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Chapter 21: The Promise of Consumer Culture: The 1920s
Multiple-Choice Questions
Multiple-Choice Questions
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This activity contains 10 questions.
The founder of the radical National Women's Party who launched the campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment was:
Jeanette Rankin.
Adelina Otero Warren.
Jane Addams.
Alice Paul.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
The enforcement act for the 18
th
amendment (prohibition) was:
the Adamson Act.
the Taft-Hartley Act.
the Wagner Act.
the Clayton Act.
the Volstead Act.
The Italian anarchists whose murder trial highlighted the nativism of the 1920s were:
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Johnson and Reid.
the Rosenburgs.
Lindbergh and Earhart.
Gompers and Powderly.
The black nationalist founder of the United Negro Improvement Association was:
Ossian Sweet.
WEB Du Bois.
A. Philip Randolph.
Langston Hughes.
Marcus Garvey.
The company that mass-produced the first portable radios in the 1920s was:
Motorola.
Ford Motor Company.
Micheaux Corporation.
Zenith.
Radio Corporation of America (RCA).
Henry Ford may have revolutionized the auto industry but he had intense competition from ___________ and his General Motors Corporation.
Oscar Micheaux
Charles Lindbergh
Henry Kaiser
Jay Gould
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
In his book,
The Rising Tide of Color
, Lothrop Stoddard predicted:
the demise of organized religion.
the election of the first black president.
World War II.
the triumph of Darwinism in the classroom.
a coming race war.
The Scopes-Monkey Trial pitted Christian fundamentalism and it spokesman, William Jennings Bryan, against ________________ and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Clarence Darrow
WEB Du Bois
Woodrow Wilson
Walter White
Charles S. Johnson
The most serious political scandal of the Harding presidency was the:
Whiskey Ring scandal.
Harry Daugherty affair.
Teapot Dome scandal.
Veterans Bureau scandal.
Credit Mobilier scandal.
"Black Tuesday" refers to the day:
the day Sacco and Vanzetti were put to death.
the day the Federal Reserve decreased the money supply.
the stock market crashed.
the day of the Tulsa race riots.
the day Henry Ford's Model A first rolled off the assembly-line.
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