American Republic BJU Chapter 21

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Al Capone

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

Biblical Christianity and moral values.

Question 3

developer of the assembly line for mass production

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Becoming materially prosperous

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Eliot

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

inheritor of impending fall from prosperity

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Charlie Chaplin, Babe Ruth

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

condition imposed by Eighteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

prohibition

Question 11

The first automobiles were built shortly after World War I.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Sacco and Vanzetti.

Question 13

The illegal sale of liquor

Accepted Answer

Bootlegging

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 15

Who won the 1928 election?

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 16

pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Clarence Darrow

Question 19

Prohibition was repealed because it did not bring any beneficial results

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Washington Naval Conference

Question 22

A woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

Accepted Answer

flappers

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

electricity

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

William Bryan

Question 25

The author of the book, The Man Nobody Knows was

Accepted Answer

Bruce Barton

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Radio

Question 27

president who died in office

Accepted Answer

Warren G Harding

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

Which president was involved with the Ohio Gang?

Accepted Answer

Harding

Question 30

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

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

America’s basic foreign policy in the 1920s

Accepted Answer

isolationism

Question 33

This is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.

Accepted Answer

Speakeasy

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact

Question 36

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

Accepted Answer

a lack of adequate food production on farms.

Question 37

What term describes the decade of 1920-1929?

Accepted Answer

The Roaring Twenties

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

communism

Question 39

Albert B. Fall was infamous for his part in

Accepted Answer

The Scopes Trial

Question 40

The scopes trial resulted in a confliction for teaching evolution

Accepted Answer

True

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American Republic BJU Chapter 21

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