Deck 18: The Rise of American Mass Culture, 1920-1929

Question 1

Who was the Democratic candidate for president in the 1924 election? ​

A)John W.Davis
B)Albert Fall
C)​Robert La Follette
D)​Alfred Smith

Answer 1

John W.Davis

Question 2

The McNary-Haugen Plan,which was introduced in Congress repeatedly in the 1920s,was intended to provide support for ​

A)agriculture.
B)banking.
C)​hydroelectric power plants.
D)​railroad construction.

Answer 2

agriculture.

Question 3

In the 1921-1922 Washington Naval Conference,a commitment to respect one another's territorial possessions was agreed to by all of the following countries except: ​

A)France
B)Great Britain
C)​Japan
D)​the Soviet Union
E)​the United States

Answer 3

​the Soviet Union

Question 4

What was the first national radio network in the United States? ​

A)CBS
B)NBC
C)​ABC
D)​NPR

Question 5

Which change occurred among for women between 1920s and 1930? ​

A)Women started having children later.
B)The number of working women decreased.
C)​Women's wages were almost as high as men's.
D)​The percentage of women in the workforce doubled. 

Question 6

Which group gained least from the prosperity of the 1920s? ​

A)Farmers
B)Factory workers
C)​Railroad workers
D)​Bankers

Question 7

Which African American made a significant contribution to the Harlem Renaissance? ​

A)Marian Anderson
B)Maya Angelou
C)​Marcus Garvey
D)​Zora Neale Hurston

Question 8

Who was President Warren Harding's first secretary of state? ​

A)Charles Evans Hughes
B)Andrew Mellon
C)​Herbert Hoover
D)​William Howard Taft
E)​Henry C.Wallace

Question 9

By 1929,the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans received roughly what percentage of the total annual personal income? ​

A)5 percent
B)12 percent
C)​25 percent
D)​33 percent
E)​45 percent

Question 10

October 24,1929,the day in which 13 million shares of stocks were traded signaling the beginning of the stock market crash is known by what name? ​

A)Crash Monday
B)Ash Wednesday
C)​Black Thursday
D)​Good Friday

Question 11

Which of the following statements regarding the Harlem Renaissance is true? ​

A)It reached its peak in 1920.
B)The movement was discouraged by the NAACP.
C)​It represented and fueled African American pride.
D)​The movement was centered in Chicago.

Question 12

In 1927,Ford attempted to regain market share from General Motors by doing all of the following except ​

A)advertising extensively.
B)introducing a new Model A.
C)​offering credit to car buyers.
D)​dismantling the assembly line.

Question 13

What was the Harlem Renaissance? ​

A)an urban renewal project
B)an African American artistic movement
C)​the migration of African Americans from the South to the North
D)​a political movement calling for desegregation and equal rights

Question 14

How many cars were on U.S.roads in the 1920s? ​

A)less than 1 million
B)roughly 5 million
C)​roughly 20 million
D)​more than 100 million

Question 15

Who founded the American Birth Control League (which later became Planned Parenthood)? ​

A)Carrie Chapman Catt
B)Alain Locke
C)​Alice Paul
D)​Margaret Sanger 

Question 16

Herbert Hoover held which of the following cabinet positions before becoming president? ​

A)Secretary of Commerce
B)Secretary of the Interior
C)​Secretary of State
D)​Secretary of War

Question 17

Langston Hughes and Claude McKay were ​

A)baseball players
B)civil rights leaders
C)​jazz musicians 
D)​writers

Question 18

What does it mean to buy stocks on "margin"? ​

A)to pay just part of the purchase price,with the rest as credit
B)to buy stocks on the advice of inside traders
C)​to pay in advance for new stocks to be issued
D)​to buy stocks without the assistance of a broker

Question 19

General Motors overtook Ford as the 1920s progressed in part because ​

A)Ford could not keep up with demand.
B)Ford did not engage in marketing campaigns.
C)​General Motors introduced the assembly line.
D)​General Motors offered a constant flow of new models.

