Review Questions
1. 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
2. The popularization of ________ expanded the communications and sports industries.
radios
talkies
the Model T
airplanes
3. Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Orville Wright
Jim Thorpe
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Lindbergh
4. How did Henry Ford transform the automobile industry?
5. The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a law that banned teaching about ________ in public schools.
the Bible
Darwinism
primates
Protestantism
6. Which man was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?
Babe Ruth
H. L. Mencken
Jim Thorpe
Billy Sunday
7. What was the platform of the Second Ku Klux Klan, and in what activities did they engage to promote it?
8. 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
9. Which amendment did Alice Paul promote to end gender discrimination?
Prohibition Amendment
Equal Rights Amendment
Sheppard-Towner Amendment
Free Exercise Amendment
10. 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
11. Why did the prohibition amendment fail after its adoption in 1919?
12. What was the Harlem Renaissance, and who were some of the most famous participants?
13. Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding
James Cox
14. 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
15. Coolidge’s presidency was characterized by ________.
scandal and dishonesty
silence and inactivity
flamboyancy and extravagance
ambition and greed
16. What was the economic outlook of the average American when Herbert Hoover took office in 1929?