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1
During the Great Migration, Afr. Amer. moved from
high employment areas to depressed regions
the South to the North
urban centers to farmland
the Deep South to the west
2
What was the unofficial capital of African American arts and culture?
Portland
Harlem
St. Louis
Detroit
3
The Scopes trial pitted religious beliefs against. . .
fundamentalism
creationism
academic freedom
science
4
What is one reason for increased high school attendance?
more earnings
fewer families relying on children's work
higher incomes
successful industries
5
Who is the science teacher of dared teach evolution in Tennessee?
Michael Williams
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes
6
What is the theory that states that the animals alive today took millions of years to develop
creationism
theory of relativity
fundamentalism
evolution
7
How much money did Lindbergh win when he flew across the Atlantic?
10,000
20,000
25,000
15,000
8
Who is an American war veteran and writer?
Sinclair Lewis
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Miller
F. Scott Fitzgerald
9
Afr. American woman who won acclaim for short stories, poems, plays, and non-fiction works
Zora Neale Hurston
Marcus Garvey
Alice Walker
Aimee Semple McPherson
10
The KKK members associated their Protestant religion with what?
the cultural practices of immigrants
small-town values
women's rights
the spirit of American independence
11
The main goal of the NAACP is
end illiteracy among the nations poor
improve safety conditions for Afr. Amer. line workers
provide access to health care
end discrimination and mistreatment of Afr. Amer. in the US
12
What Magazine celebrated African-American achievements and had a wide range of readers?
A Farewell to Arms
Three Soldiers
God's Trombone
The Crisis
13
Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and other HR writers had the common theme of what?
pacifism in the face of violence
defiance in the face of white prejudice
literature in the public school curriculum
education's ability to help students rise up
14
Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic ocean?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Willa Cather
Edith Wharton
Amelia Earhart
15
What is one way radio helped create a common culture in America?
the radio moved from being a novelty to a luxury
good programming started to be taken advantage of
Radio broke down barriers btwn city folks and rural folks
created a market for the vacuum tube
16
Founder of a group for African-Americans that promoted self-reliance
Marcus Garvey
John Scopes
Zora Neale Hurston
Al Capone
17
Key ideas and beliefs that a person holds are knows as...
ethics
evolution
values
thoughts
18
The unofficial capital of African-American culture is
Detroit
St. Louis
Harlem
Washington D.C.
19
Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?
Amelia Earhart
Charles Lindbergh
Gertrude Stein
Edna St. Vincent Millay
20
Albert Einstein was critical of which Amendment?
the 2nd
the 19th
the 14th
the 18th
21
People who follow strict religious beliefs where known as
fundamentalists
evolutionists
revivalists
creationists
22
The Volstead act was passed to help enforce what?
The 18th Amendment
the Harlem Renaissance movement
women's rights
fundamentalism
23
Prohibition led directly to the rise in what?
a rise in organized crime
WWII
the Great Migration
WWI
24
Most women in rural America approved of flappers
False
True
25
The major relocation of African Americans is known as
The Great Migration
The Move Up
Updraft
Northward Expansion
26
Liquor smuggling was not a big business in Detroit
True
False
27
Young women who defied traditional dress and ideas are referred to as
rebels
flappers
vamps
swankies
28
The producer of a controversial film that, regardless, made movies an art form
D.W. Griffith
John Scopes
Al Capone
Ernest Hemingway
29
What is the "lost generation?"
The generations of women not able to vote before the 20s
the authors who lived in Europe instead of America
The generation of soldiers lost in WWI
30
Who is the most famous prohibition gangster
Al Capone
C. Louis Campagna
Bugs Moran
Frank Capone
31
Racial violence erupted in a number of cities in America after WWI
False
True
32
A key leader in the founding of the NAACP was
Marcus Garvey
Langston Hughes
Aaron Douglas
W.E.B Du Bois
33
The 18th Amendment outlawed
Gambling
Dancing
Alcohol
Jazz Music
34
When African-American soldiers returned from serving in the war, what awaited them?
a shortage of available jobs
decreased racial tensions
a population shift from urban to rural areas
widespread acceptance
35
The African-American Arts movement of the 1920s
The Detroit Uprising
Harlem in Art District
Harlem Renaissance
The DIA
36
Many Harlem Renaissance writers wrote about . . .
pacifism in the face of white prejudice
defiance in the face of white prejudice
37
The automobile spread the effects of urbanization into rural America.
True
False
38
Fundamentalist preacher known for healing the sick
Aimee Semple McPherson
Al Capone
Billy Holiday
Clarence Darrow
39
What was considered Darwin's most controversial idea?
stability within the home
evolution
values
fundamentalism
