Eric Foner's Give Me Liberty Ch.20 Study Guide

(Q001) Twice vetoed by President Coolidge, this bill enabled government purchase of agricultural products for sale overseas in order to raise farm prices.

McNary-Haugen bill

Q002) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

stock market crash; Smoot-Hawley Tariff; creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation

(Q003) The Supreme Court threw out the conviction of Mary Ware Dennett, whose alleged crime was

sending a sex-education pamphlet through the mail.

(Q004) In 1924, Congress declared all Indians born in the United States to be

American citizens.

(Q005) In the spring of 1932, approximately 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, and were

driven away by federal soldiers led by army chief of staff Douglas MacArthur.

(Q006) Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre?

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

(Q007) Who said "the chief business of the American people is business"?

Calvin Coolidge

(Q008) Production of the automobile in the 1920s

tripled.

(Q009) Which item was a consumer good in the 1920s?

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refrigerators

(Q010) In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest 5 percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom

60 percent.

(Q011) The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was

Los Angeles, California.

(Q012) The open shop--a workplace free of unions (except, in some cases, "company unions") and free of government regulation--was part of the employer-backed

American Plan.

(Q013) The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was

the Equal Rights Amendment.

(Q014) Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to

normalcy.

(Q015) Who was the first cabinet member in American history to be convicted of a felony--for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?

Albert Fall

(Q016) The 1930 self-imposed guidelines in the film industry that prohibited depicting adultery, nudity, and long kisses, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light was called

the Hays code.

(Q017) In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a "clear and present danger"?

Schenck v. United States

(Q018) During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?

fundamentalists

(Q019) In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?

the Scopes Trial

(Q020) The anti-black, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic organization that claimed over 3 million members by the mid-1920s was

the Ku Klux Klan.

(Q021) The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called

the Harlem Renaissance.

(Q022) The Immigration Act of 1924 created this organization, which was charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions.

the U.S. Border Patrol.

(Q023) Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression that began in October 1929?

collapse of real-estate prices in southern California and Florida

(Q024) President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did which of the following?

offer aid to homeowners threatened with foreclosure

(Q025) Which of the following were addressed in the Johnson-Reed, or Immigration, Act of 1924?

the establishing of no limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere

(Q026) At the beginning of 1929, most American families had accumulated

no money in their savings accounts.

(Q027) This law, considered a major achievement of the maternalist reformers, provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health. However, it was later repealed by Congress in 1929.

Sheppard-Towner Act

(Q028) Edward Bernays, the "father" of modern public relations, masterminded a campaign to

encourage American women to smoke tobacco, calling cigarettes "torches of freedom."

(Q029) After World War I and the 1920s, the Progressives recognized

that the public power could go grievously wrong, as in Prohibition.

(Q030) What two countries were not subject to immigration quota limitations under the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?

Canada and Mexico

(Q031) What two countries suffered the largest reductions in immigration quotas to the United States under the Johnson-Reed act of 1924?

Italy and Russia

(Q032) Who led a rebellion against the U.S. military occupation of Nicaragua in the late 1920s?

Augusto Sandino

(Q033) What was the Red Line Agreement of 1928?

a U.S. and European effort to divide up oil regions in the Middle East and Latin America

(Q034) Who led the three-member commission that sanctioned the verdict and death sentences of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s?

the president of Harvard University

(Q035) American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.

True

(Q036) In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.

True

(Q037) The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity.

True

(Q038) President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a heart attack in 1923.

True

(Q039) By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.

True

(Q040) By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.

True

(Q041) Over 100 million records were sold each year during the 1920s.

True

(Q042) Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.

False

(Q043) The developing consumer culture emphasized the purchasing of goods, even if this meant going into debt, departing from the thrift and self-denial that had previously defined good character.

True

Q044) By 1929, three-quarters of American households had washing machines.

False

(Q045) For the first time in American history, the number of farms and farmers declined during the 1920s.

True

(Q046) Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s

True

(Q047) Women's freedom in the 1920s was characterized by unapologetic use of birth control methods such as the diaphragm.

True

(Q048) In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances.

True

(Q049) During the 1920s, as sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd published in Middletown, elections were lively centers of public attention, much as they had been in the nineteenth century.

False

(Q050) Consumerism was a principal component of the American character in the 1920s.

True