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Why are the twenties sometimes called an "age of prosperity"? |
The GNP rose dramatically and the United States changed from a debtor nation to a creditor nation. |
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Which was not a limit on post-World War I prosperity? |
Assembly line jobs. |
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Why did the automobile have a major impact on the United States in the twenties? |
By the end of the decade, automobile ownership had increased dramatically. |
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How did technology change American life in the 1920s? |
More Americans than ever had access to radios, telephones, electricity, and indoor plumbing. |
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What 1920s trend favored individual experiences, emotions, and the expression of personal freedom in contrast to an earlier emphasis on consensus and reaction? |
Modernism. |
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Dating, high school activities, and longer school enrollments in the 1920s were all signs of what phenomenon? |
Youth culture. |
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What was the Harlem Renaissance? |
An African American cultural movement that included literature, drama, music, art, and dance. |
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What did nativists and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? |
Both objected to immigration and believed in the supremacy of white Protestants. |
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What brought a ban on the sale of alcohol and an increase in organized crime to the United States during the 1920s? |
The 18th Amendment. |
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What brought the conflict between the teaching of evolution and religious fundamentalism to head? |
The Scopes Trial. |
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What group could be described for the first time in the 1920s with the terms flapper, wage-earner, and voter? |
Women. |
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Which policy was common to the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations? |
An emphasis on big business and the growth of corporate power. |
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Which U.S president would disagree with the idea that the president should be a good friend to big business? |
Woodrow Wilson. |
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Which was not one of the cause of the Great Depression? |
Excessive income taxes. |
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What did investors do that helped trigger the stock market crash in 1929? |
Bought stock on credit, thinking that prices would continue to rise. |
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Which was a cause of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains? |
Native grasses were removed to produce wheat, leaving nothing to hold the soil in place. |
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What pushed Great Plains farmers to leave their lands and migrate to California? |
Difficult conditions brought on by a severe drought. |
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Who were the Okies and what did they do? |
Plains farmers and others who migrated west in an effort to escape the drought. |
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What was one impact of the Depression? |
There was a drop in the marriage and birth rates. |
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What were some signs of the Great Depression in American cities and towns? |
Soup kitchens and bank closures. |
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What did Herbert Hoover believe about government and economics? |
Hoover believed in voluntary cooperation between business with little government intervention. |
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How did Herbert Hoover’s beliefs about business and government affect the economy? |
Hoover’s belief in nonintervention kept the government from responding quickly and deepened the depression. |
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