HIST 2620 Chapter 20 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers

HIST 2620 Chapter 20 | Verified with 100% Correct Answers The developing consumer culture emphasized the purchasing of goods, even if this meant going into debt, departing from the thrift and self-denial that had previously defined good character. True After World War I and the 1920s, the Progressives recognized that the public power could go grievously wrong, as in Prohibition. After the Immigration Act of 1924, a new category existed: illegal alien. True All of the following were addressed in the Johnson-Reed, or Immigration Act of 1924, except the exclusion of war veterans from Europe from becoming naturalized American citizens. American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929. True At the beginning of 1929, a majority of families had accumulated no savings. Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s. True By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios. True By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods. True By 1929, three-quarters of American households had washing machines. False By 1932, one-quarter of the U.S. labor force could not find work. True Charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions, the Immigration Act of 1924 created the Border Patrol. Consumerism was a principal component of the American character in the 1920s. True During the 1920s, New York bankers advanced billions of dollars to Germany to enable the country to meet its World War I reparations payments True During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined? fundamentalists During the 1920s, as sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd found in Middletown, elections were lively centers of public attention, much as they had been in the nineteenth century. False Edward Bernays, the "father" of modern public relations, masterminded a campaign to encourage women to smoke, calling cigarettes "torches of freedom." Farmers experienced booming profits during the 1920s. False Florence Kelley was ecstatic when the U.S. Supreme Court repudiated Mueller v. Oregon in 1923. False Herbert Hoover preferred "associational action" to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies. True In 1923, the Supreme Court declared that "white" was not a scientific concept at all, but part of "common speech, to be interpreted with the understanding of the common man," which scholars later called the "social construction" of True In 1924, Congress declared all Indians born in the United States to be American citizens. In 1924, Coolidge was unsuccessful in his reelection. False In 1924, Robert La Follette ran as a candidate of a new Progressive Party, which called for a reduced taxation of wealth and governmental ownership of the railroads. False In 1925, John Scopes, a public schoolteacher in Tennessee, was convicted of violating the state's law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. True In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution? the Scopes Trial In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party. True In a society increasingly knit together by mass culture and a consumer economy, most immigrants could escape the pull of assimilation. False In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest 5 percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom 60 percent. In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances. True In the spring of 1932, 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, and were driven away by federal soldiers led by Douglas MacArthur. In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States. True In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a "clear and present danger"? Schenck v. U.S. Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic. False Nearly a million African-Americans migrated from the American South during the 1920s.