Deck 24: The New Era

Question 1

What might be called a "second or post-Industrial Revolution," the "roaring economy"
Of the 1920s involved all the following EXCEPT

A) a productivity revolution based on technology.
B) a consumer-goods revolution.
C) a revolution in thinking, in which advertising persuaded consumers to buy now rather than save.
D) a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor unions.

Answer 1

a revolution in labor relations, marked by new growth in the size and influence of labor unions.

Question 2

All of the following are traits attributed to a "New Woman" EXCEPT

A) spiritual.
B) independent.
C) assertive.
D) athletic.

Answer 2

spiritual.

Question 3

Aviator Charles "Lucky Lindy" Lindbergh thrilled the world with his solo, non-stop flight from Long Island, NY to

A) Paris.
B) London.
C) Rome.
D) Madrid.

Answer 3

Paris.

Question 4

What new style of music that fused soulfulness and syncopated rhythms was born in the roaring 20s?

A) ragtime
B) Dixieland
C) rhythm and blues
D) jazz

Question 5

In the early part of the twentieth century, immigration from Mexico jumped for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) recruiting by the AFL in a campaign to increase its membership.
B) recruiting by American farmers in need of farm workers.
C) Mexicans fleeing poverty.
D) Mexicans fleeing the dislocations of revolution.

Question 6

As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover practiced "associationalism." That is, he gave government encouragement and assistance to private business in all the following ways EXCEPT

A) by encouraging the creation of trade associations.
B) by combining the ideal of individualism with the pursuit of efficiency, organization, and cooperation.
C) by advocating laissez-faire policies to avoid government control.
D) by urging businesses to act in the public interest.

Question 7

The weakest area of the American economy through the 1920s was

A) the stock market.
B) agriculture.
C) electric power.
D) the automobile industry.

Question 8

What event signaled the start of the Great Depression, the greatest depression in the history of the modern world?

A) the Great Crash
B) "Black Friday"
C) the Bull Market Bubble
D) Great Britain abandoning the gold standard

Question 9

Added to gasoline, tetraethyl ________ could raise the energy level of "high-octane"
gasoline without causing premature ignition.

Question 10

Urban, Catholic, and "wet,"
________ was defeated for president, but the votes he won signaled an emerging political realignment.

Question 11

The actual amount of cash put down to purchase stock is known as the "________ requirement."

Question 12

What were the "boom industries"
of the 1920s, and how did they contribute to economic growth? Discuss two other factors that account for prosperity in the 1920s.

Question 13

In what ways did the automobile serve simultaneously as an economic catalyst, transportation revolution, and cultural symbol in the 1920s? What role did Henry Ford play in these developments?

Question 14

What was welfare capitalism? How did it work? Why did employers use it? What effect did it have on most wage earners during the 1920s? On unionization?

Question 15

What factors led to the rise of mass society and mass culture in the 1920s?

Question 16

Describe the "New Woman"
and the "New Negro"
of the 1920s. How "new"
were they?

Question 17

Discuss three features of American society in the 1920s that alienated some artists and writers.

Question 18

What was "normalcy,"
and how normal was it?

Question 19

How and why did American business practices change in the 1920s? What effect did those changes have on the economy?

Question 20

Describe the origins and effects of the consumer culture. Why was it critical to prosperity in the 1920s?

Question 21

How successful were women in achieving independence and equality in the 1920s? How successful were African Americans?

Question 22

How did motion pictures, radio, and mass-circulation newspapers and magazines shape American life in the 1920s? Which of these media was the most important?

Question 23

Consider the following statement: "The era of the 1920s witnessed a continual pull between the traditional and the modern."
Explain how the following events reflected the pull of either the traditional or the modern-or both: Aimee Semple McPherson, the New Woman, Prohibition, the KKK, Fundamentalism, advertising.

Question 24

Describe and evaluate the policies of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Who was helped and who hurt or ignored? Why?

Question 25

Why was the election of 1928 important?