Economic & Social Changes: Post-WWI to Consumerism

Which phrase best describes President Warren G. Harding’s approach after World War I that emphasized pro-business policies and a desire to restore prewar conditions?

• New Deal

• Return to Normalcy

• Square Deal

• Great Society

Which innovation is most directly associated with Henry Ford’s ability to produce cars more efficiently and at lower cost in the 1920s?

• Vertical integration

• Scientific management

• Assembly line

• Just-in-time inventory

Which development most contributed to the rise of a consumer society by enabling people to buy goods immediately and pay over time?

• Protective tariffs

• Consumer credit (installment plans)

• Price controls

• Gold standard

Which list contains new or improved consumer goods that transformed everyday life in the 1920s?

• Steam engines, telegraphs, cotton gins

• Refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, ready-made clothes, radios, motion pictures

• Television, smartphones, microwaves

• Canals, windmills, loom machines

In 1927, which achievement boosted public confidence in air travel and encouraged investment in aeronautics, helping commercial airline service expand?

• The first jet-powered flight across the Pacific

• Charles Lindbergh’s first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

• Amelia Earhart’s nonstop circumnavigation of the globe

• The first helicopter rescue at sea

Which companies are noted as controlling chains of theaters during the rise of movies in the 1920s?

• Warner Bros. and RKO

• Paramount Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

• Universal and Columbia

• Fox and United Artists

According to the material, the silent film era came to an end in October 1927 with the release of which film?

• The Gold Rush

• City Lights

• The Jazz Singer

• Metropolis

During which multi-decade population movement, lasting from 1916 to the 1970s, did millions of African Americans relocate from the South to the North?

• The Dust Bowl Migration

• The Great Migration

• The Sunbelt Shift

• The New Deal Relocation

Which neighborhood became the cultural center for New York City’s Black community as its population doubled in the 1920s?

• Bedford-Stuyvesant

• Harlem

• Lower East Side

• Bronx Park

Which technology, paired with the phonograph, gave a big boost to the music business and helped spread jazz in the 1920s?

• Television

• Radio

• Cassette tapes

• Compact discs