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American Life in the 1920's
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1
What law gave Native Americans citizenship in 1924?
14th Amendment
Immigration Act of 1924
Removal Act of 1924
Native American Citizenship Act of 1924
2
The Palmer Raids on suspected communist enemies of the United States was a part of the?
Red Scare
Socialist Uprising
May 1 Scare
Communist American Revolt
3
What new kind of consumer financing and spending made its debut in the 1920's?
Minimum Wage
Online Stock Trading
Consumer Credit
Job Guarantee
4
The development of the assembly line and mass production of goods during and after WW I led to?
Reduced automobile ownership
Less productivity in factories
Increasing standard of living and wages for employees
Increased unemployment
5
Buying $10,000 of stock with $1,000 down was buying stock on?
Capital
Loan
Cheap
Margin
6
Fear of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe helped to led to the Immigration Act of 1924
False
True
7
Which was NOT an anti-immigrant attitudes contributed to social unrest in the United States after WW I?
Immigration quotas established by the government
Increased violence and intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan
New immigrants received jobs from the Works Proress Administration
A growing feeling of hositlity to immigrants
8
A major cause of the Great Depression was workers going on strike against large corporations?
True
False
9
How did mass production in American industry help the economic middle class of the United States in the 1920s?
reduce car ownership
increase standard of living
allowed corporations to construct more homes
led to the Great Depression
10
Which is NOT a result of increased use of automobiles after World War I?
Increased use of gasoline
Growth of surburban areas outside of major cities
Urban traffic congestion
Increased rail traffic
11
The flowering of African American literature and music in NYC in the 1920s was known as the?
Birth of the Blues
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
New York Renaissance
12
Movement of African Americans from the South to the North from 1920-1970 is known as?
Westward Expansion
Great Migration
Immigration Act
Freedom of Migration
13
Which part of the US military was somewhat neglected by the government in the 1920s?
US Space Force
US Army Air Corps
US Army
US Navy
14
The fear that Communism would take over the United States after World War I, somewhat fueled by anarchist bombings was?
Red Scare
Bolshevik Revolution
McCarthyism
Reindeer Games
15
How many immigrants are allowed to enter the United States as a result of the Immigration Act of 1924
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165,000
3 million
50,000
16
The economic system that would distribute all resources in a society equally is known as?
Communism
Democracy
Authoritarianism
Capitalism
17
What international agreement tried to limit the size of massive battleships in the hopes of avoiding war after WW I?
Kellogg Briand Pact
Washington Naval Conference
Treaty of Versailles
Good Neigbor Policy
18
What was a result of the passage of the 18th amendment and prohibition?
More organized crime took place with illegal alcohol
Less women were elected to public office
People were no longre free to criticize the government during wartime
More sin taxes were collected
19
What was the purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Prohibits selling arms to Communist countries
Prohibits monopolies and insider trading
Prohibits use of a war of aggression as national policy
Prohibits making deals with Germany and Japan
20
Which was NOT a reason for the Great Migration?
increase availability of manufacturing jobs
institutionalization of Jim Crows laws in the American South
increase demand for agricultural labor
expanded cultural experience
21
Which ethnic group was prevented from immigrating to the United States by the Immigration Act of 1924?
British Islanders
Italians
Russians
Chinese
22
Which country would have been allowed the most immigrants under the Immigration Act of 1924?
China
Poland
Great Britain
Mexico
23
Which is the best explanation of why the stock market crashed in October 1929?
Workers were constantly striking against major manufacturers
So much money was in the stock market that stock prices were overvalued
Corporations pulled the money from stock they owned from other businesses
Government shut down the stock market because of corruption
24
What was an effect of racism in the South during Jim Crow?
Women were not allowed to participate in K-12 sports
Federal troops left the South at then end of Reconstruction
African Americans migrated north
Schools were allowed to freely desegregate
25
The Stock Market crash of 1929 happened over a period of time from March to October 1929.
False
True
26
From the end of World War I to the 1970's, large numbers of African-Americans moved from the south to the north.This is?
NAACP Migration
Tukegee Movement
Great Migration
Harlem Renaissance
27
Which is NOT example of American consumer economics from the 1920s
Corporations building homes for their employees
Buying a home on a mortgage
Having a radio
Having new consumer appliances
28
One of the contributing events of the the 1929 stock market crash was?
Very high federal income taxes
Less consumer appliances were available
High tariffs on goods from overseas
Many people could not pay their margin calls
29
What is an example of a Jim Crow law?
All races could freely sit in bus waiting rooms
African Americans are denied US citizenship
African Americans must attend separate schools from whites
All children regardless of race are able to attend the same school
30
The court case Plessy v Ferguson allowed for what kind of laws in the American South?
Laws that gave civil rights to all African-Americans
Laws that separated whites and African-Americans
Voting laws for people over 18
Changes to immigration laws to allow people from China