Ch. 22 The Roaring Twenties

Which of these led to the loss of Democrat popularity and the election of Warren Harding to the presidency?

• Administration was involved in Teapot Dome scandal

• Coolidge rewarded business friends with government appointments

• Federal government slashed the budget

• Economic recession hit the United States

What was Teapot Dome?

• a Harding-era scandal named after an oil reserve in Wyoming

• a Coolidge-era scandal named after a bribery scheme in Idaho

• a scandal involving bribery in the Veterans’ Bureau

• the name of Harding’s federal budget-slashing program

Why was the Sacco and Vanzetti case considered controversial?

• They were anarchists who wanted to start a revolution.

• They were released although there was evidence that they were guilty.

• They were deported although many people thought that they should have been executed.

• They were executed although there was little evidence that they were guilty.

Due to the Nineteenth Amendment,

• Prohibition came to an end.

• the making, selling, and transporting of alcohol was prohibited.

• African Americans voted in their first presidential election.

• American women voted in their first presidential election.

Which invention encouraged tourism and created new businesses in the 1920s?

• the radio

• the automobile

• silent films

• the refrigerator

How did radio change American life in the 1920s?

• It increased racial and religious tensions.

• It made it easier for families to move to the suburbs.

• It gave women a public voice and a place to air their concerns.

• It exposed the whole nation to the same information and entertainment.

The northward movement of African Americans in the 1920s was called

• the Roaring 20s.

• the Great Migration.

• the United Negro Improvement Association.

• the Lindy Hop.

Which of the following phrases best describes the Jazz Age?

• a spirit that affected American music, literature, art, and society at large

• a period of fads and heroes that enchanted Americans around the country

• the migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the North

• the era of silent movies, which often used jazz for their background music

Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston were part of a period of cultural excitement in the 1920s known as the

• New Age.

• Harlem Renaissance.

• return to “normalcy.”

• Red Scare.

The booming stock market in the 1920s

• made most Americans wealthy.

• encouraged people to borrow money to buy stocks.

• discouraged people from borrowing money to buy stocks.

• ended unemployment in the United States.