Businesspeople used the red scare to...

break the backs of fledgling unions.

Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his...

promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management.

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of...

natives figured Northern Europeans were above southern/eastern Europeans.

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against...

forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.

The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved...

developing technologically innovative products.

The prosperity that developed in the 1920s...

was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt.

The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except...

the increased dependence of women on men.

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by...

the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution.

"Cultural pluralists" like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that...

immigrants should be able to keep their past culture rather than change it

Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except...

enter a decade of economic difficulties.

Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton...

believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time.

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because...

his wholesome contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age.

All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except...

government stimulation of the economy.

The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against...

southern and eastern Europeans.

The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of...

teaching evolution in public schools.

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial,"...

fundamentalist religion stayed a vibrant force in American spiritual life.

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1
Businesspeople used the red scare to...
break the backs of fledgling unions.
secure passage of laws making unions illegal.
establish closed shops throughout the nation.
break the railroad strike of 1919.
2
Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his...
efforts to clean up polluted cities.
development of the gasoline engine.
promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management.
thoughts on Darwinian evolution.
3
The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was...
Roman Catholicism
evangelical Protestantism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Lutheranism
4
Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources except...
agents from U.S. railroads.
agents from steamship lines.
letters from friends and relatives.
Catholic missionaries.
5
Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of...
natives figured Northern Europeans were above southern/eastern Europeans.
the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.
increased migration of blacks to the North.
a desire to rid the country of the quota system.
6
Most Americans assumed that prohibition...
would be permanent.
would soon be overturned.
would be a total failure.
could never be enforced in the South.
7
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against...
the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s.
forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.
new immigration laws were passed in 1924.
race riots.
8
The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved...
increasing the level of production.
reducing the level of government involvement in the business.
developing technologically innovative products.
developing expanded markets for people to buy their products.
9
The prosperity that developed in the 1920s...
was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt.
led to a growing level of savings by the American public
enabled labor unions to gain strength.
was concentrated primarily in heavy industry.
10
The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was...
New York City
Las vegas
Chicago
New Orleans
11
The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except...
the increased dependence of women on men.
the consolidation of schools.
altered youthful sexual behavior.
a loss of population in less attractive states.
12
Which of the following was not among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile?
Rubber
Highway construction
aluminum
glass
13
The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by...
the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution.
evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation.
the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.
the strict enforcement of prohibition laws.
14
Of the following, the one least related to the other four is...
Frederick W. Taylor.
John T. Scopes.
William Jennings Bryan.
Clarence Darrow.
15
Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new "sports industry" in the 1920s were...
Al Jolson and Margaret Sanger.
Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh
John L. Sullivan and William Cody.
Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey.
16
"Cultural pluralists" like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that...
immigrants should be able to keep their past culture rather than change it
English should establish as the official language of the United States.
immigrants to the US must be politically loyal to their origin nations.
diverse religious beliefs could coexist peacefully in the United States.
17
John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of __________"
the research university
evolutionary science
progressive education
modem psychoanalysis
18
Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry was...
design changes that improved speed.
installment credit buying of cars.
relatively cheap automobiles.
an enormous variety of automobile models with varied colors and styles.
19
Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except...
condemn "un-American" lifestyles.
denounce "radical" foreign ideas.
enter a decade of economic difficulties.
shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries.
20
One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was...
ethnic diversity.
the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.
the lack of a reform impulse in America.
the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.
21
Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton...
believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time.
thought Christ taught the proper use of money.
saw Christ as someone who practiced the Golden Rule.
respected Christ's image of self-sacrifice.
22
Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because...
Americans were impressed by daredevil stunts.
his wholesome contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age.
he and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh made such an appealing couple.
his political principles were widely admired.
23
All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except...
perfection of assembly-line production.
government stimulation of the economy.
the rapid expansion of capital.
increased productivity of workers.
24
The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against...
Latin Americans.
southern and eastern Europeans.
Asians.
Jews.
25
According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to...
reduce permissiveness in the classroom.
educate a student for life.
teach the biblical theory of Creation.
emphasize the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic.
26
The most tenacious pursuer of "radical" elements during the red scare was...
Frederick W. Taylor.
A. Mitchell Palmer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
William Jennings Bryan.
27
Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from...
Southerners
Women
Eastern city Dwellers
Westerners
28
The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of...
the right of parochial schools to exist.
teachers' membership in the Ku Klux Klan.
teaching evolution in public schools.
progressive education.
29
The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except...
opposition to prohibition.
repression of pacifists.
fundamentalist religion.
opposition to birth control.
30
After the Scopes "Monkey Trial,"...
fundamentalist religion stayed a vibrant force in American spiritual life.
the gap between theology and biology began to close.
John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail.
fundamentalism disappeared outside the rural South.

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