Chapter 8 The Jazz Age

During the 1920s, unions declined in part because many corporations instituted

• cooperative individualism.

• reparations.

• sociological departments.

• welfare capitalism.

Every year from 1924 to 1928, Senator Charles McNary of Oregon and Representative Gilbert Haugen of Iowa proposed the McNary-Haugen Bill, which called for the federal government to purchase surplus ____________________ and sell them abroad while protecting the American market with a high tariff.

Henry Ford’s business philosophy was to increase sales by

• providing consumers with a variety of styles and colors.

• advertising.

• lowering the cost per car.

• constantly improving his cars’ mechanical reliability.

Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and the Cotton Club were all part of the

• Black Nationalist Movement.

• Great Awakening.

• South Side Renaissance.

• Harlem Renaissance.

How did the Dawes Plan try to promote peace?

• It proposed a treaty to outlaw war.

• The plan set limits on the construction of new warships and required the Japanese navy to be smaller than those of the United States and Great Britain.

• It increased tariffs on imports from Germany to pay reparations to France and Great Britain.

• The plan allowed U.S. banks to loan money to Germany so it could pay reparations.

What effect did the automobile industry of the 1920s have on American society?

• Workers did not commute any more.

• The mail delivery system expanded across the country.

• People moved from the suburbs to the city.

• People could live farther from their places of work.

A center of creativity and freedom where many artists, writers, and intellectuals of the 1920s gathered was

• Boston.

• Greenwich Village.

• Charlestown.

• Haight-Ashbury.

The American Civil Liberties Union advertised for a teacher who would be willing to be arrested for teaching ____________________.

According to the chart, all of the treaties dealt with what region of the world?

• the Pacific

• Europe

• South America

• the Atlantic

What system of manufacturing adopted by Henry Ford divided operations into simple tasks and cut unnecessary motion to a minimum?

• assembly line

• product placement

• construction design

• apprentice system