Question 1

What domestic and global factors triggered the Great Depression?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Causes

Question 2

Which of the following sectors of American society saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Industrial output 
B)  Working conditions 
C)  Race relations 
D)  The distribution of income 
A)  Industrial output 
B)  Working conditions 
C)  Race relations 
D)  The distribution of income

Question 3

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. * Laws to require the reading of the Holy Bible in every American public school.
* Recognition of the fact ...that Romanism is working here to undermine Americanism....Since Roman Catholics give first allegiance to an alien political potentate,the pope ...their claim to citizenship,to the ballot,and to public office in this Protestant country is illegitimate,and must be forbidden by law....
* A law to destroy the alien influence of the foreign language press [by] requiring that the English language be used exclusively.
* )..Recognition of the tendency toward moral disintegration,resulting from the activities ...of the anti-Christian Jews,in our theaters,our motion pictures,and in American business circles;the discontinuance of these anti-Christian activities,and the exclusion of Jews of this character from America.
* The return of the Negroes to their homeland of Africa,under the protection and with the help of the United States Government.
* Strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States,including the Prohibition Amendment,by every citizen.
"Program for America," in the KKK newspaper American Standard,April 15,1925
The excerpt above would be most useful to historians analyzing the

Accepted Answer

A)  emergence of the civil rights movement. 
B)  impact of changing demographics on political and cultural conflict. 
C)  radical,union,and populist movements in the United States. 
D)  creation of a new mass culture in the United States. 
A)  emergence of the civil rights movement. 
B)  impact of changing demographics on political and cultural conflict. 
C)  radical,union,and populist movements in the United States. 
D)  creation of a new mass culture in the United States.

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-Universal Negro Improvement Association

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.

Question 5

What factors,both international and domestic,contributed to the emergence of the Red Scare?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Interna

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Scopes trial

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.

Question 7

Briefly describe the short-term and long-term causes of the Great Depression as well as its immediate effects.Focus on the period between 1919 and 1932.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Briefly describe the short-term and long-term causes...

Question 8

Answer the following  questions :
-Hollywood

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.

Question 9

Answer the following  questions :
-consumer credit

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.

Question 10

How did the U.S.government change immigration restrictions during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The National Origins Act set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census. 
B)  The 1929 Immigration Act relaxed quotas for Europeans but tightened those for Latin Americans. 
C)  The 1921 Emergency Immigration Bill set quotas at 10 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1900 census. 
D)  To meet the need for cheap labor,the 1929 Immigration Act reversed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. 
A)  The National Origins Act set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census. 
B)  The 1929 Immigration Act relaxed quotas for Europeans but tightened those for Latin Americans. 
C)  The 1921 Emergency Immigration Bill set quotas at 10 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1900 census. 
D)  To meet the need for cheap labor,the 1929 Immigration Act reversed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 11

Answer the following  questions :
-American Civil Liberties Union

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.

Question 12

Answer the following  questions :
-welfare capitalism

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.

Question 13

Which of the following factors contributed to the incredible number of militant strikes that occurred during 1919?

Accepted Answer

A)  Employers sought to reinstitute the ten-hour workday. 
B)  American companies fired wartime workers and hired returning soldiers. 
C)  Public support for labor unions made strikes more acceptable. 
D)  Employers tried to root out labor unions after the war. 
A)  Employers sought to reinstitute the ten-hour workday. 
B)  American companies fired wartime workers and hired returning soldiers. 
C)  Public support for labor unions made strikes more acceptable. 
D)  Employers tried to root out labor unions after the war.

Question 14

How did the Great Depression affect women's participation in the workforce in the early 1930s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Prohibitions on hiring women led to falling rates of women's employment. 
B)  Despite bans on women's employment,their workforce participation increased. 
C)  White women were unemployed at a much greater rate than black women. 
D)  Traditional women's jobs went to men,driving women out of the workforce. 
A)  Prohibitions on hiring women led to falling rates of women's employment. 
B)  Despite bans on women's employment,their workforce participation increased. 
C)  White women were unemployed at a much greater rate than black women. 
D)  Traditional women's jobs went to men,driving women out of the workforce.

Question 15

Which major scandal in Harding's administration was named after the national oil reserves it involved?

Accepted Answer

A)  Crédit Mobilier 
B)  Teapot Dome 
C)  Sinclair Oil 
D)  North Shore Oil 
A)  Crédit Mobilier 
B)  Teapot Dome 
C)  Sinclair Oil 
D)  North Shore Oil

Question 16

Why did the marriage rate in the United States fall to a historical low around 1933?

Accepted Answer

A)  The Depression forced people to delay marriage. 
B)  Marriage was becoming unpopular. 
C)  Women were entering the workforce. 
D)  Advocates for women's rights encouraged it. 
A)  The Depression forced people to delay marriage. 
B)  Marriage was becoming unpopular. 
C)  Women were entering the workforce. 
D)  Advocates for women's rights encouraged it.

Question 17

What activist movements emerged from the women's suffrage movement? How successful were these movements? What impact did they have on the lives of ordinary women?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Summary

Question 18

Which of the following statements characterizes American business during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Family-run businesses,rather than oligopolies or monopolies,became the norm. 
B)  The two hundred largest corporations controlled almost half of the national nonbanking wealth. 
C)  The number of mergers dwindled to almost nothing as businesses stopped consolidating. 
D)  American businesses concentrated their marketing efforts exclusively in the United States. 
A)  Family-run businesses,rather than oligopolies or monopolies,became the norm. 
B)  The two hundred largest corporations controlled almost half of the national nonbanking wealth. 
C)  The number of mergers dwindled to almost nothing as businesses stopped consolidating. 
D)  American businesses concentrated their marketing efforts exclusively in the United States.

Question 19

Which of the following is correct about the Scopes trial?

Accepted Answer

A)  John Scopes was found not guilty. 
B)  The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the constitutionality of the trial. 
C)  William Jennings Bryan defended Scopes in the trial. 
D)  Clarence Darrow defended the right to teach evolution in schools. 
A)  John Scopes was found not guilty. 
B)  The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the constitutionality of the trial. 
C)  William Jennings Bryan defended Scopes in the trial. 
D)  Clarence Darrow defended the right to teach evolution in schools.

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

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 domestic and global factors triggered the Great Depression? Answer Key

Which of the following sectors of American society saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?

Answer the following questions : -Universal Negro Improvement Association

What factors,both international and domestic,contributed to the emergence of the Red Scare?

Answer the following questions : -Scopes trial

Briefly describe the short-term and long-term causes of the Great Depression as well as its immediate effects.Focus on the period between 1919 and 1932.

Answer the following questions : -Hollywood

Answer the following questions : -consumer credit

How did the U.S.government change immigration restrictions during the 1920s?

Answer the following questions : -American Civil Liberties Union

Answer the following questions : -welfare capitalism

Which of the following factors contributed to the incredible number of militant strikes that occurred during 1919?

How did the Great Depression affect women's participation in the workforce in the early 1930s?

Which major scandal in Harding's administration was named after the national oil reserves it involved?

Why did the marriage rate in the United States fall to a historical low around 1933?

What activist movements emerged from the women's suffrage movement? How successful were these movements? What impact did they have on the lives of ordinary women?

Which of the following statements characterizes American business during the 1920s?

Which of the following is correct about the Scopes trial?

Answer the following questions : -Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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