Question 1

The first talkie motion picture was

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A)  The Great Train Robbery. 
B)  The Birth of a Nation. 
C)  The Wizard of Oz. 
D)  Gone with the Wind. 
E)  The Jazz Singer. 
A)  The Great Train Robbery. 
B)  The Birth of a Nation. 
C)  The Wizard of Oz. 
D)  Gone with the Wind. 
E)  The Jazz Singer.

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the Harlem Renaissance.

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A period of cultural and polit

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of Winesburg, Ohio.

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A collection of stories examin

Question 4

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion pictures in the 1920s

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A)  were less popular than had been anticipated. 
B)  contributed to the standardization of American life. 
C)  affirmed and supported the rich diversity of traditional Old Country cultures and values. 
D)  were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families. 
E)  strengthened American family life. 
A)  were less popular than had been anticipated. 
B)  contributed to the standardization of American life. 
C)  affirmed and supported the rich diversity of traditional Old Country cultures and values. 
D)  were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families. 
E)  strengthened American family life.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of The Great Gatsby.

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A novel examining th

Question 6

Car advertisements in the 1920s reached out to the mass market of American female consumers in all of the following ways EXCEPT

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A)  showing them cars were respectable for women. 
B)  illustrating how automobiles could permit women to ignore their traditional duties as household managers and advance their professional career goals and ambitions. 
C)  linking modern, independent women to automobiles. 
D)  noting that cars enabled women to better fulfill their roles as household managers. 
E)  demonstrating that women could indeed learn to drive. 
A)  showing them cars were respectable for women. 
B)  illustrating how automobiles could permit women to ignore their traditional duties as household managers and advance their professional career goals and ambitions. 
C)  linking modern, independent women to automobiles. 
D)  noting that cars enabled women to better fulfill their roles as household managers. 
E)  demonstrating that women could indeed learn to drive.

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of Charles Lindbergh.

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First to fly solo fr

Question 8

The short-term legal outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that

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A)  attorney Clarence Darrow got the charges against John Scopes dropped. 
B)  the state of Tennessee modified its anti-evolution law. 
C)  biology teacher John Scopes was found not guilty of teaching evolution and returned to the classroom to teach only evolution in his classroom. 
D)  biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined. 
E)  the jury was deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict. 
A)  attorney Clarence Darrow got the charges against John Scopes dropped. 
B)  the state of Tennessee modified its anti-evolution law. 
C)  biology teacher John Scopes was found not guilty of teaching evolution and returned to the classroom to teach only evolution in his classroom. 
D)  biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined. 
E)  the jury was deadlocked and unable to reach a verdict.

Question 9

Although speakeasies and hard liquor flourished, historians argue that Prohibition wasn't entirely a failure for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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A)  bank savings increased. 
B)  absenteeism in the workplace decreased. 
C)  people consumed less alcohol overall. 
D)  crime levels decreased. 
E)  more people lived a sober lifestyle. 
A)  bank savings increased. 
B)  absenteeism in the workplace decreased. 
C)  people consumed less alcohol overall. 
D)  crime levels decreased. 
E)  more people lived a sober lifestyle.

Question 10

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

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A)  murder. 
B)  income-tax evasion. 
C)  kidnapping. 
D)  conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. 
E)  running criminal prostitution rings. 
A)  murder. 
B)  income-tax evasion. 
C)  kidnapping. 
D)  conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. 
E)  running criminal prostitution rings.

Question 11

All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, EXCEPT he

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A)  promoted the resettlement of American blacks in Africa. 
B)  advocated the idea of developing an elite "talented tenth" to lead African American economic and social progress and promote racial integration in the United States. 
C)  inspired strong feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks. 
D)  was convicted of mail fraud and deported by the U.S. government. 
E)  sponsored black-owned business enterprises. 
A)  promoted the resettlement of American blacks in Africa. 
B)  advocated the idea of developing an elite "talented tenth" to lead African American economic and social progress and promote racial integration in the United States. 
C)  inspired strong feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks. 
D)  was convicted of mail fraud and deported by the U.S. government. 
E)  sponsored black-owned business enterprises.

