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Clep 1920s
Clep 1920's The Roaring 20's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Under President Harding's administration, several major scandals rocked the government. One of the biggest ones was the ___scandal, where Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall secretly leased naval oil reserves to private companies in return for "loans." | Teapot dome |
| The Teapot Dome scandal was just one of several scandals involving money during Pres. Harding's term in office. Attorney _____ was convicted for taking bribes, and head of the Veteran's Bureau Charles Forbes was convicted for fraud involving gov. funds. | General Daugherty |
| During the 1920s the gov. was ___ by Rep. who opposed fed. regulation and encouraged business expansion. | dominated |
| The 1920s was a decade of prosperity, ___, and pro-business policies. | prohibition |
| The ___was passed to implement the 18th Amendment--prohibition. | Volstead Act |
| The Volstead Act, also known as the National Act, prohibited the manufacture, transportation and sale of beverages containing more than 0.5 percent alcohol. | Prohibition |
| ___ were illegal saloons which sold 'bootleg' liquor during the time Prohibition was in effect. | Speakeasies |
| The 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, or the ____ . | 18th Amendment |
| What two Amendments were passed in the 1920's which demonstrate a decade of both liberalism and conservatism? | The 18th Amendment brought prohibition. The 19th Amendment gave women suffrage. |
| How did prohibition impact law enforcement? | It encouraged bootlegging and organized crime. |
| The primary reason that Prohibition did not succeed was because many ___ did not believe in prohibition. | Americans |
| Which of the following involved a scandal about government-owned oil fields? a. Crédit Mobilier b. Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy c. Teapot Dome Scandal d. Tweed Ring e. Pentagon Papers | c. Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Republicans had a policy of high tariffs. As part of this policy, the government passed the ____ Tariff in 1922. | Fordney-McCumber |
| The gov. passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff in 1922. Although this did much to protect domestic interests from ___ competition, farmers had to pay more for equip., & Europeans had a harder time making the money they needed to repay war debts to the US. | foreign |
| The government encouraged business expansion in the 1920's, and promoted new industries. The Air Commerce Act of 1926 regulated commercial ___, but also provided federal funding for airport construction, helping the expansion of this industry. | aviation |
| The Air Commerce Act of 1926 was one of the things the government did to stimulate this new industry. It also put up U.S.___ contracts for mail carriers. | airmail |
| One area that did not share in the prosperity of the 1920's was ___ . | agriculture |
| Agriculture suffered a crisis when grain and commodity prices fell sharply in 1920. Just as it had happened in the late nineteenth century, ___ caused a surplus which resulted in this crisis. | overproduction |
| The ___ -Haugen Bill introduced in 1924, but vetoed by President Coolidge twice, tried to deal with the agriculture crisis by proposing that the government purchase farm surpluses. | Mcnary |
| The McNary-Haugen Bill was never actually passed into law. However, the real solution to the problem farmers faced with plummeting ___ on their crops was to limit production. | prices |
| The ___ was a period of antiradical hysteria which started in 1919, shortly after World War I. It especially concerned a fear of communism and paranoia that the United States was on the verge of revolution. | Red scare |
| The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of communists, socialists, & anarchists. Events such as the ____ revolution in Russia, a wave of labor strikes, and other little incidents combined with fervent patriotism in the U.S. contributed to the Red Scare. | Bolshevik |
| A prominent government figure who encouraged and shared the hysteria of the Red Scare period was Attorney General ____ . | Mitchell Palmer |
| Attorney General Mitchell Palmer was convinced that Communist agents were planning to overthrow the American government, and he led a campaign which resulted in the arrests of thousands of suspected communists and ___ . | anarchists |
| In the 1920's, there was a general hostility among Americans towards foreigners. This was reflected in the end of the nation's open immigration policy with the ___ of 1921. | Quota Act |
| The Quota Act of 1921 limited the number of ____ who could enter the United States in one year to 350,000. | immigrants |
| The Quota Act was passed in 1921, ending the United States' ____immigration policy. Three years later, the National Origins Act was passed, further limiting immigration. | open |
| radicals & dissidents. | eastern |
| In the 1920s, in what was known as the "_____," hundreds of thousands of African-Americans left the rural South for the urban North. | Great Migration |
| Hundreds of thousands of African Americans, many of them ____, left the South to work in the North. | sharecroppers |
| in the Gentlemen's Agreement, Japan agreed to stop the flow of Japanese workers to the West Coast of the United States in exchange for the repeal of a California order putting the children of Japanese immigrants in an "___." | Oriental school |
| The Gentleman's Agreement, made in 1908, was in response to ___ in California schools, where the children of Japanese immigrants were required to attend a separate school. | segregation |
| The ___was formed by white southerners after the Civil War, and was revived in Georgia in 1915. Its members were native-born white Protestants and was a strong political force in the mid-1920s with over three million members. | Ku Klux Klan |
| The KKK was strongly supported by the working class of the white Protestant pop. in the Midwest and Southwest, as well as some major cities. It opposed ___, African Am., and non-Protestants. | foreigners |
| Prohibition did reduce the amount of alcohol consumed in the United States, but it led to an increase in ___ as illicit trade in alcohol grew. | organized crime |
| By the mid-1920s, many state legislatures had debated outlawing the teaching of ____, and three states had made it a crime. In the state of Tennessee, a teacher named John Scopes challenged the law. | evolution |
| Case in TN aka the monkey trial,was followed by many Am. because of the 2 men representing the different sides. Clarence Darrow, the most famous lawyer in the U.S. defending Scopes, and ___ , who was a 3-time pres. can. was on the prosecution's side. | William Jennings Bryan |
| There were two key dev. by Henry Ford which made it possible for the incredible growth of the auto industry in the 1920s. Standardization was where every car was made the same, and ____ was where division of labor was used on an assembly line. | mass production |
