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