HIST 2020 Chapter 23 (even numbers)
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America's return to a peacetime economy in 1920 and 1921 was marked by
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a 20 percent unemployment rate, the highest to date.
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President Harding's administration was characterized by
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scandals that touched many members of his administration
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What did the presidential election of 1924, in which Calvin Coolidge defeated John W. Davis and Robert La Follette, reveal about the priorities of American voters?
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The election results revealed voters' lack of support for labor unions, the regulation of business, and the protection of civil liberties
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What was the purpose of the Dawes Plan, which was instituted in 1924
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The plan cut Germany's annual reparations payments in half and initiated fresh American loans to Germany.
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The outcome of the shift toward repetitive assembly-line work and specialized management divisions in the 1920s was
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a tremendous increase in business productivity and overall efficiency
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What did the authors of Middletown conclude from their study of life in a small midwestern town in the 1920s?
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The United States had developed a culture in which everything hinged on money
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Which element of the American economy during the 1920s lay at the heart of its fundamental lack of stability?
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Consumption
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In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented
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a challenge to women's traditional gender roles
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Which of the following statements describes the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, which gave federal assistance to states seeking to reduce high infant mortality rates?
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It was the high point of women's political influence in the 1920s
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During the 1920s, most American women who worked had?
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office and sales jobs
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When black veterans of World War I returned home from their deployments, they found
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race riots and economic hardship
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Which of the following describes the outpouring of African American literature and art in New York City in the 1920s?
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The era in which African American literature and art flooded New York was known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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What did popular culture and consumer goods have in common in the 1920s
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both were mass produced and mass consumed
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In the 1920s, Knute Rockne and Red Grange were associated with
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college and professional football
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One result of the loosening of the traditional bonds of community, religion, and family in the United States in the 1920s was
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the emergence of youth as a distinct social class with their own culture
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During the 1920s, rural Americans perceive cities as
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the sources of vice, religious threats, and other assaults on traditional values
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What did the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial suggest about the United States in the 1920s?
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Antiforeign hysteria was rampant in many areas of the American life
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Which group sponsored a team of lawyers to defend the nine young black men in Scottsboro, Alabama, who were arrested on trumped-up rape charges in 1931?
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the communist party
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Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?
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The KKK had a strong influence on politics in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
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How did Americans respond to Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for president in 1928?
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as a symbol of all they feared—Catholicism, immigration, cities, and liberal attitudes
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By the early 1930s, unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by
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becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest
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When Herbert Hoover took office in 1929, he brought to the presidency
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modern ideas about how businesses should operate
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What did President Hoover do to offer a solution to the human problems of the depression in 1929?
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He instituted a voluntary recovery plan, protective tariffs, and some government intervention, including public works projects and small federal loans to states.
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How did the Great depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
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It created resentment among men who lost their jobs more often than women did
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Among the first signs of economic distress in the United States in the mid-1920s was
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a slowdown in new construction and in automobile sales
