Chapter 20

Question 1

What caused the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Speculation in the Stock Market

Question 2

What belief about the return of Christ was a rising influence in American Christianity the 20s?

Accepted Answer

formed their own denomination.

Question 3

What tragic day clearly marked the end of the "roaring" twenties?

Accepted Answer

Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929

Question 4

What type of credit agreement is paid monthly or quarterly?

Accepted Answer

Installment

Question 5

Advertisements during the 1920s encouraged greed and envy

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 6

What caused the Depression

Accepted Answer

Losses on loans to Europe

Question 7

What is the term for belief in a set of doctrines that no one can deny and remain a Christian?

Accepted Answer

Fundamentalism

Question 8

What major effect did automobiles have on American society in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

gave rise to the suburbs.

Question 9

Which president's administration was marred by scandal?

Accepted Answer

Warren G. Harding

Question 10

What became the major medium of news and entertainment during the 20s?

Accepted Answer

radio

Question 11

What caused the Depression

Accepted Answer

Foreign markets closing through high tariffs

Question 12

Which president's popularity lasted throughout his administration?

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 13

The Ku Klux Klan advocated immorality and bootlegging.

Accepted Answer

no

Question 14

Hoover predicted poverty would be eliminated

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 15

All three president who took office during the 20s were Republicans

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 16

Which occupational group experienced hard times throughout the 20's?

Accepted Answer

farmers

Question 17

40% of the Klan's membership was in the South.

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 18

The Germans spent most of their US loans on

Accepted Answer

paying reparations

Question 19

What was the main point of disagreement in the Fundamentalist Modernist controversy

Accepted Answer

doctrine

Question 20

What is called when you buy low and expect to sell high?

Accepted Answer

speculation

Question 21

What method did speculators use to purchase stock without risking much of their own money?

Accepted Answer

buying on the margin

Question 22

Fundamentalists won the Scopes trial but lost the publicity battle

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 23

What was the theme of Harding's presidential campaign?

Accepted Answer

a return to normalcy

Question 24

Why was Japan offended by the Washington Naval Conference?

Accepted Answer

Because if was not recognized as equal to the US

Question 25

The Washington Naval Conference limited the production of all warships,

Accepted Answer

no

Question 26

When did the American economy go bad?

Accepted Answer

Almost immediately after the Great War

Question 27

What was the first commercial radio station

Accepted Answer

KDKA

Question 28

What was the main theme of America's foreign policy during the 20's?

Accepted Answer

isolationsim

Question 29

What demand by America hindered Europe's recovery after World War I?

Accepted Answer

payment of Allied war debts

Question 30

What important series of essays was sponsored in 1910 to defend key Christian doctrine

Accepted Answer

The Fundamentalist

Question 31

In what year did the stock market crash, sparking the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 32

Name 4 men whose philosophical /scientific theories helped corrupt the moral ideas of the 20s.

Accepted Answer

Darwin, Marx, Einstein, Freud

Question 33

Only the rich could afford electrial applicances in the 1920s

Accepted Answer

no

Question 34

What did Anarchists cause soon after the Great War?

Accepted Answer

The Red Scare

Question 35

Which country's economy was in the best shape following World War I?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 36

Protectionism proved to be the best economic solution that plagued the world after world war I

Accepted Answer

no

Question 37

Which country was offended by the Washington Naval Conference

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 38

During the 1920s, the most severe prejudice was against blacks and

Accepted Answer

immigrants

Question 39

The rise in stock prices reflected an amazing increase in productivity in industries?

Accepted Answer

No

Question 40

Al Capone was convicted and sentence to jail for income tax evasion.

Accepted Answer

yex

Question 41

What controversy split many northern denominations during the 20s?

Accepted Answer

The Fundamentalist/Modernist Controversy

Question 42

By the end of the 1920s most Americans went to the movies weekly.

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 43

Friviouls fads, such as flagpole sitting, became popular during the 1920s.

Accepted Answer

yes

Question 44

The US used its military to enforce the Kellogg Briand Pact

Accepted Answer

no

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