Question 1

Businesspeople used the red scare to

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A)  oppose enactment of the American plan. 
B)  break the backs of fledgling unions. 
C)  campaign for the enactment of the "closed" shop. 
D)  secure passage of laws making unions legal. 
E)  reduce prices on consumer goods for Americans. 
A)  oppose enactment of the American plan. 
B)  break the backs of fledgling unions. 
C)  campaign for the enactment of the "closed" shop. 
D)  secure passage of laws making unions legal. 
E)  reduce prices on consumer goods for Americans.

Question 2

What part did African-American artists, writers, and musicians play in the new culture of the 1920s? How do you explain this burst of cultural creativity at a time when most blacks were still oppressed and segregated?

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African-American artists, writers, and m

Question 3

To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to

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A)  increased consumption of alcohol. 
B)  the decline of fundamentalism. 
C)  the rise of the women's movement. 
D)  the theories of Sigmund Freud. 
E)  the influence of erotically explicit movies. 
A)  increased consumption of alcohol. 
B)  the decline of fundamentalism. 
C)  the rise of the women's movement. 
D)  the theories of Sigmund Freud. 
E)  the influence of erotically explicit movies.

Question 4

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of

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A)  increased migration of blacks to the North. 
B)  the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to Southern and Eastern Europeans. 
C)  a desire to rid the country of the quota system. 
D)  the desire to halt immigration from Latin America. 
E)  the rampant spread of infectious diseases from southern and eastern European immigrants to native-born Americans across all of America. 
A)  increased migration of blacks to the North. 
B)  the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to Southern and Eastern Europeans. 
C)  a desire to rid the country of the quota system. 
D)  the desire to halt immigration from Latin America. 
E)  the rampant spread of infectious diseases from southern and eastern European immigrants to native-born Americans across all of America.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of Frederick W. Taylor.

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Inventor and engineer who prom

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of Marcus Garvey.

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Founded the United N

Question 7

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because

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A)  his political principles were widely admired. 
B)  he and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh made such an appealing couple. 
C)  his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age. 
D)  Americans were impressed by his boastful personality and awed by his recklessness. 
E)  Lindbergh's journey opened closer cultural connections to France. 
A)  his political principles were widely admired. 
B)  he and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh made such an appealing couple. 
C)  his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age. 
D)  Americans were impressed by his boastful personality and awed by his recklessness. 
E)  Lindbergh's journey opened closer cultural connections to France.

Question 8

How did the arguments of cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne anticipate later American debates over multiculturalism? In what ways did the technological and cultural developments of the 1920s make it more difficult for smaller cultural groups to retain their traditions?

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The arguments of cultural pluralists lik

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of Andrew Mellon.

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Secretary of the Tre

Question 10

In the mid-1920s the Ku Klux Klan gained considerable power by attacking

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A)  big business. 
B)  Catholics and Jews. 
C)  foreigners. 
D)  the federal government. 
E)  adultery and birth control. 
A)  big business. 
B)  Catholics and Jews. 
C)  foreigners. 
D)  the federal government. 
E)  adultery and birth control.

Question 11

Do you see any hidden dangers in the social and economic life that many middle-class and wealthy Americans pursued in the 1920s for which they would one day have to pay terrible costs? What were these social and economic dangers, and in what way were they potentially threatening to the long-term social and economic health and stability of American life? How did some of the works of modernist writers and artists of the 1920s shed light on the prospect of these social and economic dangers being realized and put a horrifying end to the American prosperity, cultural homogenization, and excess of the "Roaring Twenties"?

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The 1920s in America, often referred to

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the Equal Rights Amendment.

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Proposed in 1923, it

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of Langston Hughes.

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African-American poe

Question 14

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

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A)  women. 
B)  foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they emigrated to America. 
C)  westerners and southerners. 
D)  businesspeople and labor leaders. 
E)  evangelical Protestants. 
A)  women. 
B)  foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they emigrated to America. 
C)  westerners and southerners. 
D)  businesspeople and labor leaders. 
E)  evangelical Protestants.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of William Jennings Bryan.

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Former presidential candidate

Question 16

Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that

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A)  Spanish and German should be recognized as official languages of the United States along with English. 
B)  "one hundred percent Americanization" of all Southern and Eastern European immigrants was necessary for America to retain its democratic and cosmopolitan culture. 
C)  immigrants to the United States could and should remain politically loyal to their original nations. 
D)  immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot. 
E)  the full-fledged preservation of ethnic identity and cross-fertilization among immigrants were both unhealthy and dangerous cultural trends that threatened to the long-term health and democratic nature of America. 
A)  Spanish and German should be recognized as official languages of the United States along with English. 
B)  "one hundred percent Americanization" of all Southern and Eastern European immigrants was necessary for America to retain its democratic and cosmopolitan culture. 
C)  immigrants to the United States could and should remain politically loyal to their original nations. 
D)  immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot. 
E)  the full-fledged preservation of ethnic identity and cross-fertilization among immigrants were both unhealthy and dangerous cultural trends that threatened to the long-term health and democratic nature of America.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of The Sound and the Fury.

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Novel by William Fau

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of Edith Wharton.

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New York writer whos

Question 19

Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources EXCEPT

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A)  agents from U.S. railroads. 
B)  letters from friends and relatives. 
C)  agents from steamship lines. 
D)  Protestant missionaries. 
E)  Polish-American businesspeople. 
A)  agents from U.S. railroads. 
B)  letters from friends and relatives. 
C)  agents from steamship lines. 
D)  Protestant missionaries. 
E)  Polish-American businesspeople.

Question 20

Some historians have considered the political tensions of the 1920s in terms of a rural, conservative, and nativist backlash against a rising urban, progressive, and "New Immigrant" America. Do you agree with this proposition? Why or why not? Cite specific political, economic, and social developments in America during the 1920s to support your argument.

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I agree with the proposition that the po

Exam 30: American Life in the Roaring Twenties

Businesspeople used the red scare to

What part did African-American artists, writers, and musicians play in the new culture of the 1920s? How do you explain this burst of cultural creativity at a time when most blacks were still oppressed and segregated?

To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of

Identify and state the historical significance of Frederick W. Taylor.

Identify and state the historical significance of Marcus Garvey.

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because

How did the arguments of cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne anticipate later American debates over multiculturalism? In what ways did the technological and cultural developments of the 1920s make it more difficult for smaller cultural groups to retain their traditions?

Identify and state the historical significance of Andrew Mellon.

In the mid-1920s the Ku Klux Klan gained considerable power by attacking

Identify and state the historical significance of the Equal Rights Amendment.

Identify and state the historical significance of Langston Hughes.

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

Identify and state the historical significance of William Jennings Bryan.

Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that

Identify and state the historical significance of The Sound and the Fury.

Identify and state the historical significance of Edith Wharton.

Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources EXCEPT

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

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War

The Great Depression and the New Deal

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War

America in World War II

The Cold War Begins

American Zenith

The Stormy Sixties

A Sea of Troubles

The Resurgence of Conservatism

America Confronts the Post Cold War Era

The American People Face a New Century

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