Ch. 23

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America's return to a peacetime economy in 1920 and 1921 was marked by
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a 20 percent unemployment rate, the highest to date.
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By the early 1930s, unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by
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becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest.
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Who wrote the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, an example of Harlem Renaissance literature?
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Zora Neale Hurston
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For which group of Americans did authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis speak?
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Critics of American anti-intellectualism and materialism
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Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association urged black Americans in the 1920s to
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rediscover their African heritage and take pride in their culture and achievements.
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Which industry formed the keystone of the American economy in the 1920s?
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The automobile industry
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How did the Hoover administration respond to the World War I veterans who asked for the immediate payment of their pension or bonus?
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It ordered the U.S. army to forcibly evict them from their camp on the edge of Washington, D.C.
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One result of the loosening of the traditional bonds of community, religion, and family in the United States in the 1920s was
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the emergence of youth as a distinct social class with their own culture.
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What was the fundamental cause of the Great Depression in the United States?
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Problems in the American and international economies
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Who was responsible for the creation of "welfare capitalism" in the 1920s, and why did they use it?
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Businesses created welfare capitalism to encourage workers' loyalty to the company.
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In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented
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a challenge to women's traditional gender roles.
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What did President Hoover do to offer a solution to the human problems of the depression in 1929?
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He instituted a voluntary recovery plan, protective tariffs, and some government intervention, including public works projects and small federal loans to states.
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Which groups were hardest hit by the Great Depression?
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The unemployed, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers
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In its effort to create prosperity at home, the Harding administration supported
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high tariffs to protect American businesses.
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How did Americans respond to Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for president in 1928?
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As a symbol of all they feared—Catholicism, immigration, cities, and liberal attitudes
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What was Detroit's second largest industry during the 1920s?
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Illegal alcohol sales
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What did President Calvin Coolidge's economic policy include?
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Reductions in government regulation of business