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Chapter 22 Quiz Prep
1. In the 20th century, __________ replaced the 19th century’s ____________ -based economy.
a. car manufacturing; wagon
b. consumer goods; agriculture
c. farming; industrial
d. war material; industrial
e. wartime manufacturing; peacetime
2. Which of the following statements about the consumer culture that emerged in America during the 1920s is false?
a. Effective marketing tactics helped drive the consumer culture of the 1920s
b. Flush toilets, vacuum cleaners, electric irons, and linoleum floors were all part of the mast culture craze of the 1920s
c. The use of the airplane as a device to deliver mail did not become popular until after World War I.
d. The automobile was the most significant economic and social development of the early 20th century
e. none of the above statements are false
3. Henry Ford revolutionized the industrial process by perfecting the
a. Model T.
b. assembly line process.
c. Corliss steam engine.
d. Bessemer Process.
e. Detroit Motor Park facility.
4. What two items most led to a major change during the 1920s in how Americans spent their leisure time?
a. Electricity, advertising
b. Marketing, roads
c. Automobiles, rising incomes
d. Sport teams, boxing matches
e. Highways, airplanes
5. In addition to the nickname “the Roaring Twenties,” the 1920s have also been labeled the
a. Great Depression
b. Greatest Generation
c. Jazz Age
d. Anything Goes Age
e. Age of Welfare Capitalism
6. The increasingly bold discussions about sex that occurred during the 1920s were a result of the writings of
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. Alfred Lloyd Tennyson.
c. William H. Macy.
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
e. William Kennedy.
7. Women in the 1920s who rebelled against conventional dress, hairstyles, and what was considered to be “ladylike” were commonly called
a. hussies.
b. birds.
c. broads.
d. flappers.
e. zeldas.
8. Which of the following statements concerning African Americans in the 1920s is false?
a. Thanks to the Great Migration African Americans saw greater acceptance and political rights during the 1920s in the North.
b. The African American’s first literary and artistic movement is known as the Manhattan Movement.
c. Marcus Garvey is best associated with the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
d. In 1915, the Supreme Court struck a blow for the political rights of African Americans by abolishing the grandfather clause in Guinn v. United States
e. Marcus Garvey called W.E.B. Du Bois the “most dangerous enemy of the Negro race” because of his beliefs.
9. Intellectuals and artists who believed that the 20th century was the turning point in human development were known as
a. flappers.
b. beatniks.
c. jazzers.
d. modernists.
e. humanists.
10. Einstein’s theories in the early 20th century revolutionized science by
a. revealing that all things are static and unchanging.
b. showing that there are no absolute standards in the scientific world.
c. illustrating that an object in motion tends to stay in motion.
d. hypothesizing that energy can be stored in batteries for later use.
e. discovering gravity.
11. The popular type of art that appeared in the early 1920s was known as
a. Impressionistic.
b. Baroque.
c. Watercolors.
d. Modernism.
e. Abstract.
12. Those that came of age during the 1920s after WWI are known as
a. the Generation X.
b. the Baby Boom Generation.
c. the Lost Generation.
d. War Childs.
e. the New Generation.
13. Which of the following is not considered part of the modernism movement?
a. F. Scott Fitzgerald
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Gertrude Stein
d. James Joyce
e. Mark Twain
14. Immediately following the conclusion to World War I, the ____________ divided people in regards to immigration issues.
a. Great Depression
b. Sacco and Vanzetti trial
c. Red Scare
d. Cold War
e. Bank War
15. A person who opposed immigration in the 1920s because it would dilute what it “meant to be an American” would be subscribing to what type of viewpoint?
a. Nativism
b. Modernism
c. Neo-conservative
d. Socialist
e. Communist
16. The _______ Trial is a classic example of modernism versus fundamentalism.
a. Sacco Vanzetti
b. Plessy Ferguson
c. Scopes
d. Dred Scott
e. White Primary
17. To protect their companies from becoming union shops, owners often employed the _________ contract.
a. blacklist
b. yellow-dog
c. iron clad
d. bulletproof
e. inviable
18. Harding’s 1920 campaign for presidency revolved around what saying?
a. “Return to Normalcy”
b. “A New Deal”
c. “A Square Deal”
d. “The New Frontier”
e. “The New Freedom”
19. France and England tried to repay their World War I debts to the United States by collecting reparations from
a. Italy.
b. Russia.
c. Germany.
d. Bulgaria.
e. Turkey.
20. In an attempt to lower the risk of war, the United States was party to the ________, which limited the size of naval warships for those who signed the document.
a. Kellogg-Briand Pact
b. Five-Power Treaty
c. Nine-Power Treaty
d. Open Door Act
e. William Sonoma Act
21. As president, Calvin Coolidge pursued
a. a determined path to be an activist president.
b. reparations with Germany.
c. the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
d. a determined path to not be an activist president.
e. a strong guiding hand on American industries.