The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

From Boom to Bust, the 1920s

Multiple Choice

The Roaring Twenties were characterized by —

• Internment camps, the rationing of goods, and the first use of an atomic bomb.

• Bank failures, the New Deal, and bread lines.

• Installment plans, Prohibition, and flappers.

• Brinkmanship, McCarthyism, and a policy of containment.

Multiple Choice

During the 1920s, what was one result of innovations in U.S. transportation technology?

• Commercial airplanes replaced ocean liners as the primary means of travel to Europe.

• Mass-produced automobiles made travel more affordable for many people.

• Cable cars provided a comfortable means of quick travel to any city within a state.

• Container ships delivered agricultural goods to ports along the Pacific coast.

Multiple Choice

How did these developments in transportation most affect the standard of living in U.S. cities?

• By increasing the expenses associated with relocation.

• By giving residents more flexibility in employment.

• By expanding the options for personal education.

• By increasing traffic congestion on city streets.

Multiple Choice

How did the events on this time line affect U.S. businesses?

• Profit sharing became a standard practice for industrial corporations.

• Monopolistic practices were abolished by federal legislation.

• Mass-manufacturing techniques were adopted to maximize production.

• Retirement plans were guaranteed to factory workers.

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of a successful innovation of the assembly-line production model?

• A social-media company initiates a new privacy policy for its subscribers.

• A financial adviser redistributes money throughout a customer’s portfolio.

• A computer is built to a purchaser’s specifications using the available inventory of supplies.

• A cable-television company updates its system to include more channels.

Multiple Choice

How did the process shown in this photograph enhance the automobile industry?

• By speeding up production of automobiles at lower costs.

• By requiring only licensed workers to produce the automobiles.

• By ensuring high-quality automobiles for consumers at higher prices.

• By developing new designs to test automobile safety standards.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a major contribution of the Harlem Renaissance to U.S. culture?

• It led to the increased popularity of vaudeville stage performers.

• It brought the most significant beat poets together.

• It established jazz as a prominent musical form.

• It focused attention on the antiwar literary genre.

Multiple Choice

Which of these cause-and-effect relationships is accurate?

• The ideas of social Darwinism led to the passage of Prohibition laws.

• The signing of the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the implementation of the New Deal.

• The ideas of the Harlem Renaissance influenced the growth of the Civil Rights movement.

• The rise of fascism in Italy influenced the onset of the Red Scare.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following identifies two effects of the Harlem Renaissance?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

How does this excerpt reflect a significant turning point in American history?

• It depicts the reaction to victory in the Spanish-American War.

• It portrays the changing social norms of the Jazz Age.

• It describes the experiences of immigrant workers during the Gilded Age.

• It details the industrial progress of the post–World War I era.

Multiple Choice

Which action completes this cause-and-effect diagram?

• Banks lower interest rates.

• Elected leaders lower tariff rates.

• Companies lay off employees.

• Labor unions demand higher wages.

Multiple Choice

Why did the “Return to Normalcy” agenda of U.S. presidential candidate Warren G. Harding appeal to many voters in the 1920 election?

• The public wanted to help rebuild war-torn countries.

• There were significant shortages of military supplies.

• There was a decrease in demand for consumer goods.

• The public wanted to concentrate on domestic economic issues.

Multiple Choice

How did the introduction of these new practices most benefit U.S. business?

• By increasing production efficiency.

• By preventing shortages of goods.

• By increasing protective tariffs.

• By decreasing exports.

Multiple Choice

Which pull factor contributed to the Great Migration?

• The availability of land grants for homesteaders.

• Economic opportunities in industrialized cities.

• Better soil conditions in previously uncultivated areas.

• The lower cost of living in urban areas.

Multiple Choice

What was a primary reason for the demographic shift described in this excerpt?

• Increased demand for sharecroppers in the North.

• Limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South.

• Increased availability of manufactured goods in the North.

• A lack of educational institutions for African Americans in the South.

Multiple Choice

During the 1920s, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were most closely identified with the —

• Increased use of credit by U.S. consumers.

• Development of new forms of popular entertainment.

• Decline of public support for Progressive reforms.

• Conflict between modernism and traditionalism.

Multiple Choice

This excerpt illustrates Harding’s campaign promise to be a president who would —

• Help the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade.

• Refuse to allow the continuation of laissez-faire economic policies.

• Use diplomacy to establish alliances with other countries.

• Improve economic growth by promoting unrestricted immigration.

Multiple Choice

Which of these resulted from the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?

• A decline in immigration rates.

• A growing fear of communism.

• The expansion of the consumer economy.

• The rise of organized crime

Multiple Choice

Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because —

• Assimilation programs in the United States had been unsuccessful.

• Economic decline had increased the competition for jobs.

• Communists were infiltrating the United States.

• Political machines had too much power in urban areas.

Multiple Choice

Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that —

• People in lower classes were not capable of economic success.

• Immigration weakened national unity.

• The government should take responsibility for the well-being of people.

• Poverty could be eradicated through increased economic regulation.

Multiple Choice

What was the primary reason for the raids described in this excerpt?

• To prevent workers from joining labor organizations.

• To block civil rights advocates from staging public protests.

• To suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges.

• To halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals.

Multiple Choice

Which inference about the 1920s is supported by this illustration?

• Women confronted discrimination in employment and education.

• Women challenged traditional attitudes and social norms.

• Reform organizations targeted women’s issues.

• Mass media reflected trends popular in rural communities.

Multiple Choice

The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920s was an unintended consequence of which federal government action?

• The taxation of imported luxury goods.

• The deportation of suspected communist sympathizers.

• The prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages.

• The implementation of immigration restrictions.