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Chapter 10 Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Warren G Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans' desire to...

a)

Become a world power

b)

Reform society

c)

Return to life as it was before the war

d)

Repeal prohibition

2.

Coolidge believed part of his job as president was to make sure the government...

a)

Interfered with business and industry as little as possible

b)

Regulated big business in order to stabilize the economy

c)

Participated regularly in world affairs

d)

Became involved in social reform

3.

Henry Ford’s system for making cars increased efficiency by...

a)

Reducing the number of parts needed.

b)

Training each worker to do every task.

c)

Assigning a team to each car.

d)

Dividing operations into simple tasks.

4.

Commercial radio began its rise in November 1920, with news about...

a)

World War I.

b)

Charles Lindbergh.

c)

A presidential election.

d)

Albert B. Fall.

5.

The McNary-Haugen Bill called for the government to...

a)

Place tariffs on foreign agricultural products

b)

Set lower prices for agricultural products sold in the United States

c)

Buy American crop surpluses and use them to feed the military

d)

Buy American crop surpluses and sell the abroad

6.

Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because...

a)

The bullets used in a murder matched Sacco's gun

b)

They were Italian immigrants and anarchists

c)

Sacco owned a gun similiar to the murder weapon

d)

They were members of the KKK

7.

In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan added to its membership by...

a)

Avoiding scandals and power struggles

b)

Hiring professional promoters

c)

Opening membership to all whites, regardless of religion

d)

Publicizing their support of legitimate political goals

8.

The new morality of the 1920s glorified...

a)

Work

b)

Traditional values

c)

Personal freedom

d)

Wealth

9.

John T Scopes was put on trial for...

a)

Violating Prohibition laws

b)

Being a leader of the KKK

c)

Accepting bribes

d)

Teaching evolution

10.

The flowering of African American arts in the 1920s became known as the...

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Great Migration

c)

Great Awakening

d)

Glory Days

11.

The Ohio Gang was a...

a)

Powerful crime network

b)

Group of notorious bank robbers

c)

Group of Harding's friends

d)

Nickname for the Veterans Bureau

12.

In the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B Fall received bribes for...

a)

Allowing private interests to drill for oil in a national park.

b)

Preventing federal prosecution of a member of the Ohio Gang.

c)

Promising immunity to businesses who overcharged the U.S. Navy.

d)

Allowing private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves.

13.

After entrepreneurs such as Glenn Curtiss started building practical

aircraft, the federal government...

a)

Began to restrict commercial flights.

b)

Began to support the airline industry.

c)

Ordered a fleet of new warplanes.

d)

Restricted flying in urban areas.

14.

An unintended effect of the Fordney-McCumber Act was that...

a)

Farmers could no longer sell their crops in the American market.

b)

Demand for American farm products increased in Latin America.

c)

Farmers could no longer sell their crops to overseas markets.

d)

Demand for American farm products increased overseas.

15.

After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by...

a)

Avoiding involvement in world affairs.

b)

Excluding Germany from the League of Nations.

c)

Disbanding the League of Nations.

d)

Forbidding Germany to rebuild its armed forces.

16.

The purpose of the Volstead Act was to...

a)

Limit immigration

b)

Ban the teaching of evolution

c)

Prohibit lynching

d)

Enforce Prohibition

17.

The golden age of Hollywood began in 1927 with the release of the first...

a)

Full-length motion picture

b)

Feature-length film

c)

“Talking” motion picture

d)

Animated film

18.

The Cotton Club was...

a)

a Chicago speakeasy where gangsters, artists, and politicians congregated

b)

a Harlem nightspot where many African American entertainers got their start

c)

a Hollywood nightspot frequented by the stars of the silver screen

d)

a fictitious nightclub featured in the famous picture The Jazz Singer

19.

The NAACP’s lobbying efforts influenced the House of Representatives

to pass, in 1922,

a)

Anti-lynching legislation

b)

Anti-segregation legislation

c)

Voting rights legislation

d)

Equal opportunity legislation

20.

One of the NAACP’s greatest political triumphs occurred in 1930 with the...

a)

Signing of a law ending segregation in public schools

b)

Signing of a law banning discrimination in federal jobs

c)

Defeat of an allegedly racist judge nominated for the Supreme Court

d)

Appointment of an African American to the Supreme Court