Roaring Twenties

Question 1

What prospered and expanded?

Answer 1

Corporates

Question 2

What new areas did business venture into?

Answer 2

Autos, chemicals, radio and movies, (tech)

Question 3

What increased

Answer 3

Output and profit

Question 4

What opportunities and wages increased?

Answer 4

Employment opportunities and wages increased

Question 5

What was the economy fueled by?

Answer 5

Public confidence (post WWI)

Question 6

What were sick industries?

Answer 6

Coal, textile, railroads, and agriculture

Question 7

What did not rise with production?

Answer 7

Consumer purchasing power (inflation)

Question 8

What led to over speculation in real estate and stocks?

Answer 8

“Get rich quick”

Question 9

Labor strife

Answer 9

corporations

Question 10

Boston Police Strike (1919)

Answer 10

rioting, looting, violence

Question 11

What did the number of factory workers increase to?

Answer 11

7 million

Question 12

Racial Strife

Answer 12

Friction in the cities

Question 13

Who were angered by discrimination?

Answer 13

African Americans

Question 14

Who feared competition for jobs?

Answer 14

White-Americans

Question 15

How many race riots were there in 1919?

Answer 15

25

Question 16

What did the Chicago riot start?

Answer 16

Starts over altercation at public beach -> six days of violence

Question 17

What is Red Scare?

Answer 17

Fear of Communism

Question 18

What were bomb scares tied to?

Answer 18

Radical Organizations

Question 19

What were some radical organizations?

Answer 19

Anarchists, galleanists, and socialists

Question 20

Who were the targets for the bomb scares?

Answer 20

Politicians, wealthy, powerful, and opponents of radicals

Question 21

Who went after radicals?

Answer 21

Attorney general

Question 22

Red Scare

Answer 22

Russian revolution (Bolshevik takeover)

Question 23

When was the U.S. Communist party formed?

Answer 23

After the bloody revolution follows

Question 24

Who supported African American immigrants, labor unions?

Answer 24

Communist party

Question 25

A. Mitchel Palmer

Answer 25

Attorney general who theorized that the strife was caused by the Bolsheviks

Question 26

Who begins to harass communists?

Answer 26

A. Mitchel Palmer

Question 27

Fear of Foreigners

Answer 27

Nativism

Question 28

Who believes they are superior to new immigrants

Answer 28

WASP (upper class, White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant)

Question 29

What set limits on immigrants

Answer 29

Immigrations Quotas (1921)

Question 30

What reduced quotas each year?

Answer 30

National Origins Act (1924)

Question 31

When was the revival of the Klu Klux Klan?

Answer 31

1915

Question 32

What was the silent movie by D.W. Griffiths?

Answer 32

"Birth of a Nation"

Question 33

Who were Italian Anarchists?

Answer 33

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 34

What were Sacco and Vanzetti mistrusted for?

Answer 34

Beliefs/ethnicity

Question 35

What were Sacco and Vanzetti suspected for?

Answer 35

The bombings of 1919

Question 36

Who gained the right to vote?

Answer 36

Women (19th amendment)

Question 37

What was created when taken out of work place?

Answer 37

Prolonged adolescence

Question 38

What became mandatory?

Answer 38

High school education

Question 39

What increased in education?

Answer 39

College enrollment

Question 40

Who was the intellectual voice of the Black Community?

Answer 40

W.E.B DuBois

Question 41

Fifty Years and Other Poems

Answer 41

James Weldon Johnson

Question 42

White Shadows

Answer 42

Claude McKay

Question 43

Who wrote poetry to describe Black tragedies?

Answer 43

Langston Hughes

Question 44

Where was the Scopes Monkey Trial?

Answer 44

Dayton, Tennessee

Question 45

Who taught Darwinism?

Answer 45

John Scopes

Question 46

Who opposed Darwinism?

Answer 46

William Jennings Bryan

Question 47

Who was America's greatest defense attorney?

Answer 47

Clarence Darrow

Question 48

Industry creates boom in?

Answer 48

Rubber (tires), steel, glass

Question 49

Industry creates what kind of new businesses?

