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31 American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1919-1929

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American Pageant Chapter 31
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Question 1

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Responding to continuing upheavals in the postwar world order and to significant social changes that up-ended traditional American culture and values, most Americans in the 1920's did all of the following EXCEPT
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  • condemn un-American lifestyles
  • struggle to achieve economic prosperity
  • shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries
  • support severe restrictions on immigration

Question 2

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The "red scare" of early 1920s was set up by:
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  • the Sacco-Vanzetti case
  • the rise of Radical Industrial Workers of the World
  • the Bolshevik revolution in Russia
  • an influx of radical immigrants

Question 3

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How did the business sector use the red scare to its advantage in the 1920s?
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  • It cooperated with Federal and State Governments to destroy fledgling unions such as the IWW
  • It generally accepted the rights of the unions to organize and collectively bargain in order to gain labor peace
  • It secured passage of a federal law making most union-organizing activity illegal
  • Business people refused to hire any socialists, communists, or other workers advocating radical ideologies

Question 4

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Besides attacking minorities like Catholics, Blacks, and Jews, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s opposed contemporary cultural and social changes such as:
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  • Evolution and Birth Control
  • Prohibition and Higher Education
  • Automobiles and Airplanes
  • Patriotism and Immigration Restriction

Question 5

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The quota system established for immigration in 1920s was based partly on the idea that:
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  • America could accept the refugees created by war and revolution in Europe
  • Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe were superior to those from Southern and Eastern Europe
  • Immigration from Europe would be largely replaced by immigration from Asia
  • Priority in immigration would be based on family relations, profession, and education

Question 6

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Which of the following was most important in prompting Americans to support the Immigration Act of 1924?
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  • Increased migration of blacks to the North
  • A nativist belief that northern Europeans were culturally superior to the waves of Eastern and Southern Europeans who had arrived in America over the last forty years
  • A desire to abolish the quota system in the United States
  • A desire to halt immigration from Latin America

Question 7

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The separation of many American ethnic groups into separate neighborhood with their own distinct institutions, cultures, and values meant that:
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  • English was no longer the dominant language in U.S.
  • the U.S. was intolerant of ethnic differences
  • Catholics and Jews had a political base from which to gain the presidency
  • it was almost impossible to organize the American working class across ethnic and religious lives

Question 8

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Which of the following would a cultural pluralist such as Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, or Louis Brandeis NOT support
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  • An American melting-pot cultural ideology that advocated eliminating ethnic differences
  • Tighter legal restrictions on immigration from all parts of Europe
  • Greater cross-fertilization among all immigrants to promote a cosmopolitan interchange of customs, cultural ideas, and traditions
  • Permitting immigrants to celebrate their respective cultural and religious holidays publicly in the United States

Question 9

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One clear result of prohibition was:
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  • a rise in criminal organizations that supplied illegal liquor
  • an improvement in family relations and the general moral tone of the society
  • a turn from alcohol to other forms of substance abuse
  • the rise of voluntary self-help organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous

Question 10

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Which of the following represented a key obstacle to working class solidarity and union organizing in the United States during this period?
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  • Employers' devious use of ethnic tensions and rivalries among workers to thwart union activities and working-class solidarity
  • The absence of a progressive reform impulse in America
  • The growing influence of communists and other radicals in the labor movement
  • The general satisfaction of most workers with the wages, benefits, and working conditions provided by their employers

Question 11

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All of the following undermined the effective enforcement of prohibition laws against alcohol in America EXCEPT:
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  • historically weak central government control over the private spheres of Americans' lives
  • the fierce hostility of the majority - or a strong minority - of Americans to the prohibition of alcohol
  • alcohol smuggling and distribution operations sponsored in Canada and the West Indies and by organized crime syndicates
  • overwhelming popular opposition to prohibition in the South and the West

Question 12

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The American city where gangsterism flourished most blatantly in the 1920s was?
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  • New York City
  • Los Angeles
  • Chicago
  • New Orleans

