History Chapter 20

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In marriage, according to advertisements in the 1920s, women were expected to find happiness and freedom within the home, especially in the use of new labor-saving appliances.
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true
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The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity.
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True
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Who won the presidential election of 1928?
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Herbert Hoover
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Women's freedom in the 1920s was characterized by unapologetic use of birth control methods such as the diaphragm.
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True
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Herbert Hoover preferred "associational action" to government intervention in directing regulatory and welfare policies.
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True
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An attorney renowned for his contributions to the causes of labor, racial equality, and civil liberties was:
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Clarence Darrow
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A consumer culture in which the purchase of consumer goods (even if this meant going into debt) came increasingly to replace thrift and self-denial, which had earlier characterized notions of good character.
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True
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Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre?
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Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti
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The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was:
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Los Angeles, California.
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President Warren G. Harding died suddenly of a heart attack in 1923.
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True
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Remarkably, the stock market crash and subsequent Depression did little to diminish popular reverence for big business.
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False
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Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s.
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True
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In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a "clear and present danger"?
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Schenck v. U.S.
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Which of the following was not a common means of survival for out-of-work Americans during the opening years of the Great Depression?
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drawing federal unemployment benefits
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The politics of the 1920s was principally dominated by the Republican Party.
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True
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The open shop—a work place free of unions (except, in some cases, "company unions") and free of government regulation—was part of the employer-backed:
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American Plan.
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American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.
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True
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In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution?
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the Scopes Trial
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.
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True
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On October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, more than $10 billion in market value vanished in a sharp stock market downturn.
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True
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Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
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False
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The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called:
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the Harlem Renaissance.
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The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was:
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the Equal Rights Amendment.
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The 1920s—prior to October 1929—saw a sharp decline in the American economy.
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False
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Coolidge were very similar in personality, but very different in political outlook.
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False
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In 1925, John Scopes, a public schoolteacher in Tennessee, was convicted of violating the state's law against the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
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True
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The anti-black, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic organization that claimed over 3 million members by the mid-1920s was:
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the Ku Klux Klan.
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Herbert Hoover victory over Alfred E. Smith; stock market crash; Hawley-Smoot tariff; creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did all of the following except:
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offered direct relief to the unemployed.
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Which of the following was not an underlying cause of the stock market crash of 1929?
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Runaway inflation triggered by high union wages had undermined prosperity.
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Farmers experienced booming profits during the 1920s.
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False
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Who said, "the chief business of the American people is business"?
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Calvin Coolidge
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As real workers' wages rose by 25 percent in the period between 1922 and 1929, the sharply unequal distribution of wealth that characterized the nineteenth-century United States gave way increasingly to an equal distribution of wealth.
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False
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By 1932, one-quarter of the U.S. labor force could not find work.
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False
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Which was not a consumer good in the 1920s?
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televisions
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By 1929, three-quarters of American households had washing machines.
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False
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis were proponents of civil liberties.
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True
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Over 100 million records were sold each year during the 1920s.
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True
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Who was the first cabinet member in American history to be convicted of a felony—for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?
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Albert Fall
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The rights an individual may assert even against democratic majorities—including freedom of speech—are called "civil liberties."
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True
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In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.
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True
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During the 1920s, as sociologists Robert and Helen Lyndon found in Middletown, elections were lively centers of public attention, much as they had been in the nineteenth century.
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False
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In 1917, 1921, and again in 1924, European immigration was increasingly curtailed by federal law.
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True
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Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression that began in October 1929?
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drastic tariff reductions
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Florence Kelley was ecstatic when the United States Supreme Court repudiated Mueller v. Oregon in 1923.
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False
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During the 1920s (up until 1929), while inflation and war reparations payments crippled the German economy, and unemployment remained high in Great Britain, the U.S. economy boomed.
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True
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During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?
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fundamentalists
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Comparatively high wages and efficient mass production characterized the American economy of the 1920s.
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True
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President Hoover and his secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon, took quick, decisive action to curtail the economic downturn that began in October 1929.
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False
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Production of the automobile in the 1920s:
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tripled
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Nearly a million African-Americans migrated from the American South during the 1920s.
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True
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Al Smith, the Catholic governor of New York, ran as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928, but lost the election.
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True
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American women overwhelmingly supported the Equal Rights Amendment; American men overwhelmingly opposed it.
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False
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During the 1920s, the United States government showed little interest in world affairs.
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False
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In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest 5 percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom:
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60 percent.
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Quick action by President Hoover's administration kept millions of American families from losing their life savings, when, in the early 1930s, hundreds of banks across the United States failed.
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False
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By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.
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True
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Which of the following was not a part of the Republican political perspective during the 1920s?
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Government regulation of personal behavior does more harm than good.
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Although suppression of free speech remained commonplace in the 1920s, a commitment to civil liberties was slowly finding its way into judicial doctrine.
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True
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Consumerism was a principal component of the American character in the 1920s.
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True
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Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to:
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normalcy.
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Which of the following was not an important cultural trend in 1920s America?
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a growing respect for newly arrived immigrants
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.
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True
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On October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, more than $10 billion in market value vanished in a sharp stock market downturn.
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True
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Jack Dempsey made the first solo flight across the Atlantic.
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False
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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By 1929, the United States produced more than 40 percent of the world's manufactured goods.
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True
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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In the three years after 1929, gross domestic production fell by one-third in the United States.
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True
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The 1922 self-imposed guidelines in the film industry that prohibited depicting adultery, nudity, and long kisses, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light was called:
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the Hays Code.