The Jazz AGe

Question 1

Large-scale manufacturing done with machinery

Answer 1

mass production

Question 2

installed the first moving assembly line

Answer 2

Henry Ford

Question 3

how sensitive product demand is to price

Answer 3

elasticity

Question 4

surfaces attached to wings that could be tilted to steer a plane

Answer 4

ailerons

Question 5

invented ailerons

Answer 5

Glen Curtiss

Question 6

introduced the world’s first airmail service

Answer 6

the postmaster general

Question 7

authorized postal officials to hire private airplane operator to carry mail

Answer 7

Kelly Act

Question 8

provided federal aid to build airports

Answer 8

air commerce act of 1926

Question 9

invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via long-range radio

Answer 9

Edwin Armstrong

Question 10

the first radio broadcast by Westinghouse company in 1920

Answer 10

news of Harding’s landslide election victory

Question 11

the radio station’s call letters

Answer 11

KDKA

Question 12

NBC

Answer 12

national broadcasting company

Question 13

CBS

Answer 13

columbian broadcasting system

Question 14

reflected the prejudices and fears of this era

Answer 14

The Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Question 15

people who oppose all forms of government

Answer 15

anarchists

Question 16

founded the new KKK in Atlanta, GA in 1915

Answer 16

William J. Simmons

Question 17

restricted annual admission to the US by ethnic group

Answer 17

Emergency Quota Act

Question 18

targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants and other groups of being “Un-American”

Answer 18

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Question 19

75% of radios and 60% of automobiles had been purchased on the…

Answer 19

installment plan

Question 20

successfully competed with Ford

Answer 20

General Motors and Chrysler

Question 21

“labor savers” were introduced, such as…

Answer 21

the electric iron, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and refrigerators