Question 1

Who was sentenced to death in a controversial criminal trial?

Accepted Answer

Nicola Sacco

Question 2

The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

Accepted Answer

demonstrated how the Red Scare extended into the 1920s.

Question 3

What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?

Accepted Answer

business

Question 4

The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of:

Accepted Answer

automobiles.

Question 5

During the 1920s, American multinational corporations:

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extended their reach throughout the world.

Question 6

During the 1920s, consumer goods:

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were frequently purchased on credit

Question 7

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

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helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.

Question 8

During the 1920s

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an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty.

Question 9

Agriculture in the 1920s

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enjoyed its golden age

Question 10

Labor unions lost members in the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

some corporations began to provide employees with pensions and medical insurance.

Question 11

The Equal Rights Amendment

Accepted Answer

proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex

Question 12

For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:

Accepted Answer

the right to choose her lifestyle.

Question 13

Which would NOT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?

Accepted Answer

advocated temperance

Question 14

In their 1929 study, Middletown, Robert and Helen Lynd:

Accepted Answer

argued that leisure activities and consumption had replaced political involvement.

Question 15

President Harding's call for a return to normalcy meant:

Accepted Answer

a call for the regular order of things, without excessive reform

Question 16

The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

Accepted Answer

the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.

Question 17

All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom

Question 18

The Scopes trial illustrated a divide between:

Accepted Answer

modernism and fundamentalism

Question 19

The Scopes trial of 1925:

Accepted Answer

pitted creationists against evolutionists.

Question 20

Many forces predisposed Ku Klux Klan members to accept the group's exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Coolidge's economic policies.

Question 21

The Ku Klux Klan

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flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the North and West.

Question 22

The 1924 Immigration Act:

Accepted Answer

set quotas that favored immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

Question 23

Besides work and school, the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920s were

Accepted Answer

dance halls, department stores, and movie theaters.

Question 24

Cultural pluralism

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described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.

Question 25

Which city was considered the capital of black America?

Accepted Answer

Harlem

Question 26

The Harlem Renaissance

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included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

Question 27

Which issue became the focus of the 1928 presidential race?

Accepted Answer

the fact that Alfred Smith was Catholic

Question 28

In 1928, Herbert Hoover:

Accepted Answer

won the presidency, primarily because of his sterling reputation and the general, apparent prosperity of the nation.

Question 29

All of the following statements about the 1924 Immigration Act are true EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

the 1924 Immigration Act sought to ensure that more immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe than from northern and western Europe.

Question 30

All of the following are examples of economic foreign policy designed to improve American business EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

rejecting the League of Nations.

Question 31

During the Scopes trial, Clarence Darrow, the defense lawyer, questioned whom as a supposedly expert witness about the Bible?

Accepted Answer

William Jennings Bryan

Question 32

The flapper:

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epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.

Question 33

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:

Accepted Answer

crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s.

Question 34

Effects of the auto industry's growth included all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

reducing the use of assembly-line production

Question 35

DuPont emerged as a powerful corporation in the:

Accepted Answer

chemical industry

Question 36

Innovations in the movie industry of the 1920s included all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

using the mass growth of commercial television to promote films

Question 37

During the Harding administration, the Supreme Court:

Accepted Answer

became substantially more pro-buisness

Question 38

The growth of radio and other mass media in the 1920s produced:

Accepted Answer

a national culture

Question 39

Some members of the Lost Generation

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created famous jazz paintings

Question 40

Who was not a celebrity of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 41

Banned in Boston referred to

Accepted Answer

a book ban in the city, including books by ernest hemingway

Question 42

The Red Scare was an

Accepted Answer

anti-organized labor crusade after the war disguised as being anti-communist

Question 43

Robert La Follette ran for president in 1924,

Accepted Answer

as a progressive part canidate

Question 44

There were many forces that predisposed potential Ku Klux Klan members to accept its exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following except the

Accepted Answer

the birth of the Harlem Renaissance

Question 45

Fundamentalism

Accepted Answer

Anti-modernist protestant movement early 20th century proclaiming the liberal truth of the Bible

Question 46

Illegal alien

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a person in the country unlawfully

Question 47

What is the farmers plight?

Accepted Answer

Supply and demand lowered income resulting in the farmers losing their land

Question 48

In Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court:

Accepted Answer

argued that bans on dangerous speech were constitutional

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