Unit 15

Question 0

President from 1923 to 1929

Answer 0

Calvin Coolidge

Question 1

President from 1921 to 1923

Answer 1

Warren G. Harding

Question 2

President from 1929 to 1933

Answer 2

Herbert Hoover

Question 3

Scandal under Harding in which sec of interior fall takes bribes for granting oil leases on government land in Wyoming

Answer 3

Teapot dome

Question 4

Catholic anti-prohibition Democrat who lost to Coolidge in 1928, won city vote which showed growing cultural divide between American cities and rural areas

Answer 4

Al Smith

Question 5

Alternative name for assembly-line production

Answer 5

Fordism

Question 6

Term for company that offers jobs to non-union members

Answer 6

Open shop

Question 7

Term that refers to when companies give improved benefits and higher wages so people would not join unions

Answer 7

Welfare capitalism

Question 8

New music form of 1920s derived from African-American rhythms and ragtime

Answer 8

Jazz

Question 9

Idea that consumer goods dominate the market and what we consume defines who we are

Answer 9

Consumerism

Question 10

Tactic by which car companies purposely change a cars design to stimulate more sales

Answer 10

Planned obsolescence

Question 11

Buying a product and paying for it over the course of time also known as buying on credit

Answer 11

Installment plans

Question 12

Women who challenged traditional gender roles in the 1920s by being more sexually promiscuous

Answer 12

Flappers

Question 13

Feminist who promoted birth control

Answer 13

Margaret Sanger

Question 14

Religious movement of the 1920s that took historical and critical view of Bible said Bible was not to be taken literally; urban

Answer 14

Liberal Protestantism

Question 15

Musical literary artistic rebirth amongst African-Americans in 1920s

Answer 15

Harlem Renaissance

Question 16

African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 16

Langston Hughes

Question 17

African-American writer of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 18

Most famous jazz performers of the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 18

Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong

Question 19

Black nationalist to let the “back to Africa” movement

Answer 19

Marcus Garvey

Question 20

Outlawed manufacture, sale, distribution of alcohol

Answer 20

18th amendment

Question 21

Federal law that enforced 18th amendment

Answer 21

Volstead act

Question 22

Conservative religious movement that took a literal view of the Bible; rural

Answer 22

Fundamentalism

Question 23

Group that hated blacks, Catholics, Jews, foreigners, Communists; refounded at Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915

Answer 23

Ku Klux Klan

Question 24

Law that limited immigration to 2% of # of foreigners from foreign nation counted in census of 1890

Answer 24

Immigration quota of 1924

Question 25

Italian immigrants whose execution was seen by some as example of nativism

Answer 25

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 26

Time period in which alcohol was illegal in the US 1919 to 1933

Answer 26

Prohibition

Question 27

Aviator who flew nonstop from New York to Paris in 1927

Answer 27

Charles Lindbergh

Question 28

Trial that represented clash between fundamentalists and liberals in 1920s issue was evolution

Answer 28

Scopes trial

Question 29

Liberal lawyer in scoped trial; defender Scoped

Answer 29

Clarence Darrow

Question 30

Fundamentalist lawyer during Scopes trial; prosecuted Scopes

Answer 30

William Jennings Bryan

Question 31

Term for those whose literature expressed disillusionment with earlier time/values and with materialism/consumerism of the 1920s

Answer 31

"Lost generation"

Question 32

Naval conference of 1921 that set limits on world naval sizes

Answer 32

Washington conference

Question 33

Renounced war as means to achieve national goals

Answer 33

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 34

Payment plan set up by American banker so that Germany could pay off World War I war debts to allied nations

Answer 34

Dawes plan

Question 35

Political philosophy that dominated the 1920s believed in limited government involvement in economy and favored big business over labor

Answer 35

Conservatism