True or false (circle one): Toward the end of World War I an epidemic, named the Spanish flu, broke out and infected about one third of the world's population.
24) True or false (circle one): Toward the end of World War I an epidemic, named the Spanish flu, broke out and infected about one third of the world's population.
25) All of the following are true of the economy of the 1920s except:
a) The bull market of the 1920s was part of a booming economy for much of the decade.
b) Credit cards, part of the burst of new credit possibilities for consumers, were used for buying stocks.
c) Wealth was used for speculation by wealthy investors gambling on risky stocks and derivatives.
d) Many railroads, coal industries, and farmers were in economic trouble by the end of the decade.
26) All of the following were true of women in the 1920s except:
a) They succeeded in getting an Equal Rights Amendment passed.
b) Some wanted protective legislation for women.
c) Many began wearing short skirts, short hair, and make-up.
d) Some began going out without chaperones.
27) All of the following were part of the "Roaring Twenties" except:
a) radios and electric curling irons
b) prohibition
c) the first automobiles
d) the new improvisational music, jazz, part of the Harlem Renaissance
28) True or false (circle one): Theories of scientists such as Freud, Einstein, and Heisenberg became part of people's discussions in which their ideas were over-simplified.
29) Rural reaction to the Roaring Twenties included __________________, i.e. prejudice toward immigrants, and the Scopes Trial in _____________ (year), during which fundamentalist Bible beliefs were pitted against Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
30) The conservative philosophy of government followed by presidents of the 1920s included all of the following ideas except:
a) strong central government
b) anti- immigration policy
c) top down economics
d) lower corporate taxation
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