Question 1

In its effort to create prosperity at home,the Harding administration supported

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A)   high tariffs to protect American businesses.
B)   nationalization of American agriculture.
C)   tight government regulation of industry.
D)   a large public works program called Teapot Dome.E) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 2

What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?

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A)   A lack of unity around the issues
B)   A major crime wave,which kept women from venturing to the polls
C)   Required literacy tests for all new women voters
D)   Laws prohibiting women from joining the major political partiesE) B) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 3

What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in 1915?

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A)   The widespread belief that blacks,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews threatened traditional American values
B)   The notion that African Americans were gaining equality in the new world of giant corporations and needed to be kept in their place
C)   The belief that the government was conspiring to subvert the fundamental rights of U.S.citizens
D)   The belief that some apocalyptic event was about to occur and the Klan would bring salvationE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 4

What did the presidential election of 1924,in which Calvin Coolidge defeated John W.Davis and Robert La Follette,reveal about American voters?

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A)   Their lack of support for labor unions,the regulation of business,and the protection of civil liberties
B)   Their strong support for government regulation of industry and for other progressive principles
C)   Low turnout showed that their interest in consumer goods far outweighed their interest in politics.
D)   Their strong support for the candidate who was more physically attractive,despite his lack of political experienceE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 5

What did the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial suggest about the United States in the 1920s?

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A)   The American judicial system was a model of impartiality.
B)   Americans generally loathed thieves and murderers.
C)   The legal appeals process often brought a fairer verdict than the original trial.
D)   Antiforeign hysteria was rampant in many areas of American life.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 6

What was Detroit's second largest industry during the 1920s?

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A)   Illegal alcohol sales
B)   Automobile manufacturing
C)   Steel production
D)   Railroad constructionE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 7

Who was responsible for the creation of "welfare capitalism" in the 1920s,and why did they use it?

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A)   The government created welfare capitalism to address the needs of the less fortunate.
B)   Traditional labor unions established welfare capitalism to assist workers.
C)   Businesses created welfare capitalism to encourage workers' loyalty to the company.
D)   Socialists designed welfare capitalism to bring apolitical workers into the radical fold.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 8

Which group sponsored a team of lawyers to defend the nine young black men in Scottsboro,Alabama,who were arrested on trumped-up rape charges in 1931?

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A)   The Republican party
B)   The Communist party
C)   The NAACP
D)   The League of Women VotersE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 9

"[T]he byproducts of the [advertiser's] efforts have had prodigious effects upon our opinions,our standards of taste,our habits,and even upon our picture of a good life. We arise in the morning and we bathe.Why? Merely because soap makers have taught us the importance of cleanliness....
Beards and even mustaches have gone out of fashion because razor manufacturers persuaded us to shave.
We clean our teeth because toothpaste manufacturers have made us believe in the importance of oral hygiene.They have saved us from more aches than the dentists could cure.
Our breakfast habits are the results of the teaching of food manufacturers.The old heavy American breakfast has gone the way of the hoop skirt.Our health is better.Advertising did it.
The clothes we wear,the houses we live in,the furniture we use,our very conception of a home is the product of advertising....
If journalism is the little sister of literature,advertising began certainly as the Cinderella of selling.Now it is the great motive force in our commercial life.It is the life blood of public demand.Our material civilization has been made possible by it."
According to William Chenery's 1930 Collier's article,what represented a positive outcome of the new advertising culture?

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A)   Rising responsibilities faced by women homemakers
B)   Changing views of homeownership
C)   Improved diets
D)   Greater social equalityE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

When Herbert Hoover took office in 1929,he brought to the presidency

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A)   modern ideas about how businesses should operate.
B)   decades of experience in elected office.
C)   few credentials to lead a prosperous nation.
D)   strong opposition to progressive ideals.E) A) and D)
F) C) and D) A

Question 11

Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association urged black Americans in the 1920s to

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A)   revolt against the U.S.government and their white oppressors.
B)   rediscover their African heritage and take pride in their culture and achievements.
C)   adopt the accommodationist stance advocated by Booker T.Washington to increase their status.
D)   lobby the federal government for reparations for the time they and their ancestors spent in slavery.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D) B

Question 12

What did popular culture and consumer goods have in common in the 1920s?

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A)   Both condemned by the Catholic Church as sinful.
B)   Both had become so inexpensive that most Americans could afford them.
C)   Neither had penetrated the rural areas of the United States.
D)   Both were mass-produced and mass-consumed.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 13

During the 1920s,most American women who worked had

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A)   manufacturing jobs in factories.
B)   office and sales jobs.
C)   jobs in domestic and food service.
D)   medical,legal,and financial jobs.E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 14

Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?

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A)   It dominated politics in California,New Jersey,New York,Connecticut,and Vermont.
B)   It had embraced the changes that came with modernity.
C)   It had stopped its attacks on foreigners and Jews and was concentrating on cleansing the nation of Negroes.
D)   It had a strong influence on politics in California,Illinois,Indiana,Kansas,Louisiana,Oklahoma,Oregon,and Texas.E) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 15

What was the goal of the Washington Disarmament Conference?

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A)   To negotiate peace treaties with Germany,Austria,and Hungary
B)   To convince Congress to authorize $25 million to compensate Mexico for the loss of its territory in the 1840s
C)   To persuade England and France to forgive the reparations they wanted Germany to pay after World War I
D)   To establish a balance of naval power among Britain,France,Japan,and ItalyE) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 16

What was the outcome of the shift toward repetitive assembly-line work and specialized management divisions in the 1920s?

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A)   Lower enrollment in college and university managerial training programs
B)   A worsening of safety and sanitary conditions in American factories
C)   Massive layoffs of American workers in all heavy industries
D)   A tremendous increase in business productivity and overall efficiencyE) A) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 17

In 1927,Charles Lindbergh became the first person to

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A)   swim the English Channel alone.
B)   fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.
C)   drive an automobile across the United States in less than a week.
D)   fly around the world.E) All of the above
F) None of the above B

Question 18

For which group of Americans did authors Ernest Hemingway,F.Scott Fitzgerald,William Faulkner,and Sinclair Lewis speak?

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A)   Corporate America and the nation's consumer society
B)   Their co-participants in the Harlem Renaissance
C)   Critics of American anti-intellectualism and materialism
D)   Republicans and supporters of prohibitionE) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 19

President Harding's administration was characterized by

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A)   ongoing government control of industry.
B)   financial wrongdoing on the part of the president.
C)   scandals that touched many members of his administration.
D)   an aggressive foreign policy.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 20

By the early 1930s,unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by

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A)   becoming increasingly passive and despondent,assuming that they were not worthy of jobs.
B)   seeking to improve their job qualifications by enrolling in vocational training programs.
C)   becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest.
D)   turning on one another with violence as the competition for scarce jobs became even steeper.E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?

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What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in 1915?

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What did the presidential election of 1924,in which Calvin Coolidge defeated John W.Davis and Robert La Follette,reveal about American voters?

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What did the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial suggest about the United States in the 1920s?

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What was Detroit's second largest industry during the 1920s?

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Who was responsible for the creation of "welfare capitalism" in the 1920s,and why did they use it?

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Which group sponsored a team of lawyers to defend the nine young black men in Scottsboro,Alabama,who were arrested on trumped-up rape charges in 1931?

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Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?

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What was the goal of the Washington Disarmament Conference?

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For which group of Americans did authors Ernest Hemingway,F.Scott Fitzgerald,William Faulkner,and Sinclair Lewis speak?

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What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?

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What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in 1915?

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