STUDY GUIDE
1920’s
Chapters 15
Pages 482-488
The executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920’s demonstrated the
a)Federal governments war on crime
b)The persistence of lynchings
c)Corruption of political machines
d)Increase in nativism
Why was national attention drawn to William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial of 1925?
e)the case represented a conflict between modern science and religion
f)the case reversed a previous Supreme Court decision on free speech
g)the case upheld the right of veterans to protest in Washington D. C.
h)the case revealed the extent of prejudice against immigrants
Prohibition, established by the Eighteenth Amendment, stated that
i)only imported alcoholic beverages could be sold
j)the manufacture and sale of U.S. alcoholic beverages was banned
k)Americans must be 18 years old to purchase alcohol
l)Alcoholic beverages could be sold only in government run stores
What was an important result of Prohibition during the 1920s?
m)Respect for the law decreased
n)Women’s Suffrage was restricted
o)Racial prejudice increased
p)Religious tolerance grew
During the 1920’s, Congress passed a series of immigration laws that were primarily designed to
- increase immigration from Asia
- expand the workforce for the growing economy
- limit immigration from Southern and Easter Europe
- prohibit immigration from Latin America
1. What is an anarchist?
2. Why did so many people believe that the Sacco and Vanzetti trial was an example of prejudice against foreigners?
3. How was the “new” KKK different from the old one?
4. What was the National Origins Act and what effect did it have on immigration?
5. Who was exempted from the National Origins Act?
6. What was the purpose of the Immigration Acts?
7. What is eugenics?
8. Were the “new” women of the 1920’s able to achieve complete equality with men in their professions?
9. What was a flapper?
10. Who was Margaret Mead?
11. What is fundamentalism?
12. Who was Billy Sunday?
13. What was the Scopes Trial? Who represented evolution and who represented creationism?
14. Even though Scopes was convicted, why did modernists consider it a victory?
15. Who was Al Capone?
16. What was the Volstead Act?
17. What did the 18th Amendment do?
18. What was the primary result of Prohibition?
19. What did the 19th Amendment do?
20. What did the 21st Amendment do?
Pages 492 – 495
The golden age of Hollywood began in 1927 with the release of
a. / the first motion picture.b. / the first feature-length film.
c. / the first animated film.
d. / the first motion picture with sound.
The first feature length film to feature “talkie” sound was:
A)The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson
B)The Son of the Sheik with Rudolph Valentino
C)Grand Hotel with Greta Garbo
D)City Lights with Charlie Chaplin
E)The Westerner with Marlene Dietrich
1. Who was Charles Lindbergh?
2. What caused baseball and boxing to become so popular in the 20’s?
3. Who was: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Red Grange
4. What was the only completely new form of communicatiio that became popular in the 20’s?
5. What is mass media?
Pages 498-501
Which development in the 1920s was inconsistent with much of the racial and ethnic intolerance of the decade?
- Red Scare
- Revival of the KKK
- Harlem Renaissance
- Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
1. What was the Harlem Renaissance?
2. What was the Great Migration and what caused it?
3. Who was Langston Hughes?
4. What is jazz?
5. Who was: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith
6. What political party did most African Americans belong to?
7. Who was Oscar DePriest?
8. What is Black Nationalism?
9. Who was Marcus Garvey?
CHAPTER 16
Pages 510 – 513
As president, Harding G. Harding had all the following weaknesses except?
a) his inability to grasp the responsibilities of the office
b) his personal fondness for illegal alcohol, women and gambling
c) his personal involvement in corruption in government
d) his loyalty to party hacks that got him the presidency
e) his lack of self confidence in dealing with the job of president
1. What was the Ohio Gang?
- What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
- How did Calvin Coolidge see his responsibilities as president? What kind of person was he?
Pages 514 – 520
1. What role did technology play in the economic boom of the 20’s?
2. What is an assembly line?
3. What was Henry Ford’s contribution to the development of the automobile?
4. What is welfare capitalism?
Pages 521 – 524
The Republican Administrations of the 1920’s pursued the economic policy of
a) advocating that manufacterers should be able to fix prices
b) substantially reducing taxes
c) increasing federal expenditures
d) encouraging companies to compete rather than cooperate
e) creating policies that helped the poor
1.What is supply side economics?
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