Q1-5
Woodrow Wilson was welcomed to this city in 1918 as part of a peace conference
a. Berlin
b. Mexico City
c. London
d. Tokyo
e. Paris
What is Paris?
The wartime slogan, “100 percent Americanism” is associated with which organization of the 1920s?
a. AFL
b. KKK
c. WCTU
d. IWW
e. NAACP
What is the KKK?
All of the following individuals were closely associated with the radio broadcasting revolution of the 1920s
EXCEPT
a. David Sarnoff
b. Dr. Frank Conrad
c. Father Charles Coughlin
d. Red Grange
e. Herbert Hoover
What is Red Grange?
Clara Bow and Mary Pickford were both famous American
a. politicians
b. singers
c. actors
d. writers
e. activists
What are actors?
Which of the following BEST describes the “movie palaces” of the 1920s?
a. small outdoor theaters offering free movies
b. ornate, air-conditioned auditoriums with live entertainment
c. converted churches used as cinemas
d. drive-in theaters catering to rural audiences
e. temporary pop-up theaters in city parks
What are ornate, air-conditioned auditoriums with live entertainment?
Slogans like “Buy Now, Pay Later” and “Enjoy while you pay” are closely associated with which of the
following business strategies?
a. unionism
b. installment buying
c. planned obsolescence
d. welfare capitalism
e. vertical integration
What is installment buying?
Alfred E. Smith was the governor from what state?
a. Virginia
b. Texas
c. New York
d. Massachusetts
e. Vermont
What is New York?
Carrie Buck was a young woman involuntarily sterilized in what state?
a. Maryland
b. North Carolina
c. Virginia
d. Texas
e. California
What is Virginia?
All of the following are true of attorney Clarence Darrow EXCEPT
a. he was a famous state prosecutor
b. his nickname was “Old Lion”
c. he was a liberal agnostic
d. he defended Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb
e. he represented many clients in capital cases
What is "he was a famous state prosecutor"?
One of the political platforms most important to Democrats in the 1920s was
a. abolitionism
b. prohibitionism
c. minimalism
d. utilitarianism
e. social Darwinism
What is prohibitionism?
The term “blind pigs” was slang for which of the following?
a. bootleggers
b. police
c. gangsters
d. poor quality alcohol
e. speakeasies
What is speakeasies?
What was a direct result of the automotive revolution of the 1920s?
a. the Great Depression
b. an increased investment in railroad infrastructure
c. welfare capitalism
d. the introduction of a national highway system
e. electrification
Which of the following people was voted both the “top ten personages of the world” and appeared on the
cover of Time in 1930?
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. George Remus
c. Al Capone
d. Alfred E. Smith
e. Herbert Hoover
Who is Al Capone?
The most vocal advocate for the League of Nations was
a. Henry Cabot Lodge
b. Woodrow Wilson
c. Eugene Debs
d. Winston Churchill
e. Theodore Roosevelt
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Unlike American urban and suburban communities of the Northeast and the Midwest, rural communities of
the South and West in the 1920s
a. had significant numbers of automobile accidents
b. were heavily unionized
c. had less access to electrification
d. could purchase home appliances on credit
e. were affected by mass consumption
What is less access to electrification?
In the United States, which city is considered the birthplace of jazz music?
a. San Francisco
b. Boston
c. Saint Louis
d. Charleston
e. New Orleans
What is New Orleans?
Gangster Al Capone was MOST closely associated with which U.S. city?
a. New York City
b. Atlanta
c. Chicago
d. Philadelphia
e. San Francisco
What is Chicago?
Detroit became known as the “Motor City” in part because Henry Ford introduced the
a. 20-year pension guarantee
b. 15% employee discount
c. 40 hour maximum work week
d. 10 days of paid vacation leave
e. 5 dollar minimum wage payments
What are 5 dollar minimum wage payments?
During World War I, Herbert Hoover led a relief campaign in the country of
a. England
b. France
c. Belgium
d. Germany
e. Norway
What is Belgium?
In the United States, the end of World War I led to all of the following EXCEPT
a. a rise in labor strikes across the nation
b. the end of a booming war economy
c. a marked rise in the rates of inflation
d. the advent of social security legislation
e. a major rise in unemployment rates
From 1900-1920, immigration waves originated predominantly from all of the following places EXCEPT
a. England
b. Italy
c. Poland
d. Slovakia
e. Hungary
What is England?
The case of Charles Schenck concerned the legal interpretation of the
a. First Amendment
b. Second Amendment
c. Fifth Amendment
d. Fourteenth Amendment
e. Fifteenth Amendment
What is the First Amendment?
Herbert Hoover, prior to entering politics, worked as a(n)
a. engineer
b. architect
c. editor
d. teacher
e. lawyer
What is an engineer?
All of the following were famous American athletes of the 1920s EXCEPT
a. Bobby Jones
b. Gertrude Ederle
c. Wilt Chamberlain
d. William Tilden
e. Babe Ruth
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
All of the following were leading criticisms of Hoover’s response to the Great Mississippi flood EXCEPT
a. he permitted Red Cross camps to be racially segregated
b. he faced charges of racial discrimination in relief work
c. he relegated African American refugees to fewer tents and supplies
d. he knew that African American families were forced to remain in the camps
e. he created new government agencies to offer direct relief payments
What is the creation of government agencies to offer direct relief payments?