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Chapter 23 Reading Guide
MULTIPLE CHOICE. (1 Point Each)
1) By 1929, economic growth in the United States:
A) ensured the continuation of laissez-faire capitalism.
B) translated into a greater variety of products in the marketplace.
C) had created a large increase in the labor force and unions.
D) meant more opportunities for small businessmen and local producers.
E) had produced mergers so that 200 firms owned half of the corporate wealth.
1) _______
2) The Sheppard-Towner Act:
A) had almost unanimous support from women.
B) established the first federally funded program health-care program.
C) devised a system whereby doctors supervised health care for women in rural communities.
D) as a health-care program, had the AMA's support.
E) was passed to provide birth control to the poor.
2) _______
3) In the 1920s, Congress, under the influence of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon:
A) cut taxes for the very wealthy.
B) increased taxes on businesses.
C) continued the progressive taxation of Wilson.
D) raised taxes on personal income to pay off the war debt.
E) promoted a more equitable tax policy for all.
3) _______
4) The map of the election of 1928 shows that the:
A) Republican, Herbert Hoover, carried the states of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and
Pacific coast.
B) Socialist, Norman Thomas, carried about as many votes as Eugene V. Debs had in 1920.
C) Democrat, Al Smith, carried the agricultural states of the Midwest and Great Plains.
D) Democrat, Al Smith, carried most of the urban northeastern states.
E) Republican, Herbert Hoover, carried the southern Bible Belt states.
4) _______
5) On the issue of World War I war debts, by the 1930s the United States:
A) insisted that the Allies pay some of the debt.
B) had agreed that the Allies had paid in blood and to cancel the debt.
C) was demanding that the Allies pay the debt in full.
D) insisted that the Allies pay their full debt.
E) had arranged for Germany to escape its reparations payments.
5) _______
SHORT ANSWER. (2 Points Each)
6) Explain the difference between an open shop and a closed shop.
7) What was the effect on advertising when advertising agencies began to use psychology
and the language of psychology in the 1920s?
8) Name and explain two ways that the predominant attitude of the "lost generation" was
expressed by its writers.
9) "The Twenties were shaped basically by a clash of cultures modernist vs. traditional." Is
this statement true? Explain what happened in the 1920s and why people might make
this argument.
10) What were the primary goals of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s? Was it motivated
primarily by racism or by cultural conservatism? Explain.