Answer 49

Motels, roadside restaurants (HoJo's), and gas stations

Question 50

Warren Harding got his start as the owner of a?

Answer 50

Weekly newspaper in Ohio

Question 51

Before becoming President, Harding served as a?

Answer 51

Lieutenant governor and Senator

Question 52

The group of corrupt "friends" that Harding used as advisors while President were nicknamed the?

Answer 52

Ohio gang

Question 53

The treaty that called for the nations with the most powerful naval forces to limit the sized of their nativities?

Answer 53

Five Power Treaty

Question 54

The treaty that called for an "Open Door" in China was?

Answer 54

Nine Power Treaty

Question 55

The treaty that states that Britain, France the U.S. and Japan would respect the other's holding in the Pacific was the?

Answer 55

Four Power Treaty

Question 56

These three treaties were negotiated at the?

Answer 56

Washington Conference

Question 57

Harding's contribution to the financial management of the nation was the?

Answer 57

Budget and accounting act

Question 58

The protectionist tariff that led to retaliation from Europe was the?

Answer 58

Fordney-McCumber tariff

Question 59

The demand by World War One veterans for extra money based on their service during the war?

Answer 59

The bonus bill

Question 60

Harding's Attorney General who was accused of wrongdoing while in office?

Answer 60

Harry Daughtery

Question 61

Harding's Secretary of the Interior?

Answer 61

Albert Fall

Question 62

Albert Fall was involved in which famous scandal?

Answer 62

Attempted theft of the national oil reserves

Question 63

How did Coolidge become President?

Answer 63

After Harding was assassinated

Question 64

What was Coolidge's nickname?

Answer 64

Silent Cal

Question 65

Who was the candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1924?

Answer 65

John W. Davis

Question 66

What was Coolidge's campaign slogan in the election of 1924?

Answer 66

Keep Cool with Coolidge

Question 67

What was Coolidge's most famous quote regarding business? How does this quote reflect his feelings towards big business?

Answer 67

"The business of America is business" he believed not to interfere with the economy

Question 68

Why did Robert Lafollette leave the Republican Party and run as a progressive candidate in 1924?

Answer 68

He was protesting the treatment of farmers

Question 69

How did Coolidge view the problems of the farmers?

Answer 69

He said farmers were always poor and nothing could be done to help them

Question 70

Who was the Candidate for the Democrats in the election of 1928?

Answer 70

Al Smith

Question 71

What was Al Smith's claim to fame?

Answer 71

He was the first Roman Catholic to run for President

Question 72

Who was the candidate for the Republicans in the election of 1928?

Answer 72

Herbert Hoover (he headed the food administration)

Question 73

What was Hoover's position in the Harding and Coolidge administrations?

Answer 73

Secretary of Commerce

Question 74

List four products that became readily available due to mass production in the twenties

Answer 74

Phonograph- Vinal Record Player Refrigerator Automobile Radio

Question 75

What advances were made in the Health during the 1920's?

Answer 75

Childhood diseases (measles, typhoid fever) brought under control, improvements in hygiene

Question 76

What advances were made in education during the 1920's?

Answer 76

Free, compulsory, secondary education

Question 77

List four aspects of this decade that led to it being labeled the "Jazz Age"

Answer 77

Music Movies Flappers Speakeasies

Question 78

Baseball

Answer 78

Babe Ruth

Question 79

Boxing

Answer 79

Jack Dempsy/ Gene Tunney

Question 80

Golf

Answer 80

Bobby Jones

Question 81

Who was the biggest hero of the 1920's

Answer 81

Charles Lindbergh

Question 82

What did Charles Lindbergh Accomplish?

Answer 82

First solo, non-stop transatlantic airplane flight

Question 83

Newspaper man who referred to the American people as the "booboisie"

Answer 83

H.L. Mencken (Editor for Baltimore Sun)

Question 84

Why were the writers of the 1920's "disillusioned" with society?

Answer 84

World War I, post-war world, failure of 14 points

Question 85

List 5 popular writers of the 1920's who belonged to this "disillusioned" school of writing

Answer 85

Sinclair Lewis Sherwood Anderson Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald