History Chapter 31 Terms – Flashcards
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Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was
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production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile.
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Jazz music was developed by
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American blacks
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Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of
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income tax invasion
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The most spectacular and deadly example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was in
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Chicago
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The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because
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it was a commercial business dependent on advertising.
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The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against
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southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.
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The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because
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the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists.
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The Scopes "Monkey Trial" represented a tragic, embarrassing, and final political curtain call for prosecution expert
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William Jennings Bryan
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The short-term legal outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that
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biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined.
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The long-term outcome of the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
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represented, at best, a hollow victory for Fundamentalism because it cast ridicule of the fundamentalist cause and highlighted the dubious rationality of a relying on a literal theological reading of the Bible to overturn the findings of modern science.
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The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, most
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Americans lived in cities
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Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from
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foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they emigrated to America.
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The Ku Klux Klan nearly collapsed in the late 1920s when
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the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.
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The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
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the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.
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The American airline industry in the 1920s made most of its early profits through
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mail contracts with the federal government.
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The dangerous proviso that Germany attached to its Sussex pledge not to attack unarmed neutral shipping was the requirement that
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the United States would have to persuade the Allies to end their blockade of Germany or submarine warfare would be resumed.
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Which of the following was not among prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s?
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Ralph Ellison
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The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except
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opposition to prohibition
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Businesspeople used the red scare to
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break the backs of fledgling unions.
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The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as
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a celebration of black culture and creative expression of a prominent and vibrant black community in the North.
