CHAPTER 23: Modern Times 1920-1932
The Business-Government Partnership of the 1920sPolitics in the Republican “ New Era ”
Know: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, “Uncle Warren”, Charles Evans Hughes
1. List the elected Republican Party leaders and their roles as followed by the election of 1920. A.
B. C.
-The “ Associated State. ”
Know: Herbert Hoover, Commerce Department, FTC, William Howard Taft
2. State the scandals that occurred during Harding’s administration and explain the causes. A.
B. C.
-The 1924 Election
Know: Calvin Coolidge, Robert M. La Follette, Progressive Party 3. What is significant about the election of 1924?
A. B. C.
-Women in Politics
Know: lobbyists, Joint Congressional Committee, League of Women Voters, Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act
4. Why were the women unsuccessful in their political activism? A.
B. C.
-Corporate Capitalism Business Consolidation
Know: Dupont, Westinghouse and General Electric, General Motors, oligopoly 5. Analyze the growth of industries and corporations from 1920’s to 1930’s.
A. B. C.
-The Economy during the 1920s.
Know: Scientific management, McNary-Haugen, “sick industries”
6. What were the strongest and weakest points of American economy? A.
B. C.
-Welfare Capitalism
Know: welfare capitalism, ample benefits, employee committees, “American Plan”, Colorado Coal Company v. United Mine Workers, Atkins v. Children’s Hospital
7. Assess the prosperity of industrial and white-collar employees. A.
B. C.
-Economic Expansion Abroad
Know: General Motors, United Fruit Company, American banks, Dawes Plan, Hawley-Smoot Act of 1930 8. How did U.S economy expand in the International arena?
A. B. C.
-Foreign Policy in the 1920s
Know: Isolationist, Internationalist, nationalize
9. List examples to prove that the America was both isolationist and Internationalist during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
A. B. C.
-The Washington Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
Know: Washington Naval Arms Conference of 1921, Frank Kellogg, “international kiss” 10. How did the U.S lead the disarmament in the 20’s?
A. B. C.
-A New National Culture A Consumer Society
Know: Credit, electric appliances, advertisement
11. In what ways were millions of Americans able to connect through similar daily experiences? A.
B. C.
-The World of the Automobile Know: Mass production, assembly line
12. In what ways did the introduction of the automobile revolutionize American life? A.
B. C.
-The Movies and Mass Culture
Know: The Great Train Robbery, nickelodeons, Charlie Chaplin 13. How did movies take root in American culture?
A. B. C.
-Clara Bow: The “It” Girl
Know: Flappers, It, social emancipation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Samuel Goldfish, talkies 14. Why was Clara Bow such a sensational cultural icon?
A. B. C. -Jazz.
Know: phonographs, The Jazz Singer
15. In what ways was jazz music attractive to audiences? A.
B. C.
-Journalism and Radio
Know: Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Associated Press, tabloids, KDKA, CBS, NBC
16. How did journalism and the radio give American access into the national scene?. A.
B. C.
-Leisure and Sports
Know: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, Satchel Paige, Negro National League, Southern Negro League
17. How did the introduction of national sports, such as baseball, define the new idea of leisure and recreation time in American life?
A. B. C.
-Redefining American Identity The Rise of Nativism
Know: tax dollars, city services
18. How did the rising tension between city dwellers and rural folk progress to the popularity of nativism?
A. B. C.
-Immigration Restriction
Know: Nativist, National Origins Act 1924, Senator William Bruce
19. Why did nativists turn their animosity towards immigration and how did they limit immigration? A.
B. C. -The New Klan
Know: Birth of a Nation, klaverns, Grand Dragon David Stephenson
20. How did the revival of the KKK initiate and strengthen the nativist cause? A.
B. C.
-Legislating Values: Evolution and Prohibition
Know: Fundamentalist, Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution 21. How did the conflict between modernists and revivalist Protestants split the country?
A. B. -C.
The Scopes Trial
Know: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), John T. Scopes, Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan 22. Why was the Scopes Trial marked as one of the most religious controversies in America?
A. B. C.
-The “ Noble Experiment. ”
Know: Speakeasies, the “mob”, the “wets”, 18th amendment, 21st amendment
23. How did the issue of prohibition of alcohol split the modernists and fundamentalists?
A. B. C.
-Harlem Renaissance
Know: Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Augusta Savage, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. Du Bois, The Weary Blues
24. How did the Harlem Renaissance help blacks reclaim their cultural identity in America? A.
B. C.
-Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Know: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Marcus Garvey, Black Star Line
25. Why did Marcus Garvey promote black separatism instead of trying to reach complete racial equality in America?
A. B. C.
-Culture Wars: The Election of 1928
Know: Alfred E. Smith, Herbert Hoover, “Solid South”
26. How did republicans break thought the “Solid South”, what is the significance of this victory? A.
B. C.
-The Great Crash
Know: business cycle, “Black Thursday”, “Black Tuesday”
27. Describe the events that lead up to the depression, what role did surplus play in the depression? A.
B. C.
-The Financial Panic Becomes a Depression Know: wage cuts, self-perpetuating
28. How did American’s respond to the depression, did their actions improve or worsen the depression?
A. B. C.
-The Worldwide Depression
Know: Hawley-Smoot Tariff, “gold standard”,
29. What impact did American recession have on the economies of European countries? A.
B. C.
-Herbert Hoover Responds
Know: voluntarism, The Revenue Act of 1932, “American way”
30. What were Hoover’s actions in response to the declining economy, did the “American way” do more harm then good?
B. C.
-The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Know: Reconstruction Finance Corporation, pump priming, 31. Explain why the RFC failed in its goal of pump priming.
A. B. C.
-Rising Discontent
Know: Hoovervilles, Hoover blankets, Farm Holiday Association, Bonus Army 32. Describe the rising discontent and government response to the discontent.
A. B. C.
-The 1932 Election
Know: self-made man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
33. Communism and Socialism have never had a strong hold in America even in its toughest of times; discuss possible reasons for this occurrence.
A. B. C.
