Question 1

What factors contributed to racial and labor violence after the war?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Causes

Question 2

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. The towering importance of the American motion picture on the world's markets cannot be safely explained by the unlimited financial resources at the disposal of the American producers....Its main reason is the mentality of the American picture,which,notwithstanding all attacks and claims to the contrary,apparently comes nearest to the taste of international cinema audiences.
)..The specific and unique element of the American film is the fact of its being absolutely uncomplicated.Being what is called "naïve" it knows no problems....
It is really preferable to have a picture too light rather than too heavy,because in the latter case there is a danger that the public will not understand the story.This is the worst thing that can happen with a picture....
The subject matter of the film is the main consideration.The idea itself must be capable of being understood all over the world [and based in] those great human emotions that are the same for all countries....That is why,as far as possible,novel yet nonetheless perennial plots are chosen-love and pain,humour and sentiment,art and nature,science and the primitive.
Erich Pommer,"Hollywood in Europe," 1928
Which of the following developments from the nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries compares most closely to the description that the excerpt provides?

Accepted Answer

A)  The emergence of a national culture combining European forms with local and regional cultural sensibilities in the 1820s and 1830s 
B)  The nation's transformation into a more participatory democracy in the 1830s and 1840s 
C)  The development of an increasingly homogeneous mass culture in the 1950s 
D)  The spread of computer technology and the Internet into daily life,leading to new social behaviors and networks in the 1990s and 2000s 
A)  The emergence of a national culture combining European forms with local and regional cultural sensibilities in the 1820s and 1830s 
B)  The nation's transformation into a more participatory democracy in the 1830s and 1840s 
C)  The development of an increasingly homogeneous mass culture in the 1950s 
D)  The spread of computer technology and the Internet into daily life,leading to new social behaviors and networks in the 1990s and 2000s

Question 3

African Americans who served in World War I returned home to find

Accepted Answer

A)  new appreciation for their patriotism. 
B)  greater access to jobs when they showed their discharge papers. 
C)  less racism from whites than before the war. 
D)  discrimination and race riots. 
A)  new appreciation for their patriotism. 
B)  greater access to jobs when they showed their discharge papers. 
C)  less racism from whites than before the war. 
D)  discrimination and race riots.

Question 4

As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding,Herbert Hoover

Accepted Answer

A)  led a renewed campaign of trust-busting to restore competition in the business world. 
B)  sought to eliminate any type of government intervention in business. 
C)  worked to extend the power of the War Industries Board and War Labor Board. 
D)  believed that voluntary cooperation between government and business could replace regulation. 
A)  led a renewed campaign of trust-busting to restore competition in the business world. 
B)  sought to eliminate any type of government intervention in business. 
C)  worked to extend the power of the War Industries Board and War Labor Board. 
D)  believed that voluntary cooperation between government and business could replace regulation.

Question 5

The growing pan-Africanism movement that began to emerge among blacks during the 1920s was spurred in part by

Accepted Answer

A)  black men's military service during World War I. 
B)  nativist whites' efforts to deport blacks. 
C)  the anticolonial movements that had transformed Africa. 
D)  the dismal American economy of the 1920s. 
A)  black men's military service during World War I. 
B)  nativist whites' efforts to deport blacks. 
C)  the anticolonial movements that had transformed Africa. 
D)  the dismal American economy of the 1920s.

Question 6

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Origins Act represented a resurgence of

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A)  religious revival. 
B)  nativism. 
C)  jingoism. 
D)  fundamentalism. 
A)  religious revival. 
B)  nativism. 
C)  jingoism. 
D)  fundamentalism.

Question 7

What was the significance of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  It represented a major black artistic movement. 
B)  The UNIA created the Harlem Renaissance. 
C)  It was the only biracial organization of its day. 
D)  It left a legacy of activism among working-class blacks. 
A)  It represented a major black artistic movement. 
B)  The UNIA created the Harlem Renaissance. 
C)  It was the only biracial organization of its day. 
D)  It left a legacy of activism among working-class blacks.

Question 8

What were the origins of jazz,and what role did it play in the culture of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Origins

Question 9

The culture wars of the 1920s were due in part to

Accepted Answer

A)  a backlash against big business as many poorer Americans struggled economically. 
B)  the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration. 
C)  political battles between Democrats and Republicans throughout the decade. 
D)  the change in foreign policy from isolation to internationalism. 
A)  a backlash against big business as many poorer Americans struggled economically. 
B)  the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration. 
C)  political battles between Democrats and Republicans throughout the decade. 
D)  the change in foreign policy from isolation to internationalism.

