Roaring 20s, 1919-1929

Question 1

What party dominated the 1920s?

Answer 1

Republicans (Conservative Policies)

Question 2

How was the Progressive Era completely different from the Roaring 20s?

Answer 2

The government was extremely active and involved during the Progressive Era, while the Republicans in the 1920s believed in limited government regulation and pro-business policies.

Question 3

Who became the 29th president of the U.S. and would eventually die in office in 1923?

Answer 3

Pres. Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)

Question 4

In 1922, this scandal involved Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall who sold Navy oil reserves to private industry. This scandal did not involve President Harding, but it did make him look bad.

Answer 4

Teapot Dome Scandal (1922)

Question 5

In 1923, Pres. Warren G. Harding dies making who the 30th president of the U.S.?

Answer 5

Pres. Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929)

Question 6

Pres. Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” but what famous quote is he remembered for that exemplified the 1920s?

Answer 6

“The business of America is business”

Question 7

Conservative policies of the 1920s focused on which ideas?

Answer 7

Limited government and lassies-faire economics

Question 8

What is the term given to Frederick W. Taylor’s scientific management of manufacturing that improved methods of mass production.

Answer 8

Taylorism

Question 9

Henry Ford perfected a system of manufacturing automobiles (Model T) by using what production technique?

Answer 9

Assembly Line

Question 10

What two new energy technologies became widespread during the 1920s?

Answer 10

Oil and Electricity

Question 11

How did Republican presidents deal with big businesses during the 1920s?

Answer 11

Offered corporate tax cuts and did nothing to enforce antitrust laws

Question 12

What problems did farmers face during the 1920s?

Answer 12

Farmers were burdened with debt as prices fell from overproduction and increased competition from Europe

Question 13

What happened with union membership during the 1920s?

Answer 13

Union membership declined, strikes failed, and courts rejected labor laws protecting worker’s rights

Question 14

For the first time in American history, where did more than half of Americans live in the 1920s?

Answer 14

Urban areas (cities)

Question 15

What new age began during the 1920s when young people expressed their rebellion against their elder’s culture by dancing to this type of music?

Answer 15

The Jazz Age

Question 16

A consumer culture (consumerism) developed in the 1920s because of what widespread luxury in American’s homes?

Answer 16

Electricity to purchase new appliances

Question 17

Consumerism in the 1920s was fueled by what two techniques to get Americans to buy goods?

Answer 17

Advertising & Credit

Question 18

What two forms of entertainment became commonplace in the 1920s?

Answer 18

Radio & Movies

Question 19

Describe the role of women during the 1920s.

Answer 19

1. Women voted like their husbands.
2. Expected to be homemakers and mothers.
3. Recieved lower wages than men.

Question 20

These young women of the 1920s revolted against sexual taboos by having premarital sex, cutting their hair short, shortening their dresses, dancing, smoking, and driving cars.

Answer 20

Flappers

Question 21

This woman of the 1920s promoted birth control.

Answer 21

Margaret Sanger

Question 22

Alice Paul pushed for what amendment that would give men and women equal rights?

Answer 22

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 23

During the 1920s there was a division among Protestants. These Protestants took a historical and critical view of certain passages from the Bible. They believed in Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Answer 23

Modernists

Question 24

During the 1920s there was a division among Protestants. These Protestants believed every word in the Bible is literally true. They believe in creationism, which is the belief that God created the universe in seven days. Rejected evolution.

Answer 24

Fundamentalism

Question 25

Name two fundamentalist revivalists that preached over the radio.

Answer 25

Billy Sunday & Aimee McPherson

Question 26

This is the term given to the writers who ridiculed religion as hypocritical, expressed disillusionment with materialism and business-oreiented culture after World War I.

Answer 26

“Lost Generation”

Question 27

Gertrude Stein called certain disillusioned writers the “Lost Generation.” Name some of these writers.

Answer 27

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Earnet Hemingway
3. Sinclair Lewis
4. Ezra Pound
5. T.S. Eliot

Question 28

This was the name given to the largest African American community in New York, where famous actors, artists, musicians, and writers became well known.

Answer 28

Harlem Renaissance

Question 29

This African American leader of the 1920s started the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) and promoted racial pride and black separatism.

Answer 29

Marcus Garvey

Question 30

In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey inspired black pride and nationalism, however, which one of his ideas ultimately failed?

Answer 30

Back-to-Africa Movement

Question 31

List some cultures in conflict during the 1920s?

Answer 31

1. Young & Old.
2. Urban modernists & Rural fundamentalists
3. Prohbitionists & Anti-prohibitionists
4. Nativists & Foreign-born

Question 32

Which famous court case of the 1920s centered on evolution and fundamentalism, in which William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow would do battle.

Answer 32

Scopes Trial (Science v. Religion)

Question 33

In 1919, the Volstead Act (prohibition) was passed. What amendment was this?

Answer 33

18th Amendment

Question 34

After the Great War, immigration greatly increased. New immigrants came from Eastern and Southern Europe and were predominately Catholics and Jews. Which group was anti-immigrant and saw immigrants as radicals.

Answer 34

Nativists (Nativism)

Question 35

This act in the 1920s severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Answer 35

National Origins Act (Quota Laws)

Question 36

This famous court case of the 1920s is when two Italian immigrants were executed because they were convicted of robbery and murder. Many felt that they were executed because they were poor Italian anarchists.

Answer 36

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

Question 37

This is the most extreme nativist group. This white supremacy group terrorized and intimidated anyone they viewed as “un-American.” Birth of a Nation was a movie that glorified this group.

Answer 37

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Question 38

In 1921, this conference centered on talks about naval disarmament.

Answer 38

Washington Conference (1921)

Question 39

American foreign policy during the 1920s is falsely seen as isolationist. What were some treaties that prove the U.S. was not completely isolationist during the 1920s.

Answer 39

1. Five-Power Treaty, same ratios of navies.
2. Four-Power Treaty, respect territories.
3. Nine-Power Treaty, respect Open Door policy.

Question 40

In 1928, this pact was signed by almost all nations of the world in which they renounced the aggressive use of force.

Answer 40

Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928)