Review Questions
- Which of the following films released in 1927 was the first successful talking motion picture?
- The Clansman
- The Great Gatsby
- The Jazz Singer
- The Birth of a Nation
- The popularization of ________ expanded the communications and sports industries.
- radios
- talkies
- the Model T
- airplanes
- Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
- Orville Wright
- Jim Thorpe
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charles Lindbergh
- How did Henry Ford transform the automobile industry?
- The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a law that banned teaching about ________ in public schools.
- the Bible
- Darwinism
- primates
- Protestantism
- Which man was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?
- Babe Ruth
- H. L. Mencken
- Jim Thorpe
- Billy Sunday
- What was the platform of the Second Ku Klux Klan, and in what activities did they engage to promote it?
- The popularization of which psychologist’s ideas encouraged the new morality of the 1920s?
- Sigmund Freud
- Alice Paul
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Margaret Sanger
- Which amendment did Alice Paul promote to end gender discrimination?
- Prohibition Amendment
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Sheppard-Towner Amendment
- Free Exercise Amendment
- Which novel of the era satirized the conformity of the American middle class?
- This Side of Paradise
- The Sun Also Rises
- A Farewell to Arms
- Babbitt
- Why did the prohibition amendment fail after its adoption in 1919?
- What was the Harlem Renaissance, and who were some of the most famous participants?
- Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?
- Calvin Coolidge
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
- James Cox
- In 1929, Albert Fall was convicted of bribery while holding the position of ________.
- Secretary of the Interior
- head of the Veterans’ Bureau
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Secretary of Commerce
- Coolidge’s presidency was characterized by ________.
- scandal and dishonesty
- silence and inactivity
- flamboyancy and extravagance
- ambition and greed
- What was the economic outlook of the average American when Herbert Hoover took office in 1929?