The Roaring Twenties Quiz

One way in which the economic principles of Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar is that both believed that government should

• raise income taxes

• provide relief payments to unemployed workers

• limit its regulation of business activities

• purchase surplus farm products

During the 1920s, installment buying, income inequality, and stock market speculation contributed to the

• introduction of supply-side economics

• return of laissez-faire economic principles

• economic weaknesses that helped bring about the Great Depression

• decision to lower tariff rates

Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois agreed that African Americans should

• use education to gain opportunities

• support a 'Back to Africa' movement

• take part in boycotts to end segregation

• adopt a gradual approach to gain the right to vote

Which event of the 1920s best reflects the conflict in American society between science and religion?

• passage of the quota acts

• Scopes trial

• trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

• Red Scare

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s expanded the influence of African Americans by

• financing the construction of apartments in New York City

• gaining passage of civil rights legislation

• helping elect African Americans to high political offices

• promoting the artistic contributions of African Americans

“Harding Rejects Wilson’s Foreign Policy—Wants

Return to ‘Normalcy’”

“Coolidge Declares: ‘The Chief Business of the

American People Is Business’”

“Hoover Calls for ‘Rugged Individualism’; Rejects

Paternalism and Socialism”

Which policy of Republican presidents in the 1920s is most consistent with the positions stated in these headlines?

• The United States should assist unions and provide old-age insurance.

• The United States should acquire and protect an empire.

• The federal government should support the poor and raise farm prices.

• The federal government should assist business and limit foreign commitments.

During the 1920s, which economic trend helped cause the Great Depression?

• buying goods on credit

• saving rather than spending

• continuing shortages of consumer goods

• imposing low tariffs on imported products

During the 1920s, the Palmer raids, immigration quotas, and the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti resulted from

• racial prejudice against African Americans

• opposition to the Ku Klux Klan

• the fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas

• the need to strengthen national defense

Which factor led to agricultural overproduction and falling farm prices during the 1920s?

• decline in European demand after World War I

• lower tariffs enacted by Congress

• lack of access to cheap credit

• decreasing population in cities of the South

What was a major factor leading to the erosion of regional cultural differences in the 1920s?

• development of television

• growing popularity of radio and motion pictures

• publication of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis

• expansion of air travel after Charles Lindbergh's flight