Ch. 20 From Business Culture To Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920-1932 Pt. 3 Flashcards
True or False: Over 100 million records were sold each year during the 1920s.
True
True or False: During the 1920s, as sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd found in Middletown, elections were lively centers of public attention, much as they had been in the nineteenth century.
False
True or False: American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.
True
Nearly 1 million _______ ________ migrated from the American South during the 1920s.
African Americans
Nearly 1 ______ African Americans migrated from the American _____ during the 1920s.
million
South
True or False: During the 1920s, the U.S. government showed little interest in world affairs.
False
True or False: A consumer culture in which the purchase of consumer goods (even if this meant going into debt) came increasingly to replace thrift and self-denial, which had earlier characterized notions of good character.
True
True or False: The 1920s—prior to October 1929—saw a sharp decline in the American economy.
False
By _____, a quarter of the U.S. labor force could not find work.
1932
By 1932, a _______ of the U.S. labor force could not find _____.
quarter
work
Oliver Wendell Holmes and _____ __ _______ were proponents of civil liberties.
Louis D. Brandeis
______ _______ ______ and Louis D. Brandeis were proponents of civil liberties.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
True or False: Women’s freedom in the 1920s was characterized by unapologetic use of birth-control methods such as the diaphragm.
True
In 1917, 1921, and again in 1924, _______ _________ was increasingly curtailed by federal law.
European immigration
In 1917, 1921, and again in 1924, European immigration was increasingly curtailed by ______ ____.
federal law
In _____, _____, and again in _____, European immigration was increasingly curtailed by federal law.
1917
1921
1924
True or False: By 1929, three-quarters of American households had washing machines.
False
___ _____, the Catholic governor of New York, ran as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1928, but lost the election.
Al Smith
Al Smith, the _______ governor of ____ _____, ran as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1928, but lost the election.
Catholic
New York
Al Smith, the Catholic governor of New York, ran as the _________ Party’s presidential nominee in _____, but lost the election.
Democratic
1928
In 1925, _____ _______, a public school teacher in Tennessee, was convicted of violating the state’s law against the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
John Scopes
In 1925, John Scopes, a public school teacher in __________, was convicted of violating the state’s law against the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of ________.
Tennessee
evolution
True or False: According to the 1920s sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd, Americans had become more interested in leisure activities and material comforts than in public issues.
True
