Chapter 12

Question 1

This is known as prejudice against foreign people.

Answer 1

nativism

Question 2

These two men were arrested and charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard. Arrested because they were immigrants and anarchists.

Answer 2

Sacco & Vanzetti

Question 3

This group of cronies were the president’s poker playing buddies.

Answer 3

Ohio gang

Question 4

Campaigned for president in 1928 on the promise of economic growth. Eventually
everything concerning the Great Depression was blamed on him.

Answer 4

Herbert Hoover

Question 5

An economic and political society based on a single-party government ruled by a
dictatorship.

Answer 5

Communism

Question 6

In 1903, this man wanted to build a car that everyone could afford.

Answer 6

Henry Ford

Question 7

This group was devoted to 100% Americanism.

Answer 7

The KKK

Question 8

What group pledged to avoid strikes?

Answer 8

American Federation of Labor

Question 9

This act set up the quota system.

Answer 9

The Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Question 10

In 1925, this man founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to help African
Americans gain a fair wage.

Answer 10

Philip Randolph

Question 11

Protested low wages and long work days. His protests caused the coal miners to strike.

Answer 11

John Lewis

Question 12

In 1928, fifteen countries signed this pact, which renounced war as a national policy.
The pact was futile, as it provided no means of enforcement.

Answer 12

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 13

This group of people were excluded from most unions.

Answer 13

African-Americans

Question 14

This plan was named after an American banker that was sent to negotiate loans to
Germany. In this plan, American investors loan Germany $2.5 billion to pay back Britain and
France. It also calmed fears of another war.

Answer 14

Dawes Plan

Question 15

A widespread fear of Communism in the United States.

Answer 15

Red Scare

Question 16

In 1922, Americans adopted this tariff, which raised taxes on U.S. imports to 60
percent. This was the highest level ever.

Answer 16

Fordney McCumber Tariff

Question 17

Most spectacular example of corruption during Harding’s administration.

Answer 17

Teapot Dome Scandel

Question 18

This man was the Secretary of the Interior for Harding that was responsible for the
Teapot Dome Scandal.

Answer 18

Albert B. Fall

Question 19

Process of returning to a peace time economy.

Answer 19

demobilization

Question 20

Raids that were conducted on suspected radical groups that were thought to be
Communist.

Answer 20

The Palmer Raids

Question 21

This man that was described as a good-natured man who “looked like a president
should.

Answer 21

Warren G. Harding

Question 22

Allowed customers to buy goods by making a small down payment followed by additional monthly payments with a charged interest rate.

Answer 22

Installment Plan

Question 23

Became president after the death of President Harding.

Answer 23

Calvin Coolidge

Question 24

Henry Ford’s idea that he could create a better work environment to prevent workers
from quitting or joining a union.

Answer 24

Fordism

Question 25

This system established the maximum number of people who could enter the United
States from foreign countries.

Answer 25

quota system

Question 26

Ford created this car in 1908. It was the car of the people. It was easy to maintain, operate and affordable by all.

Answer 26

model T

Question 27

Policy in where a country pulls away involvement in foreign affairs.

Answer 27

Isolationism

Question 28

Ford’s Model T was produced in this color only

Answer 28

Black

Question 29

People who oppose any form of government.

Answer 29

Anarchists

Question 30

The type of manufacturing process created by Ford to assemble his cars.

Answer 30

Assembly Line

Question 31

This allowed workers to live miles away from their jobs and caused cities to spread in
all directions.

Answer 31

Urban Sprawl

Question 32

Became the most important tool of selling goods to people in the 1920’s.

Answer 32

Advertising

Question 33

Started as a general store and grew to having 1400 locations by 1929. It offered stock
options to it’s employees, which encouraged them to work hard.

Answer 33

J.C. Penny

Question 34

The Lockheed Company produced a single-engine plane called the ________.

Answer 34

Vega

Question 35

Inaugurated the first Transatlantic passenger flights.

Answer 35

Pan American Airways

Question 36

The airplane industry began as a mail carrying service for this company.

Answer 36

United States Post Office