Question 13

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According to John Dewey, the primary goal of progressive education should be to:
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  • instill discipline and character in young people
  • emphasize the liberal arts over the natural sciences in teaching curricula
  • develop specialized functional skills for employment
  • educate students for life through active, participatory learning methods

Question 14

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Which of the following was NOT an outcome of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial?
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  • Fundamentalist religion continued to be a vibrant force in American spiritual life
  • It was a hollow victory for the fundamentalist cause because the scientific absurdities of its position were revealed
  • It was a complete legal vindication of a teacher's right to teach evolution in the public schools of Tennessee
  • It was the final appearance in influential civic life of former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan

Question 15

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The essential issue in the Scopes Trial was whether:
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  • scientists ought to be allowed to investigate the biological origins of humanity
  • the teachings of Darwin could be reconciled with those of religion
  • Darwinian evolutionary science could be taught in the public schools
  • Fundamentalist Protestantism could be taught in the public schools

Question 16

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How did American business in the 1920s attempt to solve the problem of developing enormous universal markets for its mass-produced goods?
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  • American business developed a large range of product variations
  • American business nurtured the birth and development of consumer advertising
  • American business engaged in fierce price-competition wars
  • American business introduced direct selling through catalogs and door-to-door solicitations

Question 17

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What dark cloud hung over the economic prosperity enjoyed by Americans in the 1920s?
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  • An enormous amount of American consumer debt
  • The inability of American business to produce sufficient numbers of products to meet increasing consumer demand
  • Superfluous government spending that threatened to crowd out private investment in the booming economy
  • An excessive level of savings by Americans that dampened consumer spending

Question 18

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The most highly acclaimed industrial innovator of the new mass-production economy was:
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  • Babe Ruth
  • Bruce Barton
  • Ransom E. Olds
  • Henry Ford

Question 19

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One of the primary social effects of the new automobile age was:
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  • a weakening of traditional family ties between parents and youth
  • closing of the gap between the working class and the wealthy
  • increased dependence of women on men
  • tightening of restrictions on women

Question 20

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What did the 1920 census reveal about the lives of Americans?
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  • For the first time in the nations history, most adult women were employed outside the home
  • For the first time in the nations history, most men worked in manufacturing
  • For the first time in the nations history, more Americans lived in the cities than in the countryside
  • For the first time in the nations history, more American families had fewer than four children

Question 21

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Radio and the movies both had the cultural effect of:
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  • increasing Americans' interest in history and literature
  • increasing mass standardization and weakening traditional forms of culture
  • undermining the tendency of industry toward big business and mass production
  • encouraging creativity and cultural independence among the people

Question 22

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In the 1920s the major changes pursued by American women were:
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  • voting rights and political equality
  • economic equality and equal pay for equal work
  • social reform and family welfare
  • cultural freedom and expanded sexual experience

Question 23

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The primary achievement of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was:
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  • its promotion of black jazz and blues
  • its positive impact of black racial pride
  • its economic development program in Harlem
  • its transportation of numerous blacks to Liberia

Question 24

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What did many Americans point to in order to justify their new sexual frankness?
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  • The increased consumption of alcohol
  • The decline of fundamentalism
  • The rise of the women's movement
  • The theories of Sigmund Freud

Question 25

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The literacy figure who promoted many new writers of the 1920s in his magazine, The American Mercury, was?
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  • H.L. Mencken
  • W.C. Haney
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Henry Adams

Question 26

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Which socioeconomic group bore the heaviest tax burden in the 1920s as a result of the tax policies of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon?
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  • Middle-income groups
  • The Wealthy
  • The Working Class
  • The Business Community

Question 27

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Many of the prominent new writers of the 1920s were:
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  • fascinated by their historical roots in old New England
  • disgusted with European influences on American culture
  • interested especially in nature and social reform
  • highly critical of American "Puritanism" and small-town life
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