Deck 6: Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression, 1920-1932

Question 1

Henry Ford was able to lower the price of the Model T from $800 to $300 because of

A) accessing less expensive steel
B) lower wages for his employees
C) accessing less expensive rubber
D) mass production
E) die stamping

Answer 1

mass production

Question 2

The Sheppard-Towner Act mandated that the states and communities provide at least _______ percent of the funding and administer the operation of the programs.

A) 10%
B) 25%
C) 50%
D) 75%
E) 100%

Answer 2

50%

Question 3

Henry Ford

A) invented the automobile.
B) invented the gas engine.
C) invented air brakes.
D) invented the assembly line.
E) invented the conveyor belt.

Answer 3

invented the assembly line.

Question 4

What policy(ies) did the Republican-controlled Congress and White House of the 1920s approve?

A) increased tariffs
B) reduced tax rates for the wealthiest Americans
C) raised tax exemptions
D) reduced estate taxes
E) all of the above

Question 5

The introduction of "Welfare Capitalism" offered

A) profit sharing.
B) pensions.
C) paid vacations.
D) funding for workers' recreation and social clubs.
E) all the above.

Question 6

In the 1920s, nearly all federal revenue was dedicated to

A) national defense.
B) social programs
C) repayment of wartime loans.
D) A and B.
E) A and C.

Question 7

Which of these statements is not true of the Volstead Act?

A) It greatly impacted the sale, production, and consumption of alcohol.
B) It added significantly to the cost of alcohol.
C) It ended the practice of daily consumption of alcohol for the working class.
D) It lowered Americans regard for law enforcement.
E) It was largely ignored

Question 8

The "stretch out" was a technique whereby

A) the quality of a fabric was decreased while the size was maintained.
B) employers fired a large number of workers requiring the remaining workers to work faster.
C) excess profits were transferred to the following year's balance sheets.
D) excess goods were held over to the next year to balance trade agreements.
E) employees slowed the assembly line to maintain a safer work environment.

Question 9

The Sheppard-Towner Act was the first federally funded program designed to promote

A) prohibition.
B) women's and children's health
C) equal education.
D) immigration quotas.
E) workers' rights.

Question 10

Ford's assembly line increased production by

A) 10%
B) 15%
C) 25%
D) 50%
E) 75%.

Question 11

The term "oligarchy" refers to

A) the obligation of the federal government to develop social welfare programs.
B) the influence of foreign capital on American businesses.
C) control of one or more branch(es) of government by one party.
D) control of an entire industry by a handful of large corporations.
E) none of the above.

Question 12

The Teapot Dome Scandal refers to a scandal when the federal government

A) permitted states first rights to public land.
B) permitted auctions of public land.
C) permitted private oil companies drilling rights on public land.
D) permitted private coal mining companies mining rights on public land.
E) permitted private railroad companies first rights to public land.

Question 13

Which is not true of the Ku Klux Klan that reemerged in 1915?

A) It sought to return African Americans to a condition resembling slavery.
B) It sought to prevent the immigration of any nonwhite and non-Protestant family from non-western European origin.
C) It was influenced by the eugenicist movement.
D) It was nonviolent.
E) A substantial number of state legislators were members.

Question 14

Henry Ford's Five Dollar Plan, at one time or another, required that employees not

A) smoke.
B) drink.
C) live fast life styles.
D) embrace socialism.
E) All the above.

Question 15

Which state had the largest Klan membership?

A) New York
B) Indiana
C) Alabama
D) Texas
E) Wyoming

Question 16

The American Plan sought to

A) create parity among the races.
B) provide low-interest mortgage loans.
C) increase medical care for women and children.
D) combat foreign influences.
E) challenge the legitimacy of unions.

Question 17

Which sport was not only the most popular during the 1920s but actually helped break down the racial barriers prevalent during that time?

A) baseball
B) football
C) basketball
D) soccer
E) bowling

Question 18

Who was sometimes referred to as the "Black Babe Ruth"?

A) Jack Trice
B) Kenichi Zenimura
C) Ernie Banks
D) Jackie Robinson
E) Josh Gibson

Question 19

By the end of the 1920s, how many Americans owned cars?

A) One in five
B) One in ten
C) One in fifteen
D) One in twenty
E) One in twenty-five

Question 20

What professional group profited the most from Prohibition?

A) Lawyers
B) Doctors
C) Dentists
D) Bankers
E) Government officials

Question 21

The Emergency Quota Law of 1921 limited the number of immigrants from a particular country to _______ percent of the total number from that country living in the United States in 1910.

A) one
B) two
C) three
D) four
E) five

Question 22

__________ was president during the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Warren G. Harding
C) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
D) Herbert Hoover
E) Woodrow Wilson

Question 23

The name most associated with the new Pan-Africanism movement of the 1920s is

A) Booker T. Washington
B) W.E.B. DuBois
C) Alain Locke
D) Marcus Garvey
E) Oscar De Priest

Question 24

Langston Hughes was an African-American

A) musician
B) legislator
C) educator
D) baseball player
E) poet

Question 25

Between 1880 and 1920, __________ million immigrants entered the United States.

A) one
B) twelve
C) twenty-four
D) thirty-six
E) forty-eight

Question 26

The 1920s term ________ was used to describe the new modern woman.

A) Vogue girl
B) Lindsy
C) Gibson girl
D) Flapper
E) Sweater girl

Question 27

Who is known as the "Father of Black History"?

A) Booker T. Washington
B) W.E.B. DuBois
C) Carter G. Woodson
D) Marcus Garvey
E) Oscar De Priest

Question 28

The trials of which two men demonstrated that the Red Scare extended throughout the 1920s?

A) Camora-Falconne
B) Calvi-Ambrosiano
C) Arapi-Arcobaleno
D) Sacco-Vanzetti
E) Lafaso-Gareri

Question 29

What trial pitted religious beliefs about the creation of man against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

A) Scopes Monkey Trial
B) Sweet Trial
C) Leopold and Loeb Trial
D) Massie Trial
E) Chamberlain "Dingo" Trial