question 28

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Model T

Question 29

All of the following is true about birth control in the 1920s, EXCEPT:

A)It gained the approval of physicians and the American Medical Association.
B)It became a middle class reform movement.
C)Federal law restricted public distribution of information about contraception.
D)the widespread use of contraceptives meant that abortions were extremely rare.

Question 30

In the 1920s California pioneered legislation

A)that allowed interracial marriage.
B)that legalized homosexuality.
C)that restricted Mexican immigration.
D)that forbade Asian immigrants from owning or leasing land.

Question 31

The Kellog-Briand Pact:

A)renounced war as a means of solving international disputes.
B)was a trade agreement between France and the United States.
C)stopped Japan from invading China in 1931.
D)aided Germany in paying World War I reparations.

Question 32

The National Origins Act of 1924 severely reduced immigration from:

A)Ireland.
B)Sweden.
C)Italy.
D)Mexico.

Question 33

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
General Motors

Question 34

Which statement best characterizes American families in the 1920s?

A)They were getting smaller.
B)They typically had two incomes.
C)Mothers and fathers equally shared responsibility for child rearing.
D)Husbands legally controlled all of the family's property.

Question 35

What event sparked the revival of the Ku Klux Klan?

A)President Wilson appointed an African American minister to Haiti.
B)A Roman Catholic ran for governor of Louisiana.
C)A Jew was accused of rape in Georgia.
D)The film The Birth of a Nation was released.

Question 36

All of the following were new measures of welfare capitalism in the 1920s EXCEPT:

A)health insurance.
B)retirement pensions.
C)paid vacations.
D)full union representation.

Question 37

In regard to labor, the Supreme Court of the 1920s:

A)encouraged unionization.
B)upheld the right to strike.
C)voided laws that had established minimum wages for women and children.
D)ended child labor.

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
A. P. Giannini

Question 39

Many voters in 1928 saw Al Smith as representing:

A)big city, immigrant America.
B)the new, scientific future of America.
C)the interests of big business.
D)small-town, Protestant America.

Question 40

Which of the following was a concern for eugenicists?

A)what they saw as undesirable genetic traits among southern and eastern Europeans.
B)the teaching of evolution in school.
C)unionism.
D)lynching.

Question 41

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
LULAC

Question 42

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
fundamentalism

Question 43

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
speakeasy

Question 44

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
American Plan

Question 45

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Flappers

Question 46

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Railway Labor Act of 1926

Question 47

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Ku Klux Klan

Question 48

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
McNary-Haugen Bill

Question 49

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
bullish

Question 50

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Eugenics

Question 51

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
operating companies

Question 52

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
John Collier

Question 53

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
National Origins Act of 1924

Question 54

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Lou Gehrig

Question 55

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
black separatism

Question 56

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Jazz

Question 57

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Charles Lindbergh

Question 58

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Marcus Garvey

Question 59

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Harlem Renaissance

Question 60

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Charlie Chaplin

Question 61

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Dawes Plan

Question 62

How did conditions for minority groups change in the United States during the 1920s?

Question 63

In what ways did the decade of the 1920s see a reaction to the emergence of modern values?

Question 64

How did American politics reflect American society during the 1920s?

Question 65

To what extent did the "flapper" symbolize the new status of women in the 1920s?

Question 66

Students may wish to examine the effect the automobile had on the American economy and culture.

Question 67

Was Prohibition a success or a failure?

Question 68

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Augusto Sandino

Question 69

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 70

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Al Smith