The New Era, 1920s

Question 0

Teapot Dome Scandal

Answer 0

Federal oil reserves sold to private businesses

Question 1

President Warren G. Harding

Answer 1

1) Republican
2) “Return to normalcy”
3) Pro-business and conservative values
4) Progressive era was over
5) Americans moving to the cities

Question 2

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 2

Believed in limited government

Question 3

Herbert Hoover

Answer 3

1) Business prosperity from 1922-1928

2) Hated for bailing out business and Bonus army incident

Question 4

Causes of Business Prosperity

Answer 4

1) Increased production/productivity
2) Scientific Management (Taylorism)
3) Henry Ford: Assembly line
4) Increased worker productivity/industrial output

Question 5

Welfare Capitalism

Answer 5

Stop unionization

Question 6

Government Policy

Answer 6

High tariffs affected world trade

Question 7

Labor Problems

Answer 7

Membership in unions declined in the 1920s

Question 8

Entertainment

Answer 8

Radio (mass communication)

Question 9

The Literature of Alienation

Answer 9

Theodore Dreiser, “An American Tragedy”

Question 10

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 10

1) Black racial pride and cultural identity

2) Jazz age musicians: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, “Jelly Roll” Morton

Question 11

Marcus Garvey

Answer 11

1) Back to Africa Movement
2) Black Star Line Ship: Fraud
3) Black pride and nationalism/black separatism

Question 12

Fundamentalism and Scope Trial

Answer 12

Clarence Darrow defended Scope, William Jennings Bryan prosecuted

Question 13

Prohibition

Answer 13

18th Amendment

1) Volstead Act of 1919
2) Drinking became socially acceptable

Question 14

Quota System

Answer 14

National Origin Act: severely limited immigration by setting quotas

Question 15

Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 15

Fear of foreigners and communism

Question 16

Fear of Radicals

Answer 16

Palmer Raids

Question 17

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 17

Extreme nativism

Question 18

Washington Conference

Answer 18

Five Power Treaty: limit navy

Question 19

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 19

1) Almost all nations of the world signed it

2) Renounced the aggressive use of force to achieve national ends

Question 20

Tariffs

Answer 20

1) Fordney-McCumber Tariff
2) Europeans responded by imposing tariffs on American imports
3) Weakened world’s economy

Question 21

Dawes Plan

Answer 21

1) Lend Germany huge amount of money

2) Pay reparations to Britain and France