US History II - Chaps. 12 & 13

Question 1

All of these were new technologies of the time EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Airplanes

Question 2

African-American woman wrote of women's struggles & racial inequality through asserting oneself

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 3

Which of the following is a 1920’s fad?

Accepted Answer

Pole sitting

Question 4

The Harlem Renaissance gave the white culture all of these EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Food

Question 5

This raised tax on imports to its highest level ever, almost 60%...

Accepted Answer

Fordney-McCumber Tariff

Question 6

The Harlem Renaissance was an expression of:

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African-American culture

Question 7

Which of these countries was NOT considered one of the 5 major naval powers at the time?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 8

The slogan “Enjoy while you pay” lured consumers into:

Accepted Answer

Buying items on credit

Question 9

Senator from Ohio becomes President in 1920 and promoted a "Return to Normalcy".

Accepted Answer

Warren Harding

Question 10

Interior Sec. who managed to get oil reserves transferred & touched off the Teapot Dome Scandal

Accepted Answer

Albert Fall

Question 11

US President after Harding

Accepted Answer

Calvin Coolidge

Question 12

All of these are changes that affected families during the 1920’s EXCEPT:

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Divorce decreased

Question 13

Arrangement of a buyer to pay over time without putting much money down at the time of purchase

Accepted Answer

Installment Plan

Question 14

All of these are ways the automobile impacted American life EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Increased mass transportation

Question 15

This is a person who opposes all forms of government...

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Anarchist

Question 16

Marcus Garvey hoped African-Americans could attain equality by all of these EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Education

Question 17

This was the fashionable “ideal” woman of the 1920’s:

Accepted Answer

Flapper

Question 18

Some of Harding’s chief administrators negatively affected his term by:

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Acceptance of bribes

Question 19

This is the set of principals granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women

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Double Standard

Question 20

Trends of the 1920’s were most likely to reduce women’s employment in:

Accepted Answer

Agriculture

Question 21

US Sec. of State in Harding's admin; later went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

Charles Evans Hughes

Question 22

The first woman to swim across the English Channel

Accepted Answer

Gertrude Ederle

Question 23

This is the unplanned and uncontrolled spread of cities into surrounding areas

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Urban Sprawl

Question 24

This African-American writer focused the hardships of everyday life

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Langston Hughes

Question 25

This Protestant movement included the literal interpretation of the Bible

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Fundamentalism

Question 26

All of these were the main goals of the KKK at this time EXCEPT:

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Arrange advantageous marriages for their children

Question 27

This is a person in who believes in government ownership of all enterprises

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Communist

Question 28

US Attorney General who took on the Red Scare and hired J. Edgar Hoover

Accepted Answer

A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 29

The first solo trans-Atlantic flight was made by:

Accepted Answer

Charles Lindbergh

Question 30

This person wrote the Communist Manifesto:

Accepted Answer

Karl Marx

Question 31

The Attorney General who decided to combat the "Red Scare"

Accepted Answer

Mitchell Palmer

Question 32

In 1925 a biology teacher challenged Tennessee state law by teaching evolution

Accepted Answer

Scopes Trial

Question 33

This novelist coined the term "Jazz Age" and wrote The Great Gatsby

Accepted Answer

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Question 34

The US government supported the automobile by subsidizing:

Accepted Answer

Construction of roads like Highway 66

Question 35

The influx of African-Americans into northern cities caused all of these EXCEPT:

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Reduction in Ku Klux Klan activity

Question 36

Post-war striking workers were often portrayed as:

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Communists

Question 37

He is father of "scat" music, using nonsense words or sounds instead of words

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Louie Armstrong

Question 38

Corrupt and scandalous members of Warren Harding's administration

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Ohio Gang

Question 39

Person in opposition to all forms of political and economic entanglements with other countries:

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Isolationist

Question 40

In 1920’s America immigrants were often treated with....

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Suspicion

Question 41

The 1920 census revealed that most Americans chose to live in:

Accepted Answer

Urban areas

Question 42

This is a 1929 agreement of 64 nations to renounce war as a means to solve international events

Accepted Answer

Kellog-Briand

Question 43

This enabled people to buy goods over an extended period of time:

Accepted Answer

Installment Plan

Question 44

Which US President died in office?

Accepted Answer

Warren Harding

Question 45

This was the scandal involving the lease of oil-rich lands:

Accepted Answer

Teapot Dome

Question 46

This term is related to Prohibition

Accepted Answer

Speakeasy

Question 47

This sets limits on how many immigrants from various countries may enter each year

Accepted Answer

Quota System

Question 48

Attorney who championed the theory of evolution

Accepted Answer

Clarence Darrow

Question 49

American fundamentalists opposed educators teaching:

Accepted Answer

Evolution

Question 50

These are all ways bootleggers made money during Prohibition EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

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US History II - Chaps. 12 & 13

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US History II - Chaps. 12 & 13

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