Question 12

The "red scare" of 1919-1920 was provoked by

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A)  the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities. 
B)  urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition. 
C)  public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation. 
D)  the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries. 
E)  Russian Communism's threat to American security. 
A)  the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities. 
B)  urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition. 
C)  public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation. 
D)  the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries. 
E)  Russian Communism's threat to American security.

Question 13

List at least five major economic and/or technological developments of the 1920s. Select the three most significant ones and explain your choices.

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1. The widespread adoption of the assemb

Question 14

Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of

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A)  abortion rights. 
B)  women's suffrage. 
C)  birth control. 
D)  free love. 
E)  equal pay for equal work. 
A)  abortion rights. 
B)  women's suffrage. 
C)  birth control. 
D)  free love. 
E)  equal pay for equal work.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of Jack Dempsey.

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Boxer and media-made

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of Sigmund Freud.

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Viennese physician who argued

Question 17

John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of ____."

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A)  Social Darwinism 
B)  progressive education 
C)  evolutionary science 
D)  psychoanalysis 
E)  Hegelian philosophy 
A)  Social Darwinism 
B)  progressive education 
C)  evolutionary science 
D)  psychoanalysis 
E)  Hegelian philosophy

Question 18

Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from which of the following illegal enterprise(s)?

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A)  prostitution 
B)  gambling and loan sharking 
C)  labor racketeering 
D)  illegal drugs 
E)  All of these choices are correct. 
A)  prostitution 
B)  gambling and loan sharking 
C)  labor racketeering 
D)  illegal drugs 
E)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 19

What explains the rise of Marcus Garvey's United Negro Improvement Association movement? Why was Garvey such an important political figure for American blacks during the 1920s and beyond even though his movement of black self-reliance and self-support ultimately failed and Garvey himself was deported by an anxious U.S. government in 1927?

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The rise of Marcus Garvey's United Negro

Question 20

Jazz music was developed by

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A)  Latinos. 
B)  Caribbean immigrants. 
C)  Caucasian impresarios. 
D)  American teenagers. 
E)  American blacks. 
A)  Latinos. 
B)  Caribbean immigrants. 
C)  Caucasian impresarios. 
D)  American teenagers. 
E)  American blacks.

Exam 30: American Life in the Roaring Twenties

The first talkie motion picture was

Identify and state the historical significance of the Harlem Renaissance.

Identify and state the historical significance of Winesburg, Ohio.

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion pictures in the 1920s

Identify and state the historical significance of The Great Gatsby.

Car advertisements in the 1920s reached out to the mass market of American female consumers in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Identify and state the historical significance of Charles Lindbergh.

The short-term legal outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that

Although speakeasies and hard liquor flourished, historians argue that Prohibition wasn't entirely a failure for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, EXCEPT he

The "red scare" of 1919-1920 was provoked by

List at least five major economic and/or technological developments of the 1920s. Select the three most significant ones and explain your choices.

Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of

Identify and state the historical significance of Jack Dempsey.

Identify and state the historical significance of Sigmund Freud.

John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of ____."

Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from which of the following illegal enterprise(s)?

Jazz music was developed by

New World Beginnings

The Contest for North America

Settling the English Colonies

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution

The Road to Revolution

America Secedes From the Empire

The Confederation and the Constitution

Launching the New Ship of State

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism

The Rise of a Mass Democracy

Forging the National Economy

The Ferment of Reform and Culture

The South and the Slavery Controversy

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

Renewing the Sectional Struggle

Drifting Toward Disunion

Girding for War the North and the South

The Furnace of Civil War

The Ordeal of Reconstruction

The Industrial Era Dawns

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age

America Moves to the City

The Conquest of the West

Rumbles of Discontent

Empire and Expansion

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