American's largest industry in the 1920s was

a. oil.

b. cars.

c. insurance.

d. railroads.

The liberal New York governor defeated by Hoover in 1928 was

a. Al Smith.

b. Calvin coolidge.

c. Mario Cuomo.

D. Albert Fall.

a. A l Smith.

When calvin Coolidge sasid '' the business of American is business, '' he meant

a. government should nationalize corporations.

b. corporate taxes should be increased.

c. Mario Curomo.

d. Albert Fall.

The Teapot Dome candal Concerned

a. bribery of a cabinet officer.

b. building contracts in the Justice Department.

c. Illegal wiretapping.

d. harding's alleged mistress.

The gratest candal of the hard ing administraction was

a. Watergate.

b. Sacco and Vanzetti.

c. Teapot Dome.

d. the great Depression.

For most people , the 1920s was atime of

a. depression.

b.international tension.

c.prosperity.

d. great political leadership

All of the following were government policies during the 1920s execept.

a. high tariff rates.

b. low taxes ont he rich.

c.overly extended credit.

d. tight corporate regulation.

Andrew Mellon, the secretary of the trasury during the 1920s, practiced the ''trickle down''theory of economics by

a. imposing market quotas on American agriculture.

b. securing lower taxes on the rich.

c. approving high interest rates on loans.

d.urging regulation of bands and railroads.

The progressive leader of the 1920a qA

a. Robert La Bollette.

b. calvin coolidge.

c. Herbgert Hoover.

d. Andrew mellon.

During the Harding administration, a major scandal emerged in the

a. Department of Indian Affairs.

b. Veterans's Affairs Bureau.

c. Department of Agriculture.

d.Department of commerce.

What famous case represented the nativism of the 1920s?

a. the Rosenberg trial

b. the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

c. Plessy v. Ferguson

d. Brown v. The Board of Education

b.

Which of the following was not responsible fo rthe loosening of sexual attitudes in the 1920s

a the authomobile

b. William Bryan

c. books by Freud

d. margaret sanger

The principle architect of President Coolidge's economic policy was

a. Andrw Mellon.

b. John Scopes.

c. Charles Lindbergh.

d.Albert Fall.

The federal government's tax policies in the 1920s aimed at ding all the following except

a reducing the taxes of the weatlthy

b. encouraging savings.

reducing the taxes of big corporations.

d. encouraging spending.

The president ial candidate who used the slogan ''a return to normalcy'' was

a. Herbert Hoover.

b. Franklin d. roosevelt.

c. Woodrow wilson.

d Warren Harding.

d.

President Wilson's attorney general who contributed to the Red Scare in American in 1919 was

a. herbert Hoover.

b. J. Edgar Hoover.

c. A. Mitchell Palmer.

d. Robert La follette.

The airplane was first flown by

a. Henry ford.

b.Charles Lindbergh.

c. Wibur Wright.

d. Thomas Edison.

The street in New york that vecame famouse for adavertising agencies in the 1920s was

a. madison Avenue.

b.Broadway

c. 22nd Street.

d.Wall Street.

The first '' talking'' motion picture was the 1927 classic

a. The Great Train Robbery.

b.The Jazz Singer.

c.The Birth of a Nation.

d. Gone With The Wind.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

a. founded general Motors.

b. established the National Broadcasting Corporation.

c. wrote about scientific management and production.

d. wrote The Great Train Robbery

The woman who led the fight for the E.R.A. legal equality ofr women in the 1920s was

a. Alice Paul.

b.Susan B. Anthony.

c. Margaret Sanger.

d Emma Goldman.

A black leader of the 1920s who spoke about black pride and who advocated that Afridcan -Americans consider returning to Africa was

a Billy Sunday.

b. Marcus Garvery.

c.Louis Armstrong.

d. Martin luther king.

One of the most famous evangelists of the 1920s was

a. Billy Sunday. 

b. Martin Luther King.

c. marcus Garvery.

d.George Herman Ruth.

The Equal Rights Amendment, first introduced in congress in 1923, called for

a. no racial discrimination.

b. no discrimination against immigrants.

c. the end of anti-semitism.

d. no sex discrimination.

Prohibition referred to

a. prohibiting African-Amerifcfans form having equal access.

b. the opposition to women's right.

c. the banning of alcohol.

d. prohibiting more inmmigrants.