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1
What type of music originated in the city of New Orleans?
Swing
Rock n' Roll
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
2
Who wrote a book criticizing the business practices of Standard Oil Company?
Jane Adams
Upton Sinclair
Herman Hull
Ida Tarbell
3
This was famous area in New York City was a hotbed of music performance and music publishing.
The Street of Dreams
Harlem
Bowery
Tin Pan Alley
4
Jane Addams created a center for the underprivileged. What was this center called?
YMCA
Chicago Settlement
Community Center
Hull House
5
The Great Migration to northern cities during WW1 occurred by what group of people?
Japanese Americans
Chinese Immigrants
African Americans
Jewish Immigrants
6
What pledge did Germany give to the U.S. in return for diplomatic relations?
Armistice Alliance
Fourteen Points
Sussex Pledge
Paris Peace Plan
7
The ____ Amendment, ratified in 1913, provided for direct election of U.S. Senators.
16th
19th
18th
17th
8
What was the main reason for labor unrest after WW1?
The Anarchist Uprising
decline in economy after WWI
The Red Scare
The Communist Manifesto
9
An increase in nativist attitudes resulted in the conviction of these two men in the 1920’s.
Leo Frank and Mitchell Palmer
Pershing and Churchill
Armstrong and Ellington
Sacco and Vanzetti
10
Name the system of rules in the South made segregation and discrimination the law of the land.
Apartheid
Jim Crow Laws
The Plessy Policies
11
Name the type of warfare, during WW1, where battle lines were at a standstill (or stalemate).
Gorilla Warfare
Mechanized Warfare
Trench Warfare
Traditional Warfare
12
What process allows voters to put a proposed new law by collecting voters signatures?
Veto
Referendum
Initiative
Recall
13
What was the doctrine accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson?
"separate but equal"
"one person, one vote"
"equality under the law"
"fairness"
14
The immigrants effected by the quota laws of the 1920’s were mainly from_____________.
Japan
China
Australia
Southern and Eastern Europe
15
One name given to the 1920’s, due to the music of the time period was the “____________.”
Jazz Age
Swing Age
Charleston Age
Flapper Generation
16
The most famous writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance was ____________.
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Irving Berlin
Duke Ellington
17
What was the main problem that arose from Prohibition?
Speakeasies
Slow production in factories
Organized crime and gangs
Domestic Abuse
18
What was President Wilson’s plan to ensure lasting peace called?
Paris Peace Plan
Fourteen Points
Alien and Sedition Acts
19
What two inventions, during the 1920’s, led to a celebrity culture?
IPod and Internet
Radio and Movies
Phonograph and light bulb
Movies and automobile
20
The Harlem Renaissance was a literary ‘awakening’ among this ethnic group of Americans.
Russian Americans
Japanese Americans
Chinese Americans
African Americans
21
What U.S. socialist was imprisoned for 10 years under the Alien & Sedition laws?
Alvin York
Charles Lindbergh
“Black Jack” Pershing
Eugene V. Debs
22
What was the name given to the post-WW1 period of anti-communist hysteria?
WWI
The Great Depression
The Communist Uprising
The Red Scare
23
What did Upton Sinclair’s book, “The Jungle” bring to America’s attention?
domestic abuse
the Standard Oil Company
the Hull House
the meatpacking industry
24
Those who protested the government during WW1 were arrested and imprisoned due to these laws.
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Palmer Raids
25
The fear of the spread of communism in the late 1910s and early 1920s resulted from this event.
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The sinking of the Lusitania
stock market crash
Russian Revolution
26
Which amendment established Prohibition?
16th
17th
19th
18th
27
American men did not want American women to vote because they
felt women were not intelligent enough
believed women would approve birth control and prohibition
All of the above
felt that voting was by nature a “masculine” task
28
What Constitutional Amendment gave American women the right to vote?
19th
18th
17th
16th
29
Wilson persuaded Germany to stop unrestricted submarine warfare by threatening to
impose a blockade of Germany.
begin a trade embargo against Germany.
break off all diplomatic relations between U.S. and Germany.
declare war against Germany.
30
Who first used the assembly line to produce automobiles quickly and cheaply?
Henry Ford
The Dodge Brothers
Harvey Scopes
Louis Sacco
31
26. The most famous trumpeter of the Jazz Age was _____________.
Irving Berlin
Louis Armstrong “Satchmo”
Vanzetti
Duke Ellington
32
Which of the following factors most influenced the US change from neutrality towar declaration?
Germany’s signing of a separate peace treaty with Russia
Germany’s decision to use of unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany’s decision to use poison gas as a battlefield weapon
Germany’s issuance of the Sussex pledge
33
Why did many U.S. Senators refuse to accept U.S. involvement in the League of Nations?
force the U.S. to give up its colonies.
grant the President the power to annex new territories.
Fear of U.S. involvement in future wars without Congress
endanger U.S. economic growth.
34
The fight for women’s suffrage in the U.S. was successfully led by what two groups?
The Republicans and the Democrats
National Seamstress Union and the Equal Rights Association
National Women’s Party and NAWSA
American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP
35
What was the name of the organization of nations settled disputes President Wilson proposed?
United Nations
Armistice Alliance
League of Nations
36
Who was the American songwriter, who composed “God Bless America” and “White Christmas?”
Irving Berlin
Mitchell Palmer
Duke Ellington
Langston Hughes