- Henry Ford "led the way" in industry by
Your answer:
pioneering a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to professionals in specialized divisions.
instituting worker-management teams to share decision making about production.
paying his workers high wages to encourage consumerism.
breaking labor unions and replacing them with industry "worker associations."
paying his workers low wages to increase the profit margin.
- Bruce Barton's The Man Nobody Knows was about
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Henry Ford, who was considered a secretive man.
Jesus Christ, as a managerial genius who organized the twelve apostles.
"the Common Man," whom advertisers would have to study in order to understand his needs and fantasies.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who had been destroyed by a smear campaign in the mainstream press.
Warren Harding, who was a political unknown when he ran for president.
- "Welfare capitalism" refers to
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corporations' provision of employee benefits in the hope of preventing the establishment of unions.
the high rate of unemployment in the 1920s, when many people had to go on welfare.
the trade-union philosophy that the welfare of the workers should be the first concern of capitalism.
federal massive subsidies provided to select government contractors.
none of these
- Which sector of the economy did not prosper in the 1920s?
Your answer:
manufacturing
agriculture
the "service" sector
financial services
new consumer goods
- The equal rights amendment advocated by Alice Paul and the National Woman's party
Your answer:
unified the feminist movement in the 1920s, which had become splintered after women won the vote.
attracted the support of young women, who looked up to the feminists for their civic idealism.
was supported by an alliance of professional women and labor activists.
turned out to be the deciding issue in the 1928 presidential election.
was opposed by many feminists.
- The 1920s was the first decade in which
Your answer:
farmers drove down agricultural prices by producing a surplus.
the majority of Americans worked in factories rather than on farms.
the majority of Americans lived in cities.
the majority of American farms had electricity.
the majority of Americans owned televisions.
- Housework in the 1920s
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was made easier for middle-class housewives because they were able to hire immigrant women and farm girls for household help.
was reduced in terms of hours and sheer physical effort thanks to electrification, store-bought clothing, and purchased food.
was "socialized" through cooperative apartments, commercial laundries, and other collective forms of housework.
increased because industrialization and crowded urban conditions made homes dirtier.
became simpler because air conditioning and electric heat made homes cleaner.
- The automobile affected American life by
Your answer:
giving young people freedom from parental oversight.
breaking down the isolation of rural life.
letting the prosperous move out to the suburbs, leaving the urban poor behind in the inner cities.
increasing mobility and headaches.
all of these
- The stereotype of the Jazz Age "flapper"
Your answer:
epitomized the rebelliousness of the youth culture of the 1920s.
found its greatest realization in the Harlem Renaissance.
was the "spiritual sister" of the suffragist since both suffragists and flappers supported feminist political action.
was the product of publicists and advertising agencies who were paid to hide the truth about "fast" women.
originated with a drawing by cartoonist Thomas Nast.
- Which three writers expressed hostility to the moralistic pieties of the old order and the business pieties of the new?
Your answer:
Bruce Barton, Theodore Dreiser, and Ernest Hemingway
H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, and Horatio Alger
William Jennings Bryan, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, and H. L. Mencken
- The United States immigration policy in 1924
Your answer:
restricted immigration from French Canada and Latin America.
was formulated to reduce the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.
limited Asian immigrants through the use of quotas.
introduced a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan by which Tokyo pledged to stop the emigration of Japanese laborers to America.
opened up all former restrictions on immigration to attract workers for the expanding economy.
- Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, advocated
Your answer:
that blacks return to Africa.
that blacks return to the rural South because northern migration had led only to the ghetto.
the integration of blacks into white society.
that blacks should focus on the acquisition of practical skills while temporarily accepting second-class status.
voter registration by blacks to exercise political power.
- The social philosophy of Herbert Hoover, as expounded in his book American Individualism,
Your answer:
exclusively favored big business.
saw unfettered competition as the life force of capitalism.
advocated a cooperative, socially responsible economic order shaped by the voluntary action of capitalist leaders.
advocated direct government intervention in the economy.
argued in favor of higher wages and higher personal income taxes.
- During the 1920s, the attitude of most Americans toward environmental issues was that
Your answer:
America's energy resources had limits and had to be conserved.
unchecked technology was dangerous.
political corruption was an inevitable result of government management of natural resources.
the nation was poisoning itself and had to stop.
pollution and vanishing wilderness were small prices to pay for material comforts.
- Which of the following statements accurately reflects trends during the 1920s regarding women in the work force?
Your answer:
With their new feeling of "liberation" gained during World War II, women made gigantic inroads into previously all-male professions.
The proportion of working women who were married rose by about 25%, with most of those women entering such traditionally "female" professions as nursing, school teaching, and librarianship.
The proportion of working women who were single rose by about 30%, as single women came to dominate teaching at the university level.
Now that the wartime emergency was over, married women returned home to their traditional roles as housewives and mothers.
none of these.