Which of the following presented the greatest challenges to the United States after World War I?
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The war brought to light the differences among Americans.
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African Americans who served in World War I returned home to find
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discrimination and race riots.
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Which of the following statements characterizes race relations in the aftermath of World War I?
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At least 120 blacks were killed in racial violence in the United States by 1919.
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In which of the following cities was the prosperous Greenwood district burned down in racial riots in 1921?
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Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Which of the following factors contributed to the incredible number of militant strikes that occurred during 1919?
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Employers tried to root out labor unions after the war.
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Which of the following politicians won tremendous political support during the strikes of 1919, when he claimed, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime"?
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Calvin Coolidge
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Welfare capitalism emerged in the 1920s in part to
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stop unionization.
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Which of the following statements characterizes the Red Scare of 1919-1921?
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A series of 1919 bombings led Americans to associate radical political groups with violence.
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Which prominent politician fanned fears of domestic radicalism after a bomb exploded outside his home in 1919?
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Mitchell Palmer
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Which of the following facts regarding Sacco and Vanzetti clearly biased the jury against them?
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They were communists.
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Which of the following statements describes the proceedings against Sacco and Vanzetti?
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Scholars still debate their guilt, but most agree that they did not receive a fair trial.
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Which of the following is true regarding the Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921?
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It was the first federally funded, health-care legislation.
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Why did the newly organized Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) come under attack in the 1920s?
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Socialist women were among its members.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterized women's political participation during the 1920s?
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Women did not vote as a bloc, as politicians had expected.
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Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to "normalcy," which meant
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he would be a common man in government rather than an intellectual.
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As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover
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believed that voluntary cooperation between government and business could replace regulation.
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Which major scandal in Harding's administration was named after the national oil reserves it involved?
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Teapot Dome
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Which of the following was one of Calvin Coolidge's political virtues at the time he became president after Harding's death in 1923?
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Austere morality, which contrasted with Harding's cronyism
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Which of the following occurred at the Democratic Party convention in 1924?
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Conflicts showed that the party was deeply split between rural and urban interests.
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Which of the following statements characterized U.S. foreign policy during the 1920s?
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The United States actively sought to facilitate American economic expansion abroad.
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During the 1920s, the U.S. military intervened in or occupied
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Nicaragua.
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The culture wars of the 1920s were due in part to
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the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration.
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Which of the following is correct about the Scopes trial?
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Clarence Darrow defended the right to teach evolution in schools.
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Which of the following statements characterizes the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925?
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The trial quickly became a media circus.
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The emergency immigration restrictions in 1921 were made more restrictive with the
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National Origins Act.
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How did the U.S. government change immigration restrictions during the 1920s?
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The National Origins Act set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census.
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The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Origins Act represented a resurgence of
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nativism.
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How did the rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s differ from its Reconstruction-era form?
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The group targeted Catholics and Jews as well as blacks.
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Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?
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He was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class.
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Which of the following statements characterizes the Republican victory in the 1928 election?
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Given America's prosperity, it was unlikely that any Democrat could have defeated Herbert Hoover.
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Which of the following concepts championed black racial pride and cultural identity in the 1920s?
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Harlem Renaissance
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Which of the following statements was true of the Harlem Renaissance?
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The most visible part of the Harlem Renaissance to most whites was jazz music.
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Which of the following describes 1920s jazz?
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Jazz represented a synthesis of African American music forms such as ragtime and the blues.
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The most celebrated jazz soloist of the 1920s was the trumpeter
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Louis Armstrong.
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The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) recommended that black Americans
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return to Africa to obtain the justice unavailable to them in the United States.
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What was the significance of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in the 1920s?
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It left a legacy of activism among working-class blacks.
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The growing pan-Africanism movement that began to emerge among blacks during the 1920s was spurred in part by
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black men's military service during World War I.
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Which of the following terms did American writer Gertrude Stein use to describe Americans who had experienced World War I firsthand?
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The Lost Generation
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Which of the following statements describes the American literary figures of the 1920s, such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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They rejected American materialism, complacency, and anti-intellectualism.
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Throughout the 1920s, the sector of the American economy in the worst shape was
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agriculture.
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Which of the following statements characterizes American business during the 1920s?
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The two hundred largest corporations controlled almost half of the national nonbanking wealth.
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Which of the following sectors of American society saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?
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Industrial output
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A major weakness of the 1920s economy was the
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unequal distribution of wealth.
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Which of the following industries drove the creation of American consumer culture in the 1920s?
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Advertising
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Which of the following statements characterizes consumer spending during the 1920s?
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Installment buying boosted consumerism.
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Which of the following statements describes the role of automobiles in the American economy of the 1920s?
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The auto industry played a major role in stimulating prosperity.
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The flapper, an icon of American culture, represented
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the emancipated woman of the 1920s.
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What was the outcome of the stock market crash of October 1929?
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Many middle-class Americans without stock investments lost their life savings when banks failed.
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How did American consumers respond to the economic situation in the early 1930s?
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Facing the possibility of hard times and unemployment, most Americans cut back.
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How did the Great Depression affect women's participation in the workforce in the early 1930s?
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Despite bans on women's employment, their workforce participation increased.
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