APUSH Give Me Liberty - Ch 20

Which term describes changes in behavior of women in the 1920s, including smoking, drinking in public, voting, wearing shorter dresses, dancing, cutting their hair, wearing makeup, and not wearing restricting corsets?

• "new woman"

• consumerism

• "modernists"

• Harlem Renaissance

Which concept refers to a society that, according to Robert and Helen Lynd’s observations in Middleton, shifted focus toward consumer goods and leisure activities rather than politics, creating a setting where people could go buy things?

• consumerism

• isolationism

• fundamentalism

• "golden door"

Who took office as U.S. president in 1921 promising a return to normalcy, led an administration that became very corrupt, and died in 1923?

• Warren G. Harding

• Calvin Coolidge

• Clarence Darrow

• Billy Sunday

Who became U.S. president after Warren G. Harding died, had previously served as governor of Massachusetts, vetoed the McNary–Haugen Bill, and was reelected in 1924?

• Calvin Coolidge

• Warren G. Harding

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

What was the campaign pledge described as a promise to return to "normal" life?

• "normalcy"

• "golden door"

• isolationism

• Hays Code

Which scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepting $500,000 from private businessmen to lease government oil reserves in Wyoming, resulting in the first-ever felony conviction of a cabinet member?

• Teapot Dome scandal

• Scopes Trial

• Fordney–McCumber Tariff

• Hays Code

Which term names an era in U.S. history when the country attempted to stay out of foreign affairs, rejected Woodrow Wilson’s international goals, and did not join the League of Nations?

• isolationism

• consumerism

• fundamentalism

• Harlem Renaissance

Which 1922 law raised taxes on imported goods to the highest levels ever?

• Fordney–McCumber Tariff

• Smoot–Hawley Tariff

• McNary–Haugen Bill

• Hays Code

Which industry code, adopted out of fear of bad publicity, prohibited movies from showing nudity, long kisses, adultery, and portraying clergymen or criminals in a good light, with the hope that this would prevent censorship?

• Hays Code

• Comstock Act

• Volstead Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

Which label described a group of writers in the 1920s who felt lost in a greedy, materialistic world lacking moral values and chose to flee to Europe?

• Lost Generation

• Harlem Renaissance

• "modernists"

• American Civil Liberties Union