8 American Republic Chapter 21

America’s basic foreign policy in the 1920s

Harding’s administration was filled with scandal because he allowed his friends to use government powers for their gain.

The Red Scare was the fear that this would spread throughout the U.S.:

Prohibition was repealed because it did not bring any beneficial results

Who was brunt of much ridicule at the Scopes trial for his defense of biblical creation

Communists intended to spread their rule from Russia to other nations of the world.

Who won the 1928 election?

developer of the assembly line for mass production

What term describes the decade of 1920-1929?

condition imposed by Eighteenth Amendment

What lawyer defended the biology teacher accused of teaching evolution in Tennessee?

The scopes trial resulted in a confliction for teaching evolution

Prohibition went into affect in 1919 despite widespread disapproval and a long, bitter fight against the movement

The Republican presidents of the 1920s believed that the federal government should not regulate the farm economy.

Which of the following did the most to break down some regional characteristics of Americans to form a unified nation

What unrealistic agreement was made in 1928 to outlaw war and establish world peace?

This is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.

Following World War I blacks and immigrants received animosity of the workers they had replaced during the war

inheritor of impending fall from prosperity

president who died in office

This president promised a “return to normalcy” after years of war and progressivism.

The people of the 1920s generally had an interest in all of the following topics or issues EXCEPT

In the 1920s, the United States was most interested in which of the following priorities?

pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Name one of the writers whose work was influential in the 1920s.

Albert B. Fall was infamous for his part in

Which of the following were athletes and entertainers of the 1920s?

The common use of what power source did much to revolutionize the daily life of Americans during the 1920s?

The illegal sale of liquor

Which president was involved with the Ohio Gang?

Who was the famous Chicago crime boss during the 1920s?

A major court case related to the Red Scare was the one involving

The author of the book, The Man Nobody Knows was

What international agreement was made in an effort to reduce the Naval strength of the major powers?

A woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

The president who said "the chief business of the American people is business" was:

President Harding was impeached, found to be responsible for the Teapot Dome scandal, and imprisoned.

The automobile had a dramatic effect on American life, especially that of farm families.

The first automobiles were built shortly after World War I.

All of the following conditions were present in the mid-1920s EXCEPT