Ch. 20 From Business Culture To Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 Pt. 2

Question 1

In _____, _________ candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.

Answer 1

1928

Democratic

Question 2

In 1928, Democratic candidate ______ __ _____ was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.

Answer 2

Alfred E. Smith

Question 3

In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first _______ to be nominated for president by a major party.

Answer 3

Catholic

Question 4

The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between _____ and ______ Americans, as well as traditional and “modern” Christianity

Answer 4

rural

urban

Question 5

The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as _________ and “_______” Christianity

Answer 5

traditional

modern

Question 6

True or False: As real workers’ wages rose by 25 percent in the period between 1922 to 1929, the sharply unequal distribution of wealth that characterized the nineteenth-century United States gave way increasingly to an equal distribution of wealth.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

True or False: Comparatively high wages and efficient mass production characterized the American economy of the 1920s.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Business leaders like ______ _____, and engineers like _______ ________ were cultural heroes in the 1920s.

Answer 8

Henry Ford

Herbert Hoover

Question 9

True or False: Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

___________ was a principal component of the American character in the 1920s.

Answer 10

Consumerism

Question 11

True or False: Presidents Harding and Coolidge were very similar in personality, but very different in political outlook.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or False: Remarkably, the stock market crash and subsequent depression did little to diminish popular reverence for big business.

Answer 12

False

Question 13

_______ _______ preferred “associational action” to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies.

Answer 13

Herbert Hoover

Question 14

Herbert Hoover preferred “___________ ______” to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies.

Answer 14

associational action

Question 15

True or False: By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: American women overwhelmingly supported the Equal Rights Amendment; American men overwhelmingly opposed it.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

True or False: In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False: Quick action by President Hoover’s administration kept millions of American families from losing their life savings, when, in the early 1930s, hundreds of banks across the United States failed.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

True or False: Farmers experienced booming profits during the 1920s.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

By _____, the United States produced more than ___ percent of the world’s manufactured goods.

Answer 20

1929

40

Question 21

The rights an individual may assert even against Democratic majorities—including freedom of speech—are called “_____ _______”

Answer 21

civil liberties

Question 22

President ______ __ ______ died suddenly of a heart attack in 1923.

Answer 22

Warren G. Harding

Question 23

President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a _____ ______ in _____.

Answer 23

heart attack

1923

Question 24

True or False: In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or False: President Hoover and his Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon took quick, decisive action to curtail the economic downturn that began in October 1929.

Answer 25

False