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Holt McDougal, The Americans, Ch. 12, Politics and the Roaring Twenties
Holt McDougal, The Americans, Ch. 12, Politics and the Roaring Twenties
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____ is prejudice against foreign-born people
communism
nationalism
imperalism
nativism
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Smuggler who brought and distributed illegal alcohol in US.
Bootlegger
Gun-runner
Racqueteer
Forty-niner
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First American to win Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel
Babbitt.
George Gershwin
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
4
Which Amendment banned the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol?
19th
18th
21st
20th
5
Protestant & nativist, their religious beliefs were challenged by Darwin's theory of evolution
Fundamentalists
Episcopalians
Catholics
Buddhists
6
Best-known poet of Harlem Renaissance he wrote about lives of working class African-Americans
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
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Founded 1909 it sought to protect Afr-Amer from racial violence by pushing anti-lynching laws
NAWSA
NASA
NOW
NAACP
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Nativist sentiments led to law setting max. nmbr of ppl who could enter US from each country
Immigration and Naturalization Act
Gentlemen's Agreement
Chinese Exclusion Act
Emergency Quota Act
9
People opposed to any form of government are known as
isolationists
communists
anacharists
democrats
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1919: Widespread labor unrest, several bombings, and the Communist revolution in Russia led to
isolationism
urban sprawl
the Red Scare
the Teapot Dome scandal
11
Underground or well-hidden saloons and nightclubs that sprung up after Prohibition started
speakeasies
Harlem Renaissance
quota system
gold towns
12
ACLU lawyer, the most famous trial lawyer of the time, hired to defend John T. Scopes
Calvin Coolidge
Clarence Darrow
Herbert Hoover
William Jennings Bryan
13
A set of cultural rules of behavior that gave men greater freedoms than women
assimilation
double standard
Victorian principles
feminism
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3-time Presidential candidate & devout fundamentalist he was special prosecutor at Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
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B/C of WWI women worked new jobs, wore new fashions, acted more independently, &
got the right to vote
got the right to drink
got equal pay for equal work
got the right to serve in military combat
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1921: Charles Evans Hughes Harding's Sec. of State suggested worldwide disarmament to include
moratorium on building new ships
the Fordney-McCumber Act
the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
scrapping all battleships, cruiser, and aircraft carriers
17
A HS biology teacher challenged a law in Tenn. prohibiting teaching of evolution which led to
Prohibition
the Scopes (monkey) trial
Showboating
Bootlegging
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_____ is when cities spread in all directions
tenement
suburb
urban sprawl
gilded age
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The Ku Klux Klan gained support in the cities in the 1920s because
immigration was at an all-time high
all of the above
immigrants were resented for disrupting traditional values
new immigrants were resented for taking jobs
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One result of nativists' attitudes and the Red Scare of 1919 was
the Fordney-McCumber Tariff
the Teapot Dome scandal
the arrest and subsequent executiion of Sacco & Vanzetti
the immediate deportation of all illegal immigrants
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1919: workers demanded wage increases, shorter working hours, & collective bargaining rights in
all of the above
US Steel Mills Strike
Boston Police Strike
Coal Miners' Strike
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Why was there racial unrest in Northern cities after WWI?
Great Migration to N & returning vets caused job competition
Afr-Amer got the right to vote for the 1st time
Afr-Amer ball players were playing on white teams
immigrants from E. Europe caused tensions with Afr-Amer
23
To enforce Prohibition Congress passed this law which was too underfunded to succeed
Roosevelt Corollary
Emancipation Proclamation
Espionage and Sedition Act
Volstead Act
24
President Harding's poker-playing buddies who caused him embarrassment through scandals were
Brown Sugar
Kitchen cabinet
the Ohio gang
Ginger Group
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It liberated isolated rural families, allowed commuting from suburbs, & changed Amer landscapes
electrical conveniences
modern advertising
airplane industry
automobile
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____ enabled people to buy goods over an extended period.
Joint stock companies
installment plan
excise tax
Marshall plan
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Which groups did not generally participate in the prosperity of the 1920s?
stock brokers and automobile workers
bankers and construction workers
manufactureres and real estate developers
minorities and railroad workers
28
What did Afr-Amer writers, artists, & musicians hope to achieve during the Harlem Renaissance?
reveal conditions in So were almost as bad as in No
show that Afr-Amer could produce great works of art and lit
show that pursuit of material success often leads to tragedy
display their ability as conscientious workers in workplace
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What did Washington Naval Conference, 9-Power Treaty, and Kellogg-Briand Pact have in common?
attempts at promoting world peace without League of Nations
a series of naval disarmament treaties involving WWI Allies
disarmament treaties limiting number of tanks & airplanes
created secret alliances with former Allied & Central Powers
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Passed in 1922 this tariff raised taxes to 60% on imported goods to protect American business
Tariff of Abominations
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Tariff of 1816
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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Which Amendment repealed Prohibition in 1933?
20th
22nd
19th
21st
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Immigrant from Jamaica he encouraged black pride & founding of separate black nation in Africa
James Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
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This literary & artistic movement celebrated African-American culture in the 1920s
Greenwich Art Society
Harlem Renaissance
Hudson River School
Ashcan School
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Elected after Harding he fit the pro-business spirit of 1920s & continued laissez-faire govt
Calvin Coolidge
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Communism is an economic and political system based on a double-party government
False
True
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This is the policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs
imperalism
nationalism
isolationism
Red Scare
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A group devoted to "100% Americanism," by 1924 their membership reached 4.5 million
Populists
Ku Klux Klan
Bull Moose Party
American Federation of Labor
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Rejection of the League of Nations, higher tariffs & the Quota Act all point to
increasing isolationalism
increasing internationalism
increasing imperialism
increasing militarism
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The most spectacular example of corruption caused by Albert Fall of the Ohio gang was
Petticoat Affair
Teapot Dome
Credit Mobilier
Watergate
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The "Grand Experiment" to ban the sale and distribution of alcohol in the US from 1920-33.
Prohibition
Transcendentalism
Progressivism
Muckracking
