Deck 4: 1920-1929: The New ERA

Question 1

Warren G. Harding won the presidency by a narrow margin.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Calvin Coolidge believed in governmental regulation of business.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The Supreme Court supported Harding and Coolidge's business-friendly governmental policies.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Politicians in 1920s America believed that U.S. economic power would prevent future wars.

Question 5

The United States loaned over $5 billion abroad between 1925 and 1929.

Question 6

The 1920s saw a drop-off in U.S. involvement in the affairs of Latin American nations.

Question 7

Herbert Hoover won the presidency by a narrow margin.

Question 8

During Prohibition, the U.S. government attempted to impose taxes on bootleggers.

Question 9

Membership among the reconstituted Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was restricted almost entirely to the South.

Question 10

Fundamentalists correlated immoral behavior with the popularization of the theory of evolution.

Question 11

Explain the collapse of Progressivism in the 1920s.

Question 12

What was the connection between Prohibition and the rise of organized crime in the United States?

Question 13

Why did the Ku Klux Klan reemerge in the 1920s, and why were they so widely supported?

Question 14

Who won the 1920 presidential election?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Warren G. Harding
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) Herbert Hoover

Question 15

Who served as the U.S. secretary of the Treasury in the 1920s?

A) Warren G. Harding
B) Charles Forbes
C) Harry Daughtery
D) Andrew Mellon

Question 16

In his two years in office, how many Supreme Court justices did Warren G. Harding appoint?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 17

Who served as Secretary of State in the 1920s?

A) Charles Forbes
B) Charles Evan Hughes
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Andrew Mellon

Question 18

What was the pattern of international money circulation in the 1920s?

A) Germany to Britain/France to the United States to Germany
B) Britain/France to the United States to Germany to Britain/France
C) The United States to Britain/France to Germany to the United States
D) The United States to Germany to Britain/France to the United States

Question 19

The National Origins Act set no limits on immigration from which nation(s) or region(s)?

A) Mexico
B) Canada
C) South America
D) All of the above

Question 20

"I like silence and success better than socialism and sovietism" was the slogan of what political party in the 1924 presidential election?

A) Progressives
B) Democrats
C) Republicans
D) The Bull Moose Party

Question 21

Fiorello H. La Guardia served as a congressman from what state?

A) New Jersey
B) New York
C) Illinois
D) Delaware

Question 22

What congressional act provided for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment prohibiting the sale, consumption, importation, and exportation of intoxicating beverages?

A) The Volstead Act
B) The Blaine Act
C) Security Exchange Act
D) The Hepburn Act

Question 23

One in every how many agents of the Prohibition Bureau were dismissed for corrupt behavior, such as accepting bribes?

A) 2
B) 8
C) 12
D) 50

Question 24

How many years after the Scopes trial did Tennessee repeal the law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution in biology classrooms?

A) 2
B) 13
C) 42
D) 51

Question 25

Which best describes the position advocated Marcus Garvey?

A) Separatist
B) Compatibilist
C) Assimilationist
D) Incompatibilist

Question 26

The "New Negro Renaissance" centered in what city?

A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Philadelphia
D) Baltimore

Question 27

Which was not an argument put forward in the 1920s in favor of the use of contraception?

A) It would emancipate women
B) It would help cleanse the racial composition of the country
C) It would foster proletarian revolution
D) a. and b.

Question 28

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were tried, convicted, and executed in what state?

A) New York
B) Massachusetts
C) Connecticut
D) New Jersey

Question 29

In 1929, X percent of the American people received one-third of all personal income. What is X?

A) 1
B) 5
C) 7
D) 20

Question 30

The New York Stock Exchange crashed in what year?

A) 1928
B) 1929
C) 1930
D) 1931

Question 31

Within a month of "Black Thursday," the value of Wall Street stocks had plummeted by what percent?

A) 15 percent
B) 25 percent
C) 50 percent
D) 75 percent

Question 32

Between 1929 and 1930, unemployment in the United States increased by what number (from 1.5 million)?

A) 900,000
B) 1.5 million
C) 1.9 million
D) 2.7 million

Question 33

According to the text, which is not one of the ways in which the United States in the 1920s contributed to laying the groundwork for the Great Depression?

A) It adopted an isolationist stanc
B) It invested heavily in overseas markets
C) It established high tariffs
D) None of the above

Question 34

Talk About:
-Benito Mussolini

Question 35

Talk About:
-Black Thursday

Question 36

Talk About:
-Calvin Coolidge

Question 37

Talk About:
-Dawes Plan

Question 38

Talk About:
-Equal Rights Amendment

Question 39

Talk About:
-fascism

Question 40

Talk About:
-Herbert Hoover

Question 41

Talk About:
-Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 42

Talk About:
-Ku Klux Klan

Question 43

Talk About:
-Marcus Garvey

Question 44

Talk About:
-Margaret Sanger

Question 45

Talk About:
-National Origins Act

Question 46

Talk About:
-organized crime

Question 47

Talk About:
-prohibition

Question 48

Talk About:
-Robert La Follette

Question 49

Talk About:
-Sacco-Vanzetti trial

Question 50

Talk About:
-Scopes trial

Question 51

Talk About:
-Teapot Dome

Question 52

Talk About:
-Washington Naval Conference

Question 53

What was the "culture clash" of the 1920s? How did it play out across various spheres, such as the law, politics, education, private life, and race relations? Was it peculiar to the 1920s, or did it follow from prior decades and continue into subsequent decades?

Question 54

Discuss the failure of Prohibition. Many have argued that Prohibition proves that there are limits to what a government can effectively legislate. Intoxicating beverages were illegal in the 1920s, yet as a leading Prohibition agent testified, it took only eleven minutes to procure a drink in Pittsburgh, and only thirty-five seconds in New Orleans. Why did Prohibition fail? Could it have worked, or was it doomed to failure? If it could have worked, how? If it was doomed to failure, why? Many unpopular laws remain on the books and continue to be enforced. In many parts of the United States today, illegal drugs such as cocaine are as easily procured as a drink in New Orleans under Prohibition, yet cocaine remains illegal. Was Prohibition somehow different from other unpopular or apparently unenforceable laws? If so, how and why?