Quiz 6 Study Guide for A or 90% and higher.

For Quiz 6 for A or 90% and higher.

During the 1920s, American multinational corporations

d. extended their reach throughout the world

Which of the following statements accurately describes the state of consumer goods in the 1920s?

b. Advertising created a desire among buyers to purchase new goods

The Sacco-Vanzetti case

d. showed how the Red Scare undermined basic American freedoms.

The 1920s political scene was dominated by

e. Conservatism

The automobile

e. was the backbone of economic growth

American farmers in the 1920s

d. increasingly migrated out of rural areas

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs

a. helped create a “new society.”

For the feminist woman in the 1920s, personal freedom meant

d. the right to choose her lifestyle

Why did cigarettes become known as “torches of freedom” during the 1920s?

a. Women began to smoke cigarettes as an expression of personal freedom

In the 1920s, employers embraced the American Plan because

a. it promoted the creation of a workplace free of government and union regulations

What did Alice Paul propose regarding women’s rights?

b. That all gender-based legal distinctions should be eliminated. 

The prevailing jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court in the 1920s can best be described as

a. laissez

The Teapot Dome scandal involved

d. bribes for the secretary of the interior in exchange for leases of government oil reserves

American foreign policy during the 1920s

a. reflected the close ties between government and business

What dictator gained power due to help from the U.S. Marines in the 1920s and 1930s?

d. Somoza in Nicaragua

In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court

b. ruled that bans on dangerous speech were constitutional

Which of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s is true?

c. Prohibition led to widespread corruption among law officials

The American Civil Liberties Union helped to reshape the meaning of traditional civil liberties and invented new ones. Which of the following was considered a “new” civil liberty in the 1920s?

c. right to privacy

What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?

c. Control of the nation should be returned to native

What new category did the 1924 immigration law establish?

b. illegal aliens

In 1921, Congress imposed country-by-country immigration quotas. Which of the following regions was not subject to them?

c. the Western Hemisphere 

The Harlem Renaissance

b. describes the quest by writers like Claude McKay to locate the roots of the Black experience

The Great Depression was caused by which of the following factors?

b. an unequal distribution of wealth

Which of the following best describes the economic dynamic of the Great Depression?

e. Mass unemployment and the lack of investment triggered a devastating cycle of deflation

As a response to the Great Depression and in contrast to previous federal economic policy,

c. Hoover approved public

What was a result of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?

a. It deepened the economic crisis. 

The 1920s was a “Republican era” primarily due to

c. resurgence of laissez

According to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the First Amendment

d. did not apply to speech that constituted a “clear and present danger.”

In general, prohibition was enforced

e. selectively, against small

Which statement is true of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act?

d. It conferred citizenship on 100,000 Native Americans