Chapter 21 History Test

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

Who won the presidential election of 1928?

President who said, "The chief business of the American people is business"

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

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

a place to buy liquor illegally

Developer of the assembly line for mass production

Which of the following writers were not influential in the 1920s?

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

the illegal sale of liquor

President Harding's administration was filled with scandal because he allowed his friends to use government powers

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

What term describes the decade of 1920-1929?

The first automobiles were built shortly after World War I

Pilot of the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean

America's basic foreign policy in the 1920s

Inheritor of the impending fall from prosperity

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

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

Who promised a "return to normalcy" after the war?

Albert B. Fall was infamous for his part in

What caused national fear during the Red Scare?

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

President who died in office

condition imposed by the Eighteenth Amendment

The Republican presidents of the 1920s generally believed that the federal government should not regulate farms

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

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

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

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

Which president was a member of the "Ohio Gang"?

In the 1920s, which one of the following items formed a more unified culture across the nation?

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

Who was President Harding's secretary of state?

Woman whose behavior and dress were shocking

The author of the book The Man Nobody Knows was