Question 1

The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   immigration restrictions against "non-native" Americans.
B)   anti-Semitism.
C)   opposition to Prohibition.
D)   repression of pacifists.
E)   anti-Catholicism.F) A) and B)
G) B) and C)

Question 2

Job opportunities for women in the 1920s

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A)   expanded dramatically.
B)   offered higher-paying positions than before.
C)   were virtually nonexistent in cities, even in traditional women's fields such as teaching, secretarial work, and nursing.
D)   existed mainly in the area of education.
E)   tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields.F) None of the above
G) B) and C)

Question 3

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

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A)   capitalism.
B)   new immigration laws passed in 1924.
C)   the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s.
D)   race riots.
E)   the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 4

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

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

Question 5

The leading cultural critic of the 1920s, H.L. Mencken, attacked all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   the South.
B)   patriotism.
C)   technology.
D)   prohibition.
E)   marriage.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

John Dewey

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Question 7

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

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Question 8

During the red scare

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A)   hundreds of immigrant radicals were deported from the United States.
B)   many states passed laws making it a crime to advocate violence.
C)   labor union membership nearly doubled.
D)   several lawfully elected Socialists were denied their seats in the New York State legislature.
E)   the United States threatened war against the revolutionary Soviet Union.F) None of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

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Question 10

The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved

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A)   increasing the level of production.
B)   developing mass markets in America and overseas to create sufficient consumer demand for American manufactured goods being produced during that decade at unprecedented production levels.
C)   reducing the level of government involvement in business.
D)   developing technologically innovative products.
E)   Americans' unwillingness to buy on credit and tap their savings for mass consumer goods.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 11

The prosperity that developed in the 1920s

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A)   was accompanied by a foreboding cloud of consumer debt.
B)   led to a growing level of savings by the American public.
C)   enabled labor unions to gain strength.
D)   was based on a steady and moderate rate of healthy economic growth that did not rely on excessive consumer spending to sustain the prosperity during this decade.
E)   closed the gap between rich and poor.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

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A)   ethnic diversity.
B)   the lack of a reform impulse in America.
C)   the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.
D)   the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.
E)   the growing Communist influence in the labor movement.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 13

The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as

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A)   a celebration of black culture and creative expression of a prominent and vibrant black community in the North.
B)   the migration of Southern blacks to northern sections of New York City.
C)   the movement led by Marcus Garvey.
D)   the effort to resist racism and segregation in the North.
E)   None of these choices are correct.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

How did traditional Christian religious principles and moral values find themselves challenged by cultural liberals and iconoclasts? Why were the themes of these cultural liberals and iconoclasts so threatening to traditional mores and values of Protestant America? How did modernism's various cultural expressions illustrate the iconoclastic, fragmented, and uncertain cultural milieu of the 1920s?

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Question 15

The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   the consolidation of schools.
B)   the increased dependence of women on men.
C)   the spread of suburbs.
D)   a loss of population in less attractive states.
E)   altered youthful sexual behavior.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of John T. Scopes.

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Question 17

Do you think that the noble experiment of Prohibition did more harm than good or vice versa? Explain your view by citing specific consequences of the Prohibition amendment.

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Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of Sherwood Anderson.

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How did the rise of the mass media and marketing affect the kind of people Americans admired and imitated during the 1920s? How did the rise of the mass media, marketing, and advertising affect American consumer habits and spending during the 1920s?

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