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1
What is the National Origins Act?
Strong patriotic pride
Describes the ground between the two opposing teams
A policy that a nation doesn’t participate in others war
Restricted immigration by a system national quotas
2
What strategy did US leaders use to avoid war?
Win arms race
Forcing Europe to Disarm
Join World Court
Isolationism
3
Whose innovated manufacturing techniques made cars more affordable?
Marcus Garvey
Henry Ford
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
4
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff...
Made possession of alcohol illegal
Increased tariffs on imported goods
Doesn’t exist
Restricted the use of submarine warfare
5
What trial was a clash between science and religion?
Teapot Dome
Jennings
Scopes
Darwin
6
Nativists opposed immigration because they feared:
the loss of jobs
that Americans would be forced out of the country
that an illegal immigrant would become president
a civil war between the U.S. and Mexico
7
The theory of relativity was developed by...
Werner Heisenberg.
Niels Bohr.
Albert Einstein.
Erwin Schrödinger.
8
A period during which the value of stocks increases:
Harlem Renaissance
Bull Market
Bear Market
Prohibition
9
What two presidents favored policies that aided growth of business?
Wilson/Coolidge
Wilson/Harding
Harding/Coolidge
Bush/Obama
10
Charles Lindbergh was the first person to
bring jazz music to the United States.
fly a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
build a railroad across the United States.
go into space and orbit around the moon.
11
Which of the following best describes the concept of Installment Plan/Credit?
"Take it it's free!!"
"Pay Now & Buy later!!"
"Buy now & Pay later!!"
"Make it yourself!!"
12
Psychologist who stressed the importance of the unconscious mind:
Sigmund Freud
Albert B. Fall
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
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Why did Marcus Garvey's movement advocate for?
Racial Justice
Racial separation
Racial integration
Freedom of Jazz
14
Calvin Coolidge became president after ________.
Nixon was impeached
Warren G. Harding died in office
He won the election of 1920
John F. Kennedy was shot
15
1920s cultural outpouring associated with African Americans.
Bull Market
Dawes Plan
Mass Production
Harlem Renaissance
16
President Harding reduced the regulations on businesses put into place by?
Progressives
Democrats
Independents
Republicans
17
Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
two Spanish immigrants arrested for murder in 1920
two Italian immigrants who were arrested for murder in 1920
two polish immigrants arrested for murder in 1920
Two Honduran Immigrants arrested for murder in 1920
18
Where would you find the American movie industry during the twenties?
Michigan
California
Florida
New York
19
What is the Red Scare?
fear of the reign of Putin
fear of the Soviet Union
fear of infiltration
widespread fear of communism or anarchism or radical leftist
20
The demand for these in the 1920's stimulated growth in many other industries.
Stocks
Instruments
Farmers
Automobiles
21
What is a bear market?
a market in which prices are falling, encouraging selling
another term for inflation
when stock prices are neither increasing nor decreasing
market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying
22
In 1933, Congress repealed Prohibition with which amendment?
20th
21st
19th
18th
23
What does Laissez-Faire mean?
Complete government control over business
An economy run by business; free from government involvement
International trade that pushes for less tariffs (taxes)
International trade that pushes for more tariffs (taxes)
24
The writers of the 1920s were referred to as the?
Enlightened
Lost Ones
Lost Generation
Lost Boys
25
What were the "New Women" of the twenties that rejected old morality called?
Flurts
Flappers
Flippers
Floggers
26
At the Washington Naval Conference, world powers agreed to
Prevent the Germans from creating a navy
Limit the size and power of warships
Ban the future use of Uboats
Expand naval power to protect trade
27
What act of Congress contributed to the growth of organized crime?
19th Amendment
1st Amendment
8th Amendment
Prohibition
28
Agreement intended to settle international debts from WWI:
The KKK
The Scopes Trial
The Jazz Singer
The Dawes Plan
29
African Americans in the 1920's faced discrimination, especially in:
North, Jim Crow Laws in effect
South, no work
North, no work
South, Jim Crow Laws in effect
30
Central place for African Americans to voice concerns about racial problems:
Harlem
Chicago
New Orleans
Factory
31
American hybrid of African American and European music form:
Country
Rock
Jazz
Pop
32
Manufacturing method in which each worker performs one step:
Bull Market
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition
Mass Production
33
Warren Harding's return to 'normalcy' can be best described as:
Giving all citizens a voice in their government
Bringing back the main ideas of the Democratic Party
Allowing the production and selling of alcohol
Returning America to the way things were prior to WWI
34
Even though the economy was thriving during the 20's, whose incomes declined?
Politicians
Farmers
Lawyers
Factory Workers
35
Black Tuesday was marked as the beginning of what?
WW1
the Cold War
WW2
the Great Depression
36
Why was the Kellogg-Briand Pact considered useless
it only punished countries that started wars
It made the process of repaying war debts too easy
failed to include several of the strongest military powers
It provided no means of enforcing the "no war" agreement
37
Why was John T. Scopes arrested?
He forgot to pay a fine for past crime
He was too cool for the government.
He was a communist
He taught evolution in a Tennessee school
38
Who went to jail due to the Teapot Dome oil scandal?
Albert Fall
Jim Crow
Charles Forbes
Harry Dougherty
39
What does buying a stock on margin mean?
buying the stock for someone else
purchasing the stock outside the regular stock exchange
borrowing money to help pay for the stock
paying less than the market price of the stock
40
Pitted William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow
The KKK
The Dawes Plan
The Scopes Trial
The Jazz Singer
41
Targeted blacks, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants:
The Scopes Trial
The Jazz Singer
The Dawes Plan
The KKK
42
Buying stock on margin remained profitable as long as:
buyers did not take out loans
stock prices fell
buyers did not acquire collateral
stock prices rose
