THE TWENTIES with Bill Moyers

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

Automobile

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

Roaring 20s

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

True

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

Women’s bodies came into view

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

Charleston

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

True

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

Flappers

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

18^th Amendment - Prohibition

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

False

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?

Movies/motion pictures

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

Rudolph Valentino

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

NO

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

Charles Lindberg

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

World War I/The Great War

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

Automobile & Assembly Line

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.

True

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

False

18. In what year did the stock market crash?

1929

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.

True

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

Republican

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.

True

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

Teapot Dome

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

Calvin Coolidge

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

Herbert Hoover

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

His Catholicism

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

Stock Market Crash

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

Nativism

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

Union/Labor

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

Red Scare

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

They were anarchists

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

Scopes Trial/Monkey Trial

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.

True

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.

True

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.

True