Chapter 22: A Clash of Cultures, 1920–1929
CORE OBJECTIVES
1. Assess the impact of the consumer culture that emerged in America during the 1920s, and
TRUE/FALSE
1. The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular,
rural America.
2. Construction companies greatly benefited from an economic boom in the 1920s.
3. The concept of mass culture denotes Americans seeing, hearing, reading, and watching the
same advertisements, magazines, radio programs, and movies.
4. Spectator sports contributed to the rise of mass culture in the 1920s.
5. Many people of all ages and ethnicities enjoyed jazz music.
6. The Harlem Renaissance was partially a result of the Great Migration.
7. The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial
discrimination.
8. During the 1920s, the ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist
artists to try new techniques.
9. The culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created, not copied.
10. Many modernists considered being completely misunderstood by their audience to be an
honor.
11. A reactionary movement characterized by anti-immigrant sentiment is known as Nativism.
12. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.
13. The Scopes “monkey trial” sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in
Tennessee.
14. With the Republicans in control of the federal government, progressivism disappeared in the
1920s.
15. As president, Warren G. Harding was actually more progressive than Woodrow Wilson in
his attitudes and policies toward African Americans.
16. Although Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt
administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official
wrongdoing.
17. Herbert Hoover was celebrated for his ability to increase industrial efficiency.
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. In the twentieth century, __________ replaced the nineteenth century’s ____________-
based economy.
a. trains; car
b. consumer goods; agriculture
c. farming; industrial
d. wartime manufacturing; industrial
e. money management; advertising
2. What helped drive the mass production of the 1920s?
a. An economic downturn
b. A new system of values celebrating hard work
c. Effective marketing tactics
d. The need for the production of weapons during wartime
e. The shrinking middle class
3. Which of the following statements about the American aviation industry in the late 1920s is
accurate?
a. The aviation industry grew far less prominent because combat planes were no longer
needed.
b. The United States did not yet have its own aviation industry and still relied on European
planes.
c. The federal government subsidized the aviation industry to help promote it as a new
form of transportation.
d. The Lindbergh flights made the American public far more disapproving of the aviation
industry.
e. Amelia Earhart built and flew the world’s first airplane, which immediately launched
the aviation industry.
4. According to your textbook, what was the most significant economic and social
development of the early twentieth century?
a. The airplane
b. The radio
c. The movie theater
d. The automobile
e. The suburbs
5. Ford’s Highland Park plant revolutionized the industrial process by
a. increasing car prices.
b. creating a moving assembly line method.
c. making workers’ tasks highly engaging.
d. making cars highly customizable, including by color.
e. decreasing the need for road construction.
6. In addition to the nickname “the Roaring Twenties,” the 1920s have also been labeled the
a. Great Depression.
b. Greatest Generation.
c. Jazz Age.
d. Anything Goes Age.
e. Age of Welfare Capitalism.
7. One of the areas most prone to experiencing a revolution in manners and morals in the
1920s was
a. tenements.
b. government housing.
c. agrarian societies.
d. college campuses.
e. small towns.
8. Who was the founder of psychoanalysis and wrote books resulting in increasingly bold
discussions about sex?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Augusta Savage
d. F. Scott Fitzgerald
e. Gertrude Stein
9. Women in the 1920s who rebelled against conventional dress, hairstyles, and what was
considered to be “ladylike” were commonly called
a. hussies.
b. birds.
c. broads.
d. flappers.
e. zeldas.
10. Which of the following statements about women in the 1920s is accurate.
a. Most women were flappers and became actively involved in the women’s movement.
b. The number of college-educated women who pursued careers outside the home greatly
increased.
c. The majority of women who worked outside the home moved into salaried professional
roles rather than those with hourly wages.
d. Many remained full-time wives or mothers, in part due to the conservative political
mood of the time.
e. The consumer culture of the time resulted in a decrease in new, related jobs for women.
11. Thanks to the ____________, African Americans saw greater acceptance and political
rights during the 1920s in the North.
a. Thirteenth Amendment
b. Prohibition
c. Immigration Act of 1924
d. Great Migration
e. Sacco and Vanzetti case
12. The United States’ first self-conscious African American literary and artistic movement is
known as the
a. Roaring Twenties.
b. Harlem Renaissance.
c. Jazz Age.
d. Impressionist Period.
e. Manhattan Movement.
13. Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, who W. E. B. Du
Bois called the “most dangerous enemy of the Negro race”?
a. Marcus Garvey
b. Booker T. Washington
c. James Weldon Johnson
d. Alfred E. Smith
e. Warren Harding
14. In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled against Oklahoma’s efforts to deny African Americans
voting rights. Which court case was this?
a. Dred Scott v. Sanford
b. Guinn v. United States
c. Baker v. Carr
d. Smith v. Allwright
e. Gore v. Vidal
15. Intellectuals and artists who believed that the twentieth century was the turning point in
human development were known as
a. flappers.
b. beatniks.
c. jazzers.
d. modernists.
e. humanists.
16. Einstein’s theories in the early twentieth century revolutionized science by
a. revealing that all things are static and unchanging.
b. showing that there are no absolute standards in the world.
c. illustrating that space, time, matter, and energy are distinct and independent.
d. discovering the concept of gravity.
e. arguing that the theory of relativity was incompatible with modernism.
17. The popular type of art that appeared in the early 1920s was known as
a. Impressionistic.
b. Baroque.
c. Watercolor.
d. Modernism.
e. Abstract.
18. Why was the Armory Show of 1913 significant?
a. It was a sensation that caused modern art to become one of the U.S.’s favorite subjects
of debate.
b. It exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal that overshadowed Harding’s presidency to the
public.
c. It revealed that there was only an audience for modernist art in Europe, practically
ending the movement in the United States.
d. It was an effective demonstration of black nationalism and racial solidarity that went
against Garveyism.
e. It for the first time presented the idea of an accessible “real” world that could be
explained by science and easily observed.
19. Those who came of age during the 1920s are known as
a. the Generation X.
b. the Baby Boom Generation.
c. the Lost Generation.
d. War Childs.
e. the New Generation.