Question 20

What group benefited most from Margaret Sanger's campaign to make birth control available? ​

A)Catholics
B)wealthy women
C)​middle-class women
D)​poor women

Question 21

Who was the controversial leader of Pan-Africanism who encouraged blacks to travel to Africa? ​

A)W.E.B.DuBois
B)Marcus Garvey 
C)​Langston Hughes
D)​Al Jolson

Question 22

What was the Spirit of St.Louis? ​

A)an airplane
B)a baseball stadium
C)​a book
D)​a movie
E)​a train

Question 23

The 1917 Jones-Shafroth Act gave citizenship to ​

A)Hawaiians
B)Native Americans 
C)​Puerto Ricans
D)​political refugees from Russia
E)​residents of the District of Columbia

Question 24

What change did the Ku Klux Klan undergo in the 1920s? ​

A)It denounced violence to attract a more mainstream following
B)It broadened its goals to include a focus on the repeal of Prohibition
C)​It broadened the targets of hatred to include Jews,Catholics,and Asians
D)​It broadened its membership to include white European Jews and Catholics

Question 25

The first motion picture with sound was The Grapes of Wrath.​

Question 26

F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby depicted ​

A)the beauty of urban society.
B)the horrors of World War I.
C)​the excesses of the Jazz Age.
D)​the artistry of the United States.

Question 27

All of the following contributed to the repeal of Prohibition except ​

A)Americans began to view Prohibition as a restriction on their individual freedoms. 
B)the brewing and liquor interests launched a campaign against the Eighteenth Amendment.
C)​statistics showed that the average consumption of alcohol had increased under Prohibition. 
D)​The spread of bootlegging and organized crime made Prohibition increasingly difficult to enforce.
E)​The federal government recognized it was losing income from potential tax revenues from the sale of liquor.

Question 28

One problem for the U.S.economy in the late 1920s was the uneven distribution of wealth.​

Question 29

Who championed the crusade against evolutionism and helped the prosecution in the Scopes trial? ​

A)Williams Jennings Bryan
B)Clarence Darrow
C)​Florence Kelley
D)​Aimee Semple McPherson
E)​John T.Raulston 

Question 30

In the 1920s,Charles Lindbergh became famous for which of the following? ​

A)winning the Pulitzer Prize for Literature
B)making the first solo trans-Atlantic flight
C)​breaking home run records set by Babe Ruth
D)​becoming the highest-paid athlete in America

Question 31

What was the charge brought against John T.Scopes in 1924? ​

A)violating state segregation laws 
B)teaching the theory of evolution
C)​reciting from the Bible in public school
D)​selling moonshine in violation of Prohibition

Question 32

Boston's Fenway Park was known as "the House that Ruth built." ​

Question 33

What sport did Harold "Red" Grange play in the 1920s? ​

A)baseball
B)basketball 
C)​football
D)​golf
E)​tennis

Question 34

Amelia Earhart made a successful trans-Atlantic flight in in the 1920s. ​

Question 35

President Coolidge supported laws overseeing the new airline industry and the nation's radio airwaves.​

Question 36

The National Origins Quota Act was designed to give preference to immigrants from what region? ​

A)Asia
B)Latin America
C)​Northern Europe
D)​Southern and Eastern Europe

Question 37

Who was Henry L.Mencken? ​

A)the founder of the NAACP
B)the founder of Time magazine
C)​a writer who disparaged older values
D)​a jazz musician who broke racial boundaries

Question 38

What was the new name given to the movement to reaffirm the literal truth of the Bible? ​

A)Creationism
B)Literalism
C)​Humanism
D)​Socialism
E)​Fundamentalism

Question 39

Immigration laws in the 1920s ​

A)delayed citizenship for new immigrants.
B)aligned immigration with needs of businesses for workers.
C)​set quotas for the number of immigrants from various regions.
D)​placed a five-year moratorium on immigration to the United States.

Question 40

Charles Lindbergh gained fame in 1927 by flying on a solo flight between what two cities? ​

A)St.Louis and New York 
B)New York and Paris
C)​Los Angeles and Tokyo
D)​St.Louis and London