Chapter 21

Question 1

Federal Highway Act

Answer 1

1921, funds for state roads

Question 2

National highway system planned in __ and by ___

Answer 2

1923, Bureau of Public Roads

Question 3

Congress decided that broadcasting should be ___

Answer 3

private enterprise; led to more entertainment than education on radio

Question 4

1920 Puerto Rican influx

Answer 4

Labor surplus (sugar -> coffee production), citizenship granted in 1916

Question 5

Birthrates ___ from 1920 to 1930 because ___

Answer 5

Fell, birth control

Question 6

technological development

Answer 6

Gas and oil powered central heating

Question 7

Mortality rates between white and colored differed by:

Answer 7

50-100%

Question 8

Who brought pensions to US?

Answer 8

physician Isaac Max Rubinow, journalist Abraham Epstein

Question 9

Women employment in 1930s

Answer 9

Increased 10x from 1920, mostly unmarried but married increased too

Question 10

“Flapper”

Answer 10

New image of women in the 1920s era; sexual freedom

Question 11

Gay acceptance

Answer 11

Conditions (EX cheap rental in NY) improved but still subject to police raids

Question 12

Public relations experts of KKK

Answer 12

Edward Clarke and Elizabeth Tyler

Question 13

New leader of KKK

Answer 13

William J. Simmons

Question 14

Raped and killed women by infectious bites (KKK)

Answer 14

David Stephenson, weakened KKK

Question 15

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Answer 15

Convicted of murder despite weak evidence due to immigrant scare

Question 16

Why were business owners no longer dependent on immigrants to give low wages?

Answer 16

Mechanization lets them give low wages to everyone

Question 17

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Answer 17

Immigrants from x group cannot exceed 3% of x group’s current population; favored protestant and against catholic/jews

Question 18

National Origins act of 1924

Answer 18

replaced EQA, 150,000 immigrants max, 2% (asians banned)

Question 19

National Origins act of 1927

Answer 19

Revised, now quota based off origin of Americans; western hemisphere immigrants (EX mexico) not affected and become biggest immigrant group

Question 20

Scopes trial

Answer 20

John Thomas Scopes agreed to serve in test trial, William Jennings Bryan argued based on Bible, Clarence Darrow represented Scopes, showed fundamentalism to be illogical

Question 21

Religious revivalism

Answer 21

White and Blacks struggled with economic insecurity and nervous about modernism’s attack on old time religion; kinda like progressive

Question 22

1922 technological recovery

Answer 22

Aided by electric energy; alloys and appliances

Question 23

in 1923, 80 percent of automobiles were bought

Answer 23

On credit

Question 24

Havana Inter-American Conference

Answer 24

US officials tried to kill a resolution stating “no state has a right to intervene in the internal affairs of another” in response to Latin American critism that their resources were being drained for profit

Question 25

Coronado Coal Company v United MIne Workers

Answer 25

Taft rules striking union can be restraint of trade

Question 26

Maple FLoor Association v US

Answer 26

1929; Trade assos distributing anti union information not in restraint of trade

Question 27

Bailey v Drexel Furniture Company

Answer 27

1922; voided federal law restricting child labor because infringe on state affairs

Question 28

Adkins v Children's Hospital

Answer 28

1923; mm wage law overturned for freedom of contract

Question 29

Welfare capitalism

Answer 29

Pensions, events, profit sharing, used along with yellow dog and prohibition of closed shops

Question 30

Sheppard Towner Act 1921

Answer 30

Funds to create clinics as means to reduce infant mortality

Question 31

Cable Act 1923

Answer 31

Reversed law under which women had to take husband's citizenship status

Question 32

Snyder Act

Answer 32

1924; all natives citizens, hope natives will help each other assimilate

Question 33

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 33

Albert Fall bribed to give oil reserve to Mammoth Oil Company

Question 34

Calvin Coolidge's election

Answer 34

As gov of Massachusetts, used national guard to end a strike by Boston policemen

Question 35

Coolidge prosperity

Answer 35

Help big business reduce tax, build highway, did not help farmers

Question 36

Women's international League for Peach and Freedom

Answer 36

called for end to imperialism

Question 37

Women's Peace Union

Answer 37

lobbied for amendment to require a national referendum on war declaration

Question 38

5 power treaty

Answer 38

US, British, Japanese, French, Italian Naval limits (Chris Evan Hughes)

Question 39

9 power treaty

Answer 39

Reaffirming Open Door

Question 40

4 power treaty

Answer 40

US, Britain, France, Japan respect each others' pacific posessions

Question 41

Locrano pact 1925

Answer 41

Reduce tensions between Germany and France

Question 42

Kellogg Briand Pact 1928

Answer 42

62 nations condemned war

Question 43

UNIA

Answer 43

Marcus Gravey who believed blacks should separate; exclusively black and low class; fell after deportation from selling a stock based on ship he did not own and because Du Bois saw him as extreme (undermine)

Question 44

Sin fronteras

Answer 44

"without borders"; mexican immigrant way of life

Question 45

Puerto Rican influx because

Answer 45

Switch from growing sugar to coffee

Question 46

Charles A. Lindbergh

Answer 46

Flew a plane from New york to Paris; technology improvement and hero culture

Question 47

Hoovers associationalism

Answer 47

Use commerce department a center of promotion of business

Question 48

Al Smith

Answer 48

Ran against Hoover; catholic background drew appeal from women but not southern; prohibition stressed did not build coalition of farmers and dwellers; gained appeal in cities and strengthened democrats

Question 49

Black Thursday

Answer 49

Depression (black tuesday) resulted from stock holders pulling out in panic

Question 50

Demand leveling off

Answer 50

Lack of demand for construction and appliances; underconsumption

Question 51

Stock Market instability

Answer 51

Corporations bought stocks using other stocks

Question 52

European troubles

Answer 52

American depression -> German no get loan -> Europeans don't get repercussions -> Allies don't pay war debts