Friday, March 9, 2012

Please help me with finishing a Jazz Age Test.?

Yeah... Help me with a test...

1 Warren G Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans desire to

a reform society

b become a world power

c return to normal life after the war

d repeal prohibition



2 Calvin Coolidge became president when

a he defeated warren g harding

b he defeated robert la follette

c warren g harding was assassinated

d when warren died in office



3 attorney general harry daughtry resigned in disgrace afer being investigated for taking bribes in exchange for allowing

a a private company to drill for oil on public lands

b someone to acquire a valuable german owned company seized during the war

c immunity to wealthy businessmen accused of insider trading

d two powerful corporations to merge.



4 Collidge believed that government should

a regulate business

b not interfere with business

c break up trusts

d become nvolved in social reform



5 Ford's system for making cars increased efficiency by

a reducing the number of car parts

b dividing the job into simple tasks

c training workers to do every task

d assigning a team to each car



6 In the 1920 young eople began to look for careers as

a entrepreneurs

b stockholders

c business owners

d managers in a corporate bureaucracy



7 Union declined during the 1920 in part because many corporations instituted

a cooperative indiviualism

b supply side economics

c sociological departments

d welfare capitalism



8 The ohio Gang was

a a powerful crime syndicate

b a group of notorious bank robbers

c a group of Coolidges friends

d a group of Hardings friends



9 In the teapot dome scandal, a government official received bribes for

a allowing private interests to lease lands containing US Navy oil reserves

b allowing private interests to drill for oil in a national park

c allowing lumber companies to cut trees in national forests

d promising immunity for businessmen who overcharged the US Navy



10 The result of the Dawes Plan was

a Europes deeper descent into debt

b Europes gradual economic recovery

c lower prices for European products sold in the US

d higher prices for European products sold in the US



True or False

11 Warren G Harding thought he lacked the intelligence to be president

12 In his policies Calvin Coolidge aligned himself and the government with big business

13 By the 1920 the automobile had become an accepted part of American life

14 By the 1920 the US was the dominant economic power in the world

15 Many people viewed the Sacco and Vanzetti case as an example of prejudice against people based on their ethnic origin and beliefs

16 Woodrow Wilson embraced eugenics which wanted to stop the breeding of the unfit or the inferior

17 The Sheik was the first talking picture

18 Louis Armstrong introduced an improvisational early form of Jazz

19 In the 1920 most african american voters in the north cast their votes for republicans, the party of Lincoln

20 Marcus Garvey preached a message of separation and independence from whites



THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!Please help me with finishing a Jazz Age Test.?
1 c return to normal life after the war

2 d when warren died in office

3 b someone to acquire a valuable german owned company seized during the war

4 b not interfere with business

5 b dividing the job into simple tasks

6 d managers in a corporate bureaucracy

7 d welfare capitalism

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