Ch 20

Fundamentalists supported Prohibition, while others viewed it as a violation of individual freedom.

All of the statements about Henry Ford's "Fordlandia" are true EXCEPT:

As a response to the Great Depression and in contrast to previous federal economic policy:

What united the authors Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s?

Cultural pluralism:

"Banned in Boston" referred to:

How was American life different in the 1920s than in the years prior?

What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

Meyer v. Nebraska:

Which of the following best describes the economic dynamic of the Great Depression?

The stock market crash caused the Great Depression.

Which of the following statements is accurate about the 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Alfred E. Smith?

Warren G. Harding:

The United States had never faced an economic crisis as severe as the Great Depression.

During the 1920s:

The Hays Code:

Twenty thousand unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945.

The automobile:

In the 1920s, immigration restriction included all of the following EXCEPT:

The Harlem Renaissance:

The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

Nearly every major women's organization supported Alice Paul's National Woman's Party's proposal for an Equal Rights Amendment.

Labor unions lost members in the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

In their 1929 study, Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd:

Which of the following statements about farm mechanization is FALSE?

In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court:

The Great Depression was global, affecting almost every country in the world.

President Harding's call for a return to normalcy meant:

The prevailing jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court in the 1920s can best be described as:

Propaganda campaigns launched by big business linked unionism and socialism as examples of the sinister influence of foreigners on American life during the 1920s.

"Slumming" meant:

During the 1920s:

Which of the following statements about consumer goods in the 1920s is NOT accurate?

How did fundamentalist Christians define freedom in the 1920s?

The Equal Rights Amendment:

American foreign policy during the 1920s:

How did World War I's Committee on Public Information (CPI) inspire business in the 1920s?

The 1920s term "undesirable" was replaced with "illegal alien" in the 1980s to describe persons without legal status in the United States.

American farmers in the 1920s:

The image of big business, carefully cultivated during the 1920s, collapsed as congressional investigations revealed massive irregularities among bankers and stockbrokers.

The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

The term "New Negro" in art meant the rejection of established stereotypes and a search for black values to put in their place.

Which of the following best describes the significance of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff of 1922?

The Sacco-Vanzetti case:

Assess the record of the U.S. Supreme Court on civil liberties during World War I.

All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:

The Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis began to speak up for freedom of speech in the 1920s.

In the early twentieth century, the Ku Klux Klan reemerged in the South, targeting only blacks.

Assess the state of the Democratic Party in 1924.

In the 1920s, employers embraced the American Plan, which:

What did Hoover's observation during the depth of the Depression that "many persons left their jobs for the more profitable one of selling apples" indicate?

Once married, the flapper often continued her liberation and freedom.

What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?