Ch. 20 From Business Culture To Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 Pt. 1 Flashcards
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Who was an attorney renowned for his contributions to the causes of labor, racial equality, and civil liberties?
Clarence Darrow
In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a “clear and present danger”?
Shenck v. U.S.
Upon taking office in ____, Warren G. Harding promised a return to ________.
1921
normalcy
Upon taking office in 1921, ______ ___ ______ promised a return to normalcy.
Warren G. Harding
Who were the two immigrants, whose case became a cause célèbre, arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed?
Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti
The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called A. the Harlem Renaissance. B. the Ashcan School. C. the Armory Show. D. the Bronx Revival.
A. the Harlem Renaissance.
Which amendment promoted by Alice Paul was an attempt to eliminate all legal distinctions on account of sex?
the Equal Rights Amendment
Which city became the West’s leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies? A. San Diego, California B. San Francisco, California C. Seattle, Washington D. Los Angeles, California
D. Los Angeles, California
Who said, “the chief business of the American people is business”?
Calvin Coolidge
The 1922 self-imposed guidelines in the film industry that prohibited depicting adultery, nudity, and long kisses, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light was called A. “Banned in Boston.” B. the Hays code. C. the Fortney-McCumber guidelines. D. the Diplomacy guidelines.
B. the Hays code.
Who was the first cabinet member in American history to be convicted of a felony for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?
Albert Fall
Production of the automobile in the 1920s
A. tripled.
B. struggled in the face of foreign competition.
C. increased by 50 percent.
D. caused a surge of migration into rural America.
A. tripled
What were the causes of the Great Depression that began in October 1929?
(1) the collapse of real estate prices in southern California and Florida
(2) the stock market crash
(3) the highly unequal distribution of income and prolonged depression in farm regions
During the 1920s, those who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by this newly coined term (their most well-known leader was Billy Sunday) A. secularists B. fundamentalists C. mainstream Protestants D. Catholics
B. fundamentalists
The open shop—a workplace free of unions (except, in some cases, “company unions”) and free of government regulation—was part of the employer-backed
A. American Plan.
B. Equal Rights Amendment.
C. Federal law 10983.
D. law declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A. American Plan.
The anti-black, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic organization that claimed over 3 million members by the mid-1920s was A. the Anti-Immigration League. B. the American Party. C. the Ku Klux Klan. D. the Know-Nothings.
C. the Ku Klux Klan
Which of the following was not an important cultural trend in 1920s America?
A. a more open expression of sexuality
B. a flowering of urban black culture
C. the rise of a new generation of writers, disaffected by the bland materialism of American culture
D. a growing respect for newly arrived immigrants
D. a growing respect for newly arrived immigrants
In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public school teacher faced charges of violating the state’s law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?
the Scopes trial
Which of the following was not a part of the Republican political perspective during the 1920s?
A. Taxes on business profits and personal income should be lowered.
B. Government regulation of the economy does more harm than good.
C. Government regulation of personal behavior does more harm than good.
D. The labor movement should not expect any support or protection from the federal government.
C. Government regulation of personal behavior does more harm than good.
President Herbert Hoover’s 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did all of the following EXCEPT
A. loaned money to failing banks.
B. offered aid to homeowners threatened by foreclosure.
C. appropriated nearly $2 billion for local relief efforts in public-works projects.
D. offered direct relief to the unemployed.
D. offered direct relief to the unemployed.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
A. Scopes trial; rebirth of Ku Klux Klan; election of Calvin Coolidge; passage of temporary immigration quotas
B. Herbert Hoover victory over Alfred E. Smith; stock market crash; Hawley-Smoot tariff; creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
C. Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti; upholding of Espionage Act by Supreme Court; election of Warren G. Harding; founding of Civil Liberties Bureau
D. Bonus March; passage of permanent immigration quotas; stock market crash
B. Herbert Hoover victory over Alfred E. Smith; stock market crash; Hawley-Smoot tariff; creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
What were the consumer goods in the 1920’s?
(1) vacuum cleaners
(2) washing machines
(3) refrigerators
Who won the presidential election of 1928?
Herbert Hoover
