Deck 31: American Life in the 'Roaring Twenties' 1919-1929

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Jelly Roll" Morton

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Ford

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sigmund Freud

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Mellon

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Horace Kallen

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Lindbergh

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
D.W.Griffiths

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jack Dempsey

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Al Capone

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Margaret Sanger

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Frederick W.Taylor

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Randolph Bourne

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bruce Barton

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Dewey

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Clarence Darrow

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George H.Ruth

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
A.Mitchell Palmer

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John T.Scopes

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eugene O'Neill

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Langston Hughes

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
H.L.Mencken

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Faulkner

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Claude McKay

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sherwood Anderson

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ku Klux Klan

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nativist

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sinclair Lewis

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Zora Neale Hurston

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
red scare

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ernest Hemingway

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Willa Cather

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
cultural pluralism

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bolshevik revolution

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Edith Wharton

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
progressive education

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Marcus Garvey

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sacco and Vanzetti case

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
F.Scott Fitzgerald

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Volstead Act

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Jazz Singer

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Man Nobody Knows

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Birth of a Nation

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Immigration Act of 1924

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Model T

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Amos 'n' Andy

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
national origins quota system

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bible Belt

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fordism

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
cultural pluralism

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"melting pot"

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fundamentalists

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Birth of a Nation

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
scientific management

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Weary Blues

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lindbergh Law

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United Negro Improvement Association

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Equal Rights Amendment

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Harlem Renaissance

Question 61

The Ku Klux Klan virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when

A) the immigration restriction laws of the early 1920s were repealed.
B) the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.
C) the advent of radio led to a new level of public knowledge and tolerance.
D) the Klan proved unable to implement its program.
E) both political parties sharply criticized the Klan as un-American.

Question 62

During the 1920s and after,many American immigrant ethnic groups

A) rapidly assimilated into the mainstream of American life.
B) sought to escape urban poverty by migrating to rural areas.
C) lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters.
D) maintained a greater loyalty to the old country than to the United States.
E) sought political autonomy and official recognition by the U.S. government.

Question 63

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

A) capitalism.
B) new immigration laws passed in 1924.
C) the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s.
D) race riots.
E) the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.

Question 64

The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except

A) fundamentalist religion.
B) opposition to birth control.
C) opposition to prohibition.
D) repression of pacifists.
E) anti-Catholicism.

Question 65

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

A) the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.
B) urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition.
C) public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation.
D) the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.
E) Russian Communism's threat to American security.

Question 66

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

A) denounce radical foreign ideas.
B) condemn un-American life-styles.
C) struggle to achieve economic prosperity.
D) shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries.
E) restrict immigration.

Question 67

The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against

A) Canadians and West Indians.
B) northern and western Europeans.
C) Latin Americans.
D) Jews and Muslims.
E) southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.

Question 68

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

A) increased migration of blacks to the North.
B) the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans.
C) a desire to rid the country of the quota system.
D) the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.
E) growing concern about urban overcrowding and crime.

Question 69

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

A) ethnic diversity.
B) the lack of a reform impulse in America.
C) the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.
D) the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.
E) the growing Communist influence in the labor movement.

Question 70

The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was

A) Eastern Orthodoxy.
B) Lutheranism.
C) evangelical Protestantism.
D) Roman Catholicism.
E) Judaism.

Question 71

The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was

A) Frederick W. Taylor.
B) William Jennings Bryan.
C) J. Edgar Hoover.
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
E) A. Mitchell Palmer.

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Great Gatsby

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Sun Also Rises

Question 74

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Sound and the Fury

Question 75

With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s,the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except

A) secret rituals.
B) its Catholicism.
C) flag-waving parades.
D) the blazing cross.
E) the bloodied lash.

Question 76

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

A) women.
B) immigrants and big-city residents.
C) westerners and southerners.
D) businesspeople and labor leaders.
E) evangelical Protestants.

Question 77

Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that

A) Spanish and German should be recognized as official languages of the United States along with English.
B) diverse religious beliefs could coexist peacefully in the United States.
C) immigrants to the United States could remain politically loyal to their original nations.
D) immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot.
E) a varied American cultural life should resist the bland standardization of mass culture.

Question 78

Businesspeople used the red scare to

A) establish closed shops throughout the nation.
B) break the backs of fledgling unions.
C) break the railroad strike of 1919.
D) secure passage of laws making unions illegal.
E) refuse to hire communists.

Question 79

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Winesburg,Ohio

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Babbitt