Question 1

In the 1920s,artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance

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A)   drew heavily from their African heritage.
B)   both drew heavily from their African heritage and included writers Edna Ferber and Ezra Pound.
C)   sought to inspire civil disobedience to further racial justice.
D)   None of these answers is correct.
E)   included writers Edna Ferber and Ezra Pound.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 2

In 1928,Democratic candidate Al Smith was the first Democrat since the Civil War not to carry the entire South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Throughout the 1920s,the federal government

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A)   supported the right of workers to organize as unions.
B)   experienced a budget decrease, yet an increase in debt.
C)   saw leaders of business take prominent positions in the federal government.
D)   saw an increase in the budget and the national debt.
E)   isolated itself from the business community.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 4

Which of the following is true of the passage and application of the Eighteenth Amendment,which prohibited the sale of alcohol?

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A)   Many of the middle-class progressives who had originally supported prohibition began to oppose the experiment.
B)   All these answers are correct.
C)   Organized crime gained exclusive access to an enormous, lucrative industry.
D)   It reduced drinking in some areas of the country.
E)   It remained in effect for thirteen years.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 5

By the end of the 1920s,there were 60 million automobiles in the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What did the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance mean for African American culture? What were the contributions of some of its leading figures?

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Question 7

During the 1920s,wages for American workers

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A)   generally enabled a working-class family to thrive on a single income.
B)   generally decreased as the labor market became tighter.
C)   rose most quickly for unskilled workers.
D)   generally rose at a rate far below increases in production and profits.
E)   equaled or exceeded the rate of production growth.F) A) and E)
G) All of the above

Question 8

In the 1920s,the idea of agricultural "parity" was

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A)   to equalize the average farmer income with the average industrial worker income.
B)   strongly opposed by Congress.
C)   to match crop production with demand.
D)   invalidated by the passage of the McNary-Haugen Bill.
E)   to ensure farmers would at least financially break even.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

As president,Warren Harding

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A)   was unable to abandon the party hacks who had brought him to success.
B)   had no sense of his own intellectual limits.
C)   sought a revival of progressive reform.
D)   proposed the United States join the League of Nations.
E)   saw his administration end with his defeat in a bid for reelection in 1924.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 10

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between

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A)   blacks and whites.
B)   creationism and evolution.
C)   urban and rural society.
D)   U.S. Steel and the Amalgamated Steelworkers' Union.
E)   nativists and immigrants.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 11

During the 1920s,the trend toward industrial consolidation

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A)   bypassed the steel and automobile industries.
B)   encouraged new competition.
C)   emerged most rapidly in industries that were less dependent on technology.
D)   was most pronounced in industries dependent on large-scale mass-production.
E)   slowed considerably throughout the decade.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

Calvin Coolidge

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A)   claimed that Theodore Roosevelt was his political role model.
B)   had no political experience prior to becoming vice president in 1920.
C)   was less active a president than Warren Harding.
D)   lost his party's bid for another nomination in the election of 1928.
E)   believed the federal government should actively promote the social welfare of Americans.F) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 13

The American Federation of Labor began turning away from the idea of craft unions.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

In what ways were working Americans of the 1920s better off? How were they worse off?

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Question 15

In the 1920s,the "flapper" lifestyle

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A)   was applauded by most progressive suffragists.
B)   was largely rejected by upper-class women.
C)   had a particular impact on urban lower-middle-class and working-class single women.
D)   was largely reserved for upper-class women.
E)   was simply a clothing fad.F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

Question 16

How did the status of organized labor change between 1919 and 1929?

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Question 17

Who were the prominent American writers in the 1920s? Why did a number of these writers express negative views of society?

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Question 18

In the 1920s bestseller,The Man Nobody Knows,Jesus Christ was portrayed as

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A)   a salesman.
B)   100% American.
C)   embodying Republican values.
D)   a prophet who would oppose consumerism.
E)   a capitalist.F) D) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 19

In the 1920s,the development of practical radio communication was furthered by

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A)   its ability to receive more than just simple pulses.
B)   both the theory of modulation and the use of vacuum tubes.
C)   All these answers are correct.
D)   the use of vacuum tubes.
E)   the theory of modulation.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 20

As secretary of commerce,Herbert Hoover considered himself

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A)   a champion of business cooperation.
B)   a paragon of conservative America.
C)   an internationalist in the tradition of Woodrow Wilson.
D)   an enemy of wealth and privilege.
E)   a believer in passive government.F) C) and D)
G) All of the above

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