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History Test 1920s
History Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is welfare Capitalism? | shortened workweek, raised wages, and paid vacations |
| What was the American Plan? | corporate leaders work to protect open shop |
| What was open shop? | a shp where n worker was required to join a union |
| What is Parity | a formula for setting a price for goods and ensuring they wuld earn back the production cost |
| What bill did Parity became known as | McNary-Haugen Bill |
| What was the Motion Picture Association | controlled the content of films |
| What was the first radio newtwork | National Broadcasting Company |
| what did the Radio Act do? | regulated public airwaves used by private companies |
| What did John B. Watson believe? | child rearing should be the advice of doctors not maternal affection |
| Who was Margaret Sanger? | began the birth control movement becuase large families caused poverty |
| What did the Sheppard Towner Act do | provided funds to establish prenatal and child health care programs |
| Who were known as debunkers | Artists that were critiques on politics religion democracy and society |
| What amendment was prohibition | 18th |
| what were drys and what were wets | wets opposed prohbition drys defended it |
| What did the National Orgins Act of 1924 do | banned immigrant from East Asia and reduced quota for Europeans |
| Whene did the KKK reform | 1915 |
| WHo did the KKK focus on | Catholics jews and foreingers |
| Who were fundamentalists | people who thought the bible was interpreted literally and opposed the teachings of Darwinisms |
| Who were mdernists | adapted religion to science and society |
| What was Scopes trial | a teacher was arrested for teaching Darwinism |
| How was the democratic party split | prohibitionists, klansmen, and fundamentalist against catholics, urban workers and immigrants |
| Who took presidency in 1920 | Warren harding |
| What did Coolidge believe | that government should not interfere with the public |
| What did Herber Hoover lead when he was Commerce Secretarty | Associationlism |
| What was Associationalism | creation of national organization of businessmen in industries |