Exam 31: American Life in the "Roaring Twenties",1919-1929

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 the following: -Equal Rights Amendment

Do you think that the 1920s should be most noted as a decade of anxiety and intolerance or a decade of cultural innovation and liberation? What were the deepest forces shaping American culture in this period?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Horace Kallen

During the red scare

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Model T

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Edith Wharton

The 1920s was a time of heroes.Why? Why were Charles Lindbergh,Babe Ruth,and Henry Ford all so greatly admired in this decade? What were the similarities and differences in their appeal?

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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

As secretary of the treasury,Andrew Mellon placed the heaviest tax burden on

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

Would you like to have lived in the 1920s? Why or why not? Explain what you find most alluring about the decade and what you would not have liked.

Which of the following was not among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -cultural pluralism

The 1920 census revealed that,for the first time,most

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -H.L.Mencken

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -national origins quota system