THE TWENTIES with Bill Moyers
1. The 1920's brought America into what "Age"?
AUTOMOBILE/MODERNISM
2. What phrase is associated with this decade of
the 1920's?
ROARING
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 made drinking a crime?
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
11. Who was the male love god and sex symbol of the
20's?
RUDOLPH VALENTINO
12. Who flew a solo flight across the Atlantic in
1927?
CHARLES LINDHBERG
13. What event spurred the advance of machines and
the growing economy in America?
THE GREAT WAR/WWI
14. What did Henry Ford introduce in 1908 and 1910?
MODEL T AND THE ASSEMBLY LINE
15. 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
16. T or F A majority of Americans traded on margin
in the stockmarket?
FALSE
17. In what year did the stock market crash?
1929
18. What political party was in power during the
end of the 1920's?
REPUBLICANS
19. T or F People believed Harding to be a good looking
man but he was also guilty of infidelity and incompetant at his job.
TRUE
20. What was the name of the largest scandal that
rocked Harding's Administration?
TEAPOT DOME
21. What Republican President believed in a policy
of laissez faire, meaning the government should interfere as little as possible with
American business.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
22. What man became a self made man and millionaire
who won the presidency as a Republican in 1928?
HERBERT HOOVER
23. What issue caused governor of New York, Al Smith
not get the majority of the popular vote for the presidency in 1928?
HIS CATHOLICISM
24. What economic callamity occured early in Hoover's
administration in 1929?
GREAT DEPRESSION
25. What American doctrine was reborn as fear of communism, and hatred of Jews, Catholics,
and Blacks grew, resulting in intolerance?
NATIVISM
26. What movement practically collapsed during the
1920's?
UNION
27. What was the term for the great fear of communism that developed in the United
States after WWI?
RED SCARE
28. Besides being Italian immigrants, what probably hurt the cause of Sacco and Vanzetti
most?
RADICAL/ANARCHISTS
29. What 1925 court case pitted supporters of evolution against supporters of creationism
in Tennessee?
SCOPES TRIAL
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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