History 8 Ch. 21

Albert B. Fall was infamous for his part in

Who was the 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.

America’s basic foreign policy in the 1920s

The Scopes trial resulted in Scopes being convicted of teaching evolution.

inheritor of the impending fall from prosperity

The author of the book The Man Nobody Knows was

the illegal sale of liquor

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

president who said, “The chief business of the American people is business.”

Who was President Harding’s secretary of state?

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

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

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

The airplane was a major form of transportation for most Americans during the 1920s.

woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

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

Which of these items did the most to break down the regional characteristics of Americans to form a unified culture?

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

pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

The Volstead Act of 1919 outlawed any beverage that contained more than 0.5% alcohol content.

Who promised a “return to normalcy” after the war?

developer of the assembly line for mass production

The first automobiles were built shortly after World War I.

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

a place to buy liquor illegally

condition imposed by the Eighteenth Amendment

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

president who died in office

Which of these items did the most to break down the regional characteristics of Americans to form a unified culture?