Question 10

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. The towering importance of the American motion picture on the world's markets cannot be safely explained by the unlimited financial resources at the disposal of the American producers....Its main reason is the mentality of the American picture,which,notwithstanding all attacks and claims to the contrary,apparently comes nearest to the taste of international cinema audiences.
)..The specific and unique element of the American film is the fact of its being absolutely uncomplicated.Being what is called "naïve" it knows no problems....
It is really preferable to have a picture too light rather than too heavy,because in the latter case there is a danger that the public will not understand the story.This is the worst thing that can happen with a picture....
The subject matter of the film is the main consideration.The idea itself must be capable of being understood all over the world [and based in] those great human emotions that are the same for all countries....That is why,as far as possible,novel yet nonetheless perennial plots are chosen-love and pain,humour and sentiment,art and nature,science and the primitive.
Erich Pommer,"Hollywood in Europe," 1928
The passage above was most likely written in response to

Accepted Answer

A)  the global ramifications of World War I wartime patriotism. 
B)  arguments that Americans were destined to expand their culture and norms to others. 
C)  the development of a variety of cultural expressions for migrant,regional,and African American artists. 
D)  urban,industrial society's national culture making shared experiences more possible. 
A)  the global ramifications of World War I wartime patriotism. 
B)  arguments that Americans were destined to expand their culture and norms to others. 
C)  the development of a variety of cultural expressions for migrant,regional,and African American artists. 
D)  urban,industrial society's national culture making shared experiences more possible.

Question 11

What was the Scopes "monkey trial" and how did it reflect the growing divisions in American society in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Summary

Question 12

What was the relationship between the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the National Origins Act of 1924?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Nativism

Question 13

The use of cultural forms such as Hollywood films and radio programs to export American culture to foreign shores exemplifies what concept?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Harlem Renaissance 
B)  Soft power 
C)  Dollar diplomacy 
D)  Pan-Africanism 
A)  The Harlem Renaissance 
B)  Soft power 
C)  Dollar diplomacy 
D)  Pan-Africanism

Question 14

How did American consumers respond to the economic situation in the early 1930s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Many increased their spending in hopes of stimulating the faltering economy. 
B)  The drop in prices stimulated a major buying spree for middle-class spenders. 
C)  Facing the possibility of hard times and unemployment,most Americans cut back. 
D)  Falling production rates meant that few goods were available for Americans to purchase. 
A)  Many increased their spending in hopes of stimulating the faltering economy. 
B)  The drop in prices stimulated a major buying spree for middle-class spenders. 
C)  Facing the possibility of hard times and unemployment,most Americans cut back. 
D)  Falling production rates meant that few goods were available for Americans to purchase.

Question 15

How did the automobile exemplify both the opportunities and the risks of 1920s consumer culture?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Opportu

Question 16

Which of the following facts regarding Sacco and Vanzetti clearly biased the jury against them?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were Italian immigrants. 
B)  Both had criminal histories. 
C)  They were communists. 
D)  Both were illegal immigrants. 
A)  They were Italian immigrants. 
B)  Both had criminal histories. 
C)  They were communists. 
D)  Both were illegal immigrants.

Question 17

Which of the following is true regarding the Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921?

Accepted Answer

A)  It was the first federally funded,health-care legislation. 
B)  The act excluded working-class women. 
C)  It prohibited midwives and home births. 
D)  The National Woman's Party opposed its passage. 
A)  It was the first federally funded,health-care legislation. 
B)  The act excluded working-class women. 
C)  It prohibited midwives and home births. 
D)  The National Woman's Party opposed its passage.

Question 18

Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E.Smith,the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?

Accepted Answer

A)  Smith had a speaking voice ideally suited to the new medium of radio. 
B)  He was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class. 
C)  Smith was a product of Chicago's influential Irish political machine. 
D)  He lost the election because he failed to carry the heavily industrialized states in the urban Northeast. 
A)  Smith had a speaking voice ideally suited to the new medium of radio. 
B)  He was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class. 
C)  Smith was a product of Chicago's influential Irish political machine. 
D)  He lost the election because he failed to carry the heavily industrialized states in the urban Northeast.

Question 19

In what ways did World War I contribute to the growth of the American state in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Summary

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-Teapot Dome

Accepted Answer

A) A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties. 
B) A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel. 
C) The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless. 
D) Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union. 
E) A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action. 
A) A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties. 
B) A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel. 
C) The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless. 
D) Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union. 
E) A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Exam 21: Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

What factors contributed to racial and labor violence after the war?

African Americans who served in World War I returned home to find

As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding,Herbert Hoover

The growing pan-Africanism movement that began to emerge among blacks during the 1920s was spurred in part by

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Origins Act represented a resurgence of

What was the significance of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)in the 1920s?

What were the origins of jazz,and what role did it play in the culture of the 1920s?

The culture wars of the 1920s were due in part to

What was the Scopes "monkey trial" and how did it reflect the growing divisions in American society in the 1920s?

What was the relationship between the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the National Origins Act of 1924?

The use of cultural forms such as Hollywood films and radio programs to export American culture to foreign shores exemplifies what concept?

How did American consumers respond to the economic situation in the early 1930s?

How did the automobile exemplify both the opportunities and the risks of 1920s consumer culture?

Which of the following facts regarding Sacco and Vanzetti clearly biased the jury against them?

Which of the following is true regarding the Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921?

Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E.Smith,the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?

In what ways did World War I contribute to the growth of the American state in the 1920s?

Answer the following questions : -Teapot Dome

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