Chapter 21 Flashcards
*Wisconsin senator who ran against the Democratic and Republican nominees for president in 1924
Robert M. La Follette
friends of President Harding
Ohio Gang
President Harding’s campaign slogan
return to normalcy
freedom from prosecution
immunity
dean of the Columbia Law School chosen as attorney general by President Coolidge
Harlan Fiske Stone
- Although many of President Harding’s appointments were disastrous, he did appoint several distinguished cabinet members including the secretary of commerce -
a) Andrew Mellon
b) Herbert Hoover
c) Harry Daugherty
d) John W. Davis
b) Herbert Hoover
President Coolidge’s philosophy of government was that government should interfere with business and industry as little as possible and that prosperity rested on the shoulders of -
a) business leadership
b) educational institutions
c) a strong military
d) church leaders
a) business leadership
President Harding fit in comfortably with the powerful Ohio Republican -
a) House of Representatives
b) reform issues
c) political machine
d) progressive ideas
c) political machine
President Coolidge’s simple and frugal manner contrasted not only with Harding but also with the spirit of the time - the booming, materialistic era of the -
a) Progressive Party
b) Roaring Twenties
c) Ohio Gang
d) Fourteen Points
b) roaring twenties
President Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves, causing a scandal that came to be known as the -
a) Teapot Dome scandal
b) Forbes scandal
c) Fall scandal
d) Daugherty scandal
a) Teapot Dome scandal
set requirements that workers employed by Henry Ford had to meet
Sociological Department
authorized postal officials to contract with private airplane operators to carry mail
Kelly Act
established a permanent network of radio stations to distribute daily programs
National Broadcasting Company
raised tariffs in an effort to protect American industry from foreign competition
Fordney-McCumber Act
large-scale product manufacturing usually by machinery
mass production
What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks that unskilled workers could do and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum -
a) assembly line
b) mass production
c) Flivver
d) apprentice system
a) assembly line
- To create consumers for their new products, manufacturers turned to -
a) television
b) mass production
c) advertising
d) newspaper and magazine articles
c) advertising
Henry Ford almost single-handedly changed the auto from a toy of the wealthy to an affordable necessity for the -
a) delivery industry
b) middle class
c) farmers
d) city dwellers
b) middle class
In 1926 the aviation industry received federal aid for building airports with the passage of the -
a) Air Commerce Act
b) Lindbergh Air Act
c) Airmail Act
d) Kelly Act
a) Air Commerce Act
The consumer goods industry created many new products for -
a) factories
b) the airline industry
c) businesses
d) the home
d) the home
when the United States invited representatives from eight countries to discuss disarmament
Washington Conference
*outlawed war
Kellogg-Briand Pact
a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs
isolationism
guaranteed China’s independence
Nine-Power Treaty
a pause
moratorium
The General Accounting Office was set up in 1921 to -
a) prepare a federal budget
b) track government spending
c) regulate radio frequencies
d) regulate Prohibition
b) track government spending
The Four-Power Treaty between the United States, Japan, France and Britain recognized each country’s island possessions in the -
a) Northern Hemisphere
b) Caribbean Sea
c) Atlantic
d) Pacific
d) Pacific
The chief architect of economic policy in the United States during the 1920s was -
a) Andrew Mellon
b) President Harding
c) Herbert Hoover
d) Charles Evan Hughes
a) Andrew Mellon
What crippled the German economy -
a) isolationists
b) moratoriums
c) reparation payments
d) supply-side economists
c) reparation payments
Herbert Hoover sought to provide economic stability in various industries by trying to balance government regulation with his own philosophy of -
a) welfare capitalism
b) cooperative individualism
c) supply-side economics
d) open shops
b) cooperative individualism
profit sharing, medical care benefits and pensions
welfare capitalism
form trade associations and share information with the federal government
cooperative individualism