1920's

The establishment of speakeasies in the 1920's 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.

What was a major influence on the popularity of the flapper during the 1920's?

• A decline in the number of women working in urban factories.

• A shift away from the traditional role of women

• An increase in the use of credit and installment plans

• a decrease in crime associated with prohibition.

What was a result of the social problems presented in this 1917 political cartoon?

• Government leaders introduced health-care reform laws.

• Lobbyists focused attention on the power of corporate monopolies

• Women worked to improve conditions in tenement houses.

• Progressives worked to ratify a prohibition amendment.

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.

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

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

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 had increased the competition for jobs

• The fear that communists were infiltrating the United States

• political machines had too power in urban areas

What was one of the positive impacts that the Harlem Renaissance had on U.S. cultural identity during the 1920s?

• It exposed Americans to an earlier age of European art forms.

• It expressed the African American experience in literature.

• It marked a return to art and music that promoted traditional social values.

• It provided financial support for national programs in art and literature.

First Person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in the Spirit of St. Louis

• Herbert Hoover

• Marcus Garvey

• Charles Lindbergh

• Harding

The secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior Albert fall--

• Harlem Renaissance

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• Buying on Margin

• Tin Pan Alley