Deck 9: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

Question 1

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

Answer 1

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Question 2

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

Answer 2

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Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
George H. ("Babe") Ruth

Answer 3

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Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​American plan

Question 28

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

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nativist

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​modernism

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​criminal syndicalism laws

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

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:
​racketeers

Question 50

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

Question 51

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

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Eighteenth Amendment

Question 53

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

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fundamentalism

Question 55

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

Question 56

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Fordism

Question 59

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

Question 60

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

Question 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"​Lost Generation"

Question 62

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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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) Eugene Debs.
D) Robert La Follette.
E) A. Mitchell Palmer.

Question 66

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

Question 67

The Ku Klux Klan nearly 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 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Babbitt

Question 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

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

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

Question 72

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

Question 73

Businesspeople used the red scare to

A) oppose enactment of the American plan.
B) break the backs of fledgling unions.
C) campaign for the enactment of the "closed" shop.
D) secure passage of laws making unions legal.
E) reduce prices on consumer goods for Americans.

Question 74

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

Question 75

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 76

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

Question 77

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) lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt.
C) flag-waving parades.
D) the blazing cross.
E) the bloodied lash.

Question 78

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

A) immigration restrictions against "non-native" Americans.
B) anti-Semitism.
C) opposition to prohibition.
D) repression of pacifists.
E) anti-Catholicism.

Question 79

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 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​National Woman's party