Period 7: Ch. 30-31 Take Home Test
Directions: Make sure you place all answers on yourscantron. Due Date: Monday 2/29
Part 1 – Matching
1.American aviator whose solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927 showed the possibilities of the airplane and made him an international hero.
2.Innovator who created the first mass-produced automobile using the assembly line to reduce cost.
3.Proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, inspiring the Nation of Islam and the Rastafarian movements.
4.Attorney General of the United States from 1919-1921 who raided immigrant homes in search of communists during the first “Red Scare.”
5.Teacher who taught evolution to his Tennessee Biology class. The trial ignited a national debate over traditionalism vs. modernism.
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6. The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
[A] the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.
[B] the strict enforcement of prohibition laws.
[C] the public’s association of labor violence with its fear of revolution.
[D] the threat caused by the Communist Revolution in Russia.
7. Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of
[A] increased migration of blacks to the North.
[B] the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans.
[C] a desire to rid the country of the quota system.
[D] the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.
8. The Immigration Act of 1924 was formulated to impose immigration quotas based on
[A] nationality.
[B] religious beliefs.
[C] literacy.
[D] economic skills.
9. The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of
[A] prayer in public schools.
[B] progressive education.
[C] teaching evolution in public schools.
[D] teachers’ membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
10. All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except
[A] government stimulation of the economy.
[B] increased productivity of workers.
[C]perfection of assembly-line production.
[D] advertising and credit buying.
11. The prosperity that developed in the 1920s helped
[A] to accumulate a cloud of debt.
[B] to reduce buying on credit.
[C] close the gap between the rich and poor.
[D] labor unions to gain strength.
12. Henry Ford’s contribution to the automobile industry was
[A] installment credit of buying cars
[B] an enormous variety of automobile models with varied colors and style.
[C] relatively cheap automobiles.
[D] design changes that improved speed.
13. The first “talkie” motion picture was
[A] The Great Train Robbery
[B] The Birth of a Nation
[C] Gone With the Wind
[D] The Jazz Singer
14. Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
[A] abortion rights.
[B] woman suffrage.
[C] birth control.
[D] free love.
15. Jazz music was developed by
[A] American blacks.
[B] American teenagers.
[C] Latinos.
[D] Caribbean immigrants.
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16. Because the United States raised its tariffs in the 1920s,
[A] European nations raised their tariffs.
[B] American foreign trade declined.
[C] international economic distress deepened.
[D] all of the above.
17. The Teapot Dome scandal under President Harding involved the mishandling of
[A] naval oil reserves.
[B] the budget for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
[C] European war-debt payment.
[D]the sale of presidential pardons.
18. During Coolidge’s presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of
[A] farmers and wage earners.
[B] the business community.
[C] progressive reformers.
[D] racial and ethnic minorities.
19. One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was
[A] overproduction.
[B] the inability to purchase modern farm equipment.
[C] the prosecution of cooperatives under antitrust laws.
[D] drought and insects like the boll weevil.
20. America’s major foreign policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which
[A] ended the “big-stick” policy of armed intervention in Central America and the Caribbean.
[B] tried to solve the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments.
[C] aimed to prevent German re-armament.
[D] condemned Japanese aggression in Manchuria.
21. As a result of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930,
[A] American industry grew more secure.
[B] duties on agricultural products decreased.
[C] the worldwide depression deepened.
[D] American economic isolationism ended.
22. President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following except
[A] providing direct aid to the people.
[B] directly assisting businesses and banks.
[C] keeping faith in the efficiency of the industrial system.
[D] continuing to rely on the American tradition of rugged individualism.
23. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to
[A] outlaw “yellow dog” (antiunion) contracts.
[B] make loans to businesses, banks, and state and local governments.
[C] provide money for construction of dams on the Tennessee River.
[D] lend money for federal public works projects.
24. The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand
[A] the removal of American troops from Nicaragua.
[B] passage of legislation introducing a lower tariff.
[C] immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to World War I veterans.
[D] housing and health care assistance for veterans.
The following questions refer to the cartoon below.
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“The Only Way to Handle It”, 1921
25.What had contributed most directly to the growth of immigration in the 1920s?
A) / The “Great Migration” of World War IB) / The protection of civil liberties in the U.S. Constitution
C) / Anti-war sentiments in the United States
D) / The growth of economic opportunities in the United States
26.The influx of immigrants in the early 20th century
A) / came mostly from southern and eastern Europe.B) / helped to strengthen the nation’s labor unions.
C) / strengthened the Democratic coalition.
D) / tended to pursue agricultural jobs on the frontier .
27.The attitude expressed in the cartoon would characterize American immigration policy until
A) / the New Deal.B) / the end of World War II.
C) / the Great Society.
D) / the end of the Cold War.
28.Those who agreed with the cartoonist’s perspective would have been most concerned by the
A) / low wages for which so many of the immigrants were willing to work.B) / cultural differences between the new immigrants and most native-born Americans.
C) / anti-union character of most of the new immigrants.
D) / segregation of immigrants into ethnic communities.
The following questions refer to the advertisement below.
29. Which of the following trends of the 1920s is most clearly portrayed in this advertisement?
(A) The expansion of auto dealers throughout the country
(B) The use of extended payment plans to purchase consumer goods
(C) The emergence of General Motors as the largest company
(D) The growth of middle-class incomes
30. Many historians criticize the economy that developed during the 1920s. Which of the following statements best supports that point of view?
(A) Consumerism weakened the moral character of the nation
(B) The growth of the auto industry badly hurt the railroads
(C) Advertising was based on gaining status and popularity
(D) The boom was based on speculation and borrowed money
31. Which of the following groups faced the most difficult economic conditions during the 1920s?
(A) Non-unionized workers in older industries
(B) Assembly line workers in factories
(C) Farmers and many rural areas
(D) Businesses that did not accept credit cards
The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"The farmers are being pauperized by the poverty of industrial populations and the industrial populations are being pauperized by the poverty of the farmers. Neither has the money to buy the product of the other, hence we have overproduction and under consumption at the same time and in the same country.
"I have not come here to stir you in a recital of the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens. However, unless something is done for them and done soon, you will have a revolution on hand....
"There is a feeling among the masses that something is radically wrong .... they say that this government is a conspiracy against the common people to enrich the already rich."
—Oscar Ameringer, editor of the Oklahoma Daily Leaden testimony to the House Committee on Labor, February, 1932
32. Which of the following most directly supports the author's analysis?
(A) Gross national product fell from $104 billion in 1929 to $56 billion in 1932
(B) Bank assets fell from $72 billion in 1929 to $51 billion in 1932
(C) Farm income fell from $11.4 billion in 1929 to $6.3 billion in 1932
(D) Government spending rose from $3.2 billion in 1929 to $4.6 billion in 1932
33. Which of the following was most directly related to the phrase in the testimony "the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens"?
(A) Twenty percent of the banks were closed
(B) The Dawes Plan was suspended
(C) The Federal Farm Board was created
(D) Twenty-five percent of the workforce was unemployed
34. Which of the following would most likely support a belief that the government was "against the common people"?
(A) Creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
(B) Treatment of the Bonus Marchers
(C) Efforts to stabilize farm prices
(D) Passage of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff