Chapter 10 The Roaring 20s

Why was national attention drawn to William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial of 1925?

• The case represented a conflict between modern science and religion

• ‘The case reversed a previous Supreme Court decision on free speech

• The case upheld the right of veterans to protest in Washington, D.C.

• The Case revealed the extent of prejudice against immigrants

“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men, after the simplest designs that engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one -and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s open spaces.”

Which management innovation helped Henry Ford to realize this vision?

• Providing various models of cars

• Creating a business monopoly

• Downsizing the labor force

• Using assemble-line production methods

Which American author’s works are closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Upton Sinclair

• Langston Hughes

• John Steinbeck

Which factor played the largest role in fueling the economic boom of the 1920s?

• Government subsidies paid to farmers

• Tariff reductions on imported European goods

• The increasing ownership of automobiles by families

• Construction by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

The executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s demonstrated the -

• Federal government’s war on crime

• The persistence of lynchings

• Corruption of political machines

• Increase in Nativist attitudes

Prohibition, established by the Eighteenth Amendment, stated that-

• Only imported alcoholic beverages could be sold

• The manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was banned

• Americans must be 18 years old to purchase alcoholic beverages

• Alcoholic beverages could be sold only in government run stores

During the 1920s, Congress passed a series of immigration laws that were primarily designed to

• Increase immigration from Asia

• Expand the workforce for growing economy

• Limit immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

• prohibit immigration from Latin America

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

• Trail of ‘Sacco and Vanzetti

Which event represented an expression of nativism during the 1920s?

• Trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution

• Adoption of quota system to limit immigration

• Charles Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight

• The rise in popularity of spectator sports

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, what was the main reason many African American left the South?

• The Dawes Act made free land available in the West

• More factory jobs were available in the North

• Many white landowners refused to accept them as sharecroppers

• Racial discrimination did not occur in states outside the South