| Standardization and mass production were the two key developments by ____ which resulted in a drastically cheaper price for a Model T and between 1920 and 1929, the number of cars on the road tripled. | Henry Ford |
| ____ capitalism was where companies tried to provide job satisfaction to employees so that they would not want to join a union. | Welfare |
| Welfare ___ was pioneered by Henry Ford in his car manufacturing plants. Other companies soon followed suit by improving working conditions, and creating programs to maintain worker satisfaction. | capitalism |
| Some companies in the 1920s used ___ contracts, which were contracts in which employees agreed not to join a union. | yellow dog |
| Union membership dropped by nearly two million people in the period between 1920 and 1929 as a result of two management techniques--some companies used welfare capitalism, where they sought to maintain worker _____. | satisfaction |
| Welfare capitalism maintained worker satisfaction so that they would not want to join a ____, while yellow dog contracts legally prevented employees from joining unions. | union |
| Advertising took on a different spirit after World War I, and was used to appeal to people's ____ to affect consumption patterns. | emotions |
| Advertising became an art after WWI, where ad writers were able to blur the distinction between 'want' and 'need'. This was a spin-off of the mass ___ form of advertising used by the gov. during World War I which was successful in shaping public opinion. | propaganda |
| In the 1920s, along with a more aggressive style of advertising, the opportunity to ____ encouraged mass consumption. | buy on credit |
| Companies began to use advertising & gave consumers the option of buying on credit in the ___. The factories were pumping out tons of goods using mass production, and the companies were using these tactics to encourage mass consumption of these products. | 1920s |
| A popular image of a woman of the 1920s is that of the ____, which was a woman with short hair, wore a knee-length dress and turned down hose, and rain boots left unbuttoned. | flapper |
| The 'flapper' was a rebel of her time--a modern woman. She ___ the conventions of acceptable feminine behavior. | defied |
| The United States' first mass ___ was the Universal Negro Improvement Association. | African-American organization |
| The Universal Negro Improvement Association was started by a man named Marcus Garvey, who supported a 'back to ____' movement. A big part of his policy was to promote black economic cooperation. He was later arrested and convicted of fraud. | Africa |
| The ____ Renaissance was a creative movement among African Americans in the 1920s. It involved literature, racial consciousness, explosion of jazz, blues and other forms of music, and other forms of exploration of the black experience. | Harlem |
| Because a black neighborhood, Harlem, in new York, attracted African-Americans who made up this movement, it was known as the Harlem ___. | Renaissance |
| During the 1920s, ___ became a part of popular culture and a major entertainment industry. | motion pictures |
| Motion pictures were a social event and a main activity for young people. Also, commercial ____ began in 1920. | radio |
| The first filmmaker to introduce fade-ins, D.W. Griffith is responsible for ___ (1915) and Orphans of the Storm (1922). | Birth of a Nation |
| Griffith introduced much more than fade effects-- he was also the first to incorporate close-up shots, flashbacks, and even rehearsals. The majority of his work chronicled ___. | historical and social injustices |
| Griffith's : Birth of a Nation" was the longest movie ever produced in its time (ten reels long), and concerned the ____ and the reconstruction period which followed. Birth of a Nation is often criticized for the racial stereotypes it presented. | Civil War |
| After Hollywood experienced a series of scandals and motion pictures grew more suggestive, the studios established the Motion Pictures Producers and ____ Association. | Distributors |
| The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association was formed in 1922 to control the ___ of films. It was also known as the Hays Office after its first president Will Hays. | content |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The ____ was one of the major works of the 1920s and represented the spirit of the times. | Great Gatsby |
| The Great Gatsby was pub. in 1925,& exemplified the new ____'s mystique. | women |
| Writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway were collectively known as the "____." | lost generation |
| Disenchanted with the post-war American lifestyle of the 1920s, many authors of the period went to ____ to spend time with other expatriates in Paris. They were called the "lost generation" because of this self imposed exile. | Europe |
| Among 'lost generation' group, ___ is the most famous and he wrote of the horror of war in books such as A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises. | Hemingway |
| The 19th Amendment | Gave the vote to women |
| When did the Ku Klux Klan reach it's zenith? | 1925 |
| How many peoplel were members of the KKK at its zenith? | 5 Million |
| What helped the KKK grow to its zenith in 1925? | Advertising |
| What four factors broke the KKK power base and discredited it as a political force? | Sex scandals; corruption; poor leadership and public revulsion. |
| In what regions did the KKK have the most effect on local and regional politics until the mid 1920's? | South; Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions. |
| What famous trial took place during the summer of 1925? | The Scopes "Monkey Trial" |
| The Scopes "Monkey Trial" took place in 1925 in Dayton, TN where biology teacher ____ was arrested for teaching evolution. Trial made national news story w/ circus atmosphere. | John Scopes |
| William Jennings Bryant was expert witness in the Scope Trial. Scopes defended by Clarence Darrow. _____ won but were painted in such a bad light that they lost ground in society. | Fundamentalists |
| Fitzgerald wrote about the rebellious youth of the ____ in stories and novels including This side of Paradise (1920) and The Great Gatsby (1925). He criticized the material excess of post-war Am. culture. | Jazz Age |
| The KKK lost much of its membership after in 1925 due to ___ in its leadership and a drop in immigration. | scandals |
| Henry Ford used this management technique as he paid the highest wages in the industry and established a 5-day, 40-hour workweek. | Welfare Capitalism |
| Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and ____were Rep. pres. during the '20s whose policies were stimulating bus.growth, cutting taxes, reducing fed. spending. | Hoover |
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