Us Histiry Chapter 20 review test

The period of rising stock prices

Bull market

In the 1920s, how did moat national leaders hope to go about avoiding war?

By avoiding other nations

A period of time with a large number of New goods became widely available

Consumer revolution

World leaders used the ————— to limit international construction of warships

Washington naval discernment conference

As president, Warren G Harding….

Reduced the regulation on businesses out into place by the progressives

The —————— arranged for US to Germany

Dawes plan

During the 1920s, American farmers as a group

Suffered economically

What was the condition of America's economy following World War I?

There was a brief for session, followed by economic growth

President Harding signaled his administration's economic direction when he appointed --------as secretary of the treasury

Andrew Mellon

A form of credit often used to purchase stock in the 1920s

Buying on margin

Used by Henry Ford to assemble cars more effectiently

Assembly line

Under who did the national economy boomed?

Calvin Coolidge

Who served the secretary commerce under Harding

Herbert Hoover

A method of studying and improving efficiency

Scientific management

Under President Coolidge, the concerns of Mexican Americans and African Americans were…

Largely ignored

A type of credit in which a small down payment is followed by monthly payments

Installment buying

President Coolidge believed that the creation of wealth…

Benefited the nation as a whole

The demand for automobiles in the 1920s ….

Stimulated growth in many other industries

Presidents Harding and Coolidge favorite polices that…

Aided the griwth of business

What was a major result of Henry Fords innovation manufacturing techniques…?

The sale prices of cars went down

The 18th amendment ….

Amended the US consitution to forbid the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcohol

The quota system…

Was established to regulate immigration from specific countries

Clearance Darrow …

Wasvthe most celebrated defense attorney in America

Clearance Darrow..

Provided the legal defense for John Scopes when he was charged with teaching evolution in Tenesse

Bootleggers…

Sold illegal alcohol to consumers

The Scopes Trial

Was the clash of fundamentalism and modernism over the teaching of evolution

What was the largest cultural split in 1920s America?

Between urban Americans and rural Americans

Why was formal education more important for urban Americans than rural Americans?

Most higher paying jobs in cities required a good education

A5 its heary, the scopes Trial was a clash between….

Religion and Science

Most Americans who opposed the Ku Klux Klan embraced what notion?

That America was a “melting pot”

Was the baseball home run king in the 1920s..

Babe Ruth

Which of these was a major difference between urban and rural lifestyles in the 1920s?

Urban Americans had more free time

Played a popular character called “The little Tramp” in silent films

Charlie Chaplin

Was known for writing in a powerful, concrete style

Ernest Hemingway

Abstract Art was an expression of…?

Modernism

In 1920, America's first radio station…

Was an immediate succes

Jay Gatsby was a literacy creation of…

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The symbol of the “New Woman” of the 1920s was the…

Flapper

The first movie to have sound synchronized with the action was…

The Jazz Singer

The “New Woman” of the 1920s….

Rejected Victorian morality

Collected and published folk tales of her native Florida

Zola Neale Hurston

Jazz was…

An American hybrid of African American and European music forms

The most militant of the Harlem Renaissance

Calude McKay

Popular jazz Trumper of the 1920s..

Louis Armstrong

The sense of group identity created by the Herlem Renaaissance…

Formed a basis for later progress for Blacks in America

Jamaican born African American who organized “Back to Africa” movement

Marcus Garvey

The literature of the Harlem Renaissance…

Explored the pains and joys of being black in America

Outpouring of African American culture…

Harlem Renaissance

Why did so many African Americans migrate north throughout the 1920s?

For a better chance at a better life

Popular blues singer of the 1920s

Bessie Smith

The US handling of the post war world one debt situation….

strained international relationships, linked european recovery from the war to american finance, led to global economic instability.

Why did Marcus Graviuos' movement fell apart?

he got jailed for mail fraud.

Which best describes changing attitudes of people living in developing suburbs?

.people became more conservative & politically active, consumerism.