APUSH Name:20 Questions Date:Ch. 23 - “The Twenties, 1920-1929” Hr.:

Directions: Answer the following questions while reading your textbook, Out of Many. You may also use the “world-wide-web” (sorry couldn’t resist) to help you.

1. Why might Hollywood’s version of life create a negative reaction among many with traditional attitudes in the 1920s?

2. Who were Alfred P. Sloan and Owen D. Young, and what did they do that makes them significant?

3. What does oligopoly mean, and if that was the economic norm in the US in the 1920s, then did the United States have a laissez-faire capitalist system? Explain.

4. Why were the years from 1914 to 1919 golden years for the American farmer, and the 1920s a period of declining fortunes?

5. What were the McNary-Haugen bills, what happened to them, and why?

6. The 1920s have a reputation for being an age or prosperity. Was it an age of prosperity for all? Compare and contrast the experience of the corporations, workers, and farmers.

7. How did movies redefine the ideal of the “good life”? Did this change the United States? Explain.

8. What was the effect of advertising when advertising agencies began to use psychology and the language of psychology in the 1920s?

9. Was there a new morality i the 1920s? Explain.

10. What was the effect of Prohibition on society, both in the short term and the long term?

11.What were the primary goals of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s? Was it motivated primarily by racism or by cultural conservatism? Explain.

12. Why was the Scopes Trial of the 1925 also known as the “monkey trial”?

13. What was Calvin Coolidge’s philosophy of government? Was his attitude toward officials such as Andrew Mellon a good one for a person in Coolidge’s position? Explain.

14. What was the effect of the consolidation movement of the 1920s on society’s wealth and its distribution? Was wealth more evenly distributed than it had been during the progressive era?

15. What does being a creditor nation mean, and how and why did the United States become a creditor nation? Is it one now?

16. What did the Dawes Plan of 1924 provide? What does it say about the United States’ demand that the Allies pay back their wartime loans from the United States.

17. What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and what does it say about United States attitudes toward international affairs? Was it an expression of isolationism, naivete, morality, or something else?

18. The League of Women Voters is said to have favored “politicized domesticity.” What is that? What would it advocate?

19. What does LULAC stand for? Describe this group.

20. “The United States in the 1920s was an urban civilization.” do you agree? What is the evidence for and against this statement in economics, culture, society, politics, and intellectual life?