Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Bible Belt

Accepted Answer

The Bible Belt is a term used to describ

Question 2

With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except

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A)  secret rituals. 
B)  lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt. 
C)  flag-waving parades. 
D)  the blazing cross. 
E)  the bloodied lash. 
A)  secret rituals. 
B)  lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt. 
C)  flag-waving parades. 
D)  the blazing cross. 
E)  the bloodied lash.

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

The 1920s was indeed a time of heroes, a

Question 4

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

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A)  men worked in manufacturing. 
B)  adult women were employed outside the home. 
C)  Americans lived in cities. 
D)  Americans lived in the trans-Mississippi West. 
E)  families had fewer than four children. 
A)  men worked in manufacturing. 
B)  adult women were employed outside the home. 
C)  Americans lived in cities. 
D)  Americans lived in the trans-Mississippi West. 
E)  families had fewer than four children.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​criminal syndicalism laws

Accepted Answer

Criminal syndicalism laws were statutes

Question 6

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion picturesin 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 7

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 8

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

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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti wer

Question 9

The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it

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A)  did not carry news programming. 
B)  gave preference in station ownership to religious and other nonprofit groups. 
C)  practiced censorship against sexually offensive material. 
D)  developed nationwide networks of stations broadcasting the same program. 
E)  was a commercial business dependent on advertising. 
A)  did not carry news programming. 
B)  gave preference in station ownership to religious and other nonprofit groups. 
C)  practiced censorship against sexually offensive material. 
D)  developed nationwide networks of stations broadcasting the same program. 
E)  was a commercial business dependent on advertising.

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Claude McKay

Accepted Answer

Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American wri

Question 11

The postwar anxiety and intolerance of Americans in the 1920s was manifested in the

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A)  Sacco-Vanzetti case. 
B)  state laws prohibiting the advocacy of violent social change. 
C)  resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. 
D)  Immigration Act of 1924. 
E)  deportation of radicals to Russia. 
A)  Sacco-Vanzetti case. 
B)  state laws prohibiting the advocacy of violent social change. 
C)  resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. 
D)  Immigration Act of 1924. 
E)  deportation of radicals to Russia.

Question 12

In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of

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A)  developing a large range of product variation. 
B)  price competition. 
C)  direct selling through catalogs and door-to-door solicitation. 
D)  consumer advertising. 
E)  government-backed guarantees of product performance. 
A)  developing a large range of product variation. 
B)  price competition. 
C)  direct selling through catalogs and door-to-door solicitation. 
D)  consumer advertising. 
E)  government-backed guarantees of product performance.

Question 13

The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because

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A)  the film was heavily financed by white racist Hollywood film business owners. 
B)  the film depicted the black leader Marcus Garvey in an unfavorable light. 
C)  African Americans were not allowed to see the film even in northern movie theaters. 
D)  the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists. 
E)  Griffith failed to give credit to the civil rights advocacy work and black intellectual leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois. 
A)  the film was heavily financed by white racist Hollywood film business owners. 
B)  the film depicted the black leader Marcus Garvey in an unfavorable light. 
C)  African Americans were not allowed to see the film even in northern movie theaters. 
D)  the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists. 
E)  Griffith failed to give credit to the civil rights advocacy work and black intellectual leadership of W.E.B. Du Bois.

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​American plan

Accepted Answer

The American Plan refers to a business-l

Question 15

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 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Accepted Answer

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American nove

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

The National Origins Quota System refers

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

The answer of What part did African American artists, writers,...

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-William Jennings Bryan

Accepted Answer

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 –

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Winesburg, Ohio

Accepted Answer

Winesburg, Ohio is a collection of short

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Bible Belt

With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except

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?

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -criminal syndicalism laws

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion picturesin the 1920s

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

The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Claude McKay

The postwar anxiety and intolerance of Americans in the 1920s was manifested in the

In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of

The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -American plan

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Jennings Bryan

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Winesburg, Ohio

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920–1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Exam 9: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Bible Belt

With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except

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?

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​criminal syndicalism laws

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion picturesin the 1920s

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

The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Claude McKay

The postwar anxiety and intolerance of Americans in the 1920s was manifested in the

In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920s relied especially on the new techniques of

The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​American plan

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

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?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Jennings Bryan

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Winesburg, Ohio

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920–1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -criminal syndicalism laws

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -American plan