THE TWENTIES with Bill Moyers

1. The 1920's brought America into what "Age"?

2. What phrase is associated with this decade of the 1920's?

3. T or F The 20's were also a time of hard work, and prejudice against radicals, labor and blacks.

4. What happened for the first time in U.S. history concerning women in America?

5. What dance was the symbolic dance of the decade?

6. T or F In fashion, necklines plunged, and hemlines climbed?

7. What were women who smoked, drank, and wore fashionable clothing with long beads and short skirts called?

8. What government law/rule made drinking a crime?

9. T or F Every American abided by the restrictions of this law.

10. What emerged to provide us with the images of that era, which ignored the routine and ordinary and emphasized the novel and colorful, which shapes our images of the 20's?

11. Who was the male love god and sex symbol of the 20's?

12. Yes/No After listening to President Calvin Coolidge speak, do you think he could be elected President today?

13. Who flew a solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927?

14. What event spurred the advance of machines and the growing economy in America?

15. What did Henry Ford introduce in 1908 and 1910?

16. T or F When electricity reached just about every household, appliances were made and designed for women. Men did not share in the work of the household.

17. In what year did the stock market crash?

18. T or F A majority of Americans traded on margin in the stockmarket?

19. T or F From the recollections of the people interviewed, even the poor people didn’t realize they were poor, because their expectations were not as high (or unrealistic) as they are today.

20. What political party was in power during the 1920's?

21. T or F People believed Harding to be a good looking man but he was also guilty of infidelity and incompetent at his job.

22. What was the name of the largest scandal that rocked Harding's Administration?

23. What Republican President believed in a policy of laissez faire, meaning the government should interfere as little as possible with American business.

24. What man became a self made man and millionaire who won the presidency as a Republican in 1928?

25. Of the many issues, which caused governor of New York, Al Smith the most problems in his bid for the presidency in 1928?

26. What economic calamity occurred early in Hoover's administration in 1929?

27. What American doctrine was reborn as fear of communism, and hatred of Jews, Catholics, and Blacks grew, resulting in intolerance?

28. What movement practically collapsed during the 1920's?

29. What was the term for the great fear of communism that developed in the United States after WWI in 1919 and 1920?

30. Besides being Italian immigrants, what probably hurt the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti most?

31. What 1925 court case pitted supporters of evolution against supporters of creationism in Tennessee?

32. T or F Women could vote at this time, but they were still treated as second class citizens because they worked jobs during the day and resumed work "in their place" in the kitchen at night.

33. T or F Relation between the races had not changed much in the years following the Emancipation Proclamation as segregation persisted and lynching continued.

34. T or F The 1920's were a multifaceted time period in our nation's history, a much more complex time period than is sometimes portrayed in movies and film.