Deck 24: Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment

Question 1

During the 1920s, how were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe affected by the new quota system of immigration?

A) They continued to immigrate at the same rate as from 1900 to 1914.
B) They found it much more difficult to immigrate.
C) They found it much easier to immigrate.
D) There was a larger quota for them than they could use.

Answer 1

They found it much more difficult to immigrate.

Question 2

In addition to closing its gates to eastern European immigrants in the 1920s, the United States also

A) prohibited immigration from Canada.
B) experienced increasing anti-Semitism.
C) prohibited immigration from Latin America.
D) experienced decreasing anti-Catholicism.

Answer 2

experienced increasing anti-Semitism.

Question 3

One of the new urban social patterns of the 1920s was the

A) disappearance of the differences between working-class and middle-class family structures.
B) emergence of the idea of intrafamily democracy.
C) absence of serious public discussion about child raising.
D) triumph of patriarchal family values.

Answer 3

emergence of the idea of intrafamily democracy.

Question 4

During the 1920s, young men and women

A) replaced "dating" with "paying a call."
B) were actually more old-fashioned in their sexual behavior than their grandparents.
C) glorified respect for social and parental authority.
D) related in an increasingly relaxed and uninhibited fashion.

Question 5

"The Chicago school" of urban sociology and accounts of the "lady murderesses" Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner reflected societal concerns about

A) birth control.
B) women's delicate "constitutions."
C) city life.
D) the use of alcohol.

Question 6

Feminist Margaret Sanger was one of the

A) leaders of divorce reform.
B) strongest proponents of birth control.
C) major critics of an equal rights amendment.
D) chief opponents of prohibition.

Question 7

Those considered "social feminists" in the 1920s

A) were entirely focused on passing the Equal Rights Amendment.
B) sought protective legislation for working women.
C) were led by Alice Paul.
D) fought doggedly for the liberalization of birth control.

Question 8

After winning the vote, most women in the 1920s

A) made major social and economic gains.
B) eliminated the double standard.
C) lost interest in agitating for change.
D) became actively involved in electoral politics.

Question 9

In the 1920s, ________ led the campaign for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution.

A) Gertrude Ederle
B) Edna St. Vincent Millay
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Alice Paul

Question 10

The 1920s saw immense changes in popular culture because of the two new technologies of

A) telephones and telegraphs.
B) phonographs and televisions.
C) motion pictures and radios.
D) microphones and typewriters.

Question 11

The greatest film star of his era, who won fame as a sad little tramp, was

A) Buster Keaton.
B) Charlie Chaplin.
C) Harold Lloyd.
D) Groucho Marx.

Question 12

During the 1920s, American sports were

A) languishing because people had neither money nor time to devote to them.
B) extraordinarily popular.
C) relatively unaffected by the influence of radio and advertising.
D) still regionally based.

Question 13

The Sac and Fox Indian who was probably the greatest all-around athlete of the twentieth century was

A) Jack Dempsey.
B) "Red" Grange.
C) "Big Bill" Tilden.
D) Jim Thorpe.

Question 14

The "Sultan of Swat" who transformed baseball during the 1920s with his hitting prowess was

A) Babe Ruth.
B) Christy Mathewson.
C) Lou Gehrig.
D) Cy Young.

Question 15

In the 1920s, many rural Americans thought of the new city-oriented culture as

A) encouraging people to turn to Christianity.
B) blighted by sin and materialism.
C) supporting their attempts to preserve traditional values.
D) providing good jobs and economic mobility for their children.

Question 16

Urban-rural tensions of the twenties produced a resurgence of

A) nostalgia for Old World values.
B) religious fundamentalism.
C) agrarian radicalism.
D) urban progressivism.

Question 17

The popular politician who was the greatest asset of religious fundamentalists campaigning against teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in the schools was

A) William Jennings Bryan.
B) Warren G. Harding.
C) Charles Evans Hughes.
D) Theodore Roosevelt.

Question 18

The chief counsel for the defendant, John T. Scopes, in the famous "Monkey Trial" was

A) Louis Brandeis.
B) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
C) Clarence Darrow.
D) William Jennings Bryan.

Question 19

The 1925 Dayton, Tennessee "Monkey Trial" dealt with

A) promoting free speech.
B) limiting freedom of religion.
C) halting cruelty to animals.
D) teaching evolution in the public schools.

Question 20

The prohibition movement was most strongly supported by ________ Americans.

A) rural
B) immigrant
C) working-class
D) Catholic

Question 21

Prohibition was a typical progressive reform because it was

A) strongly supported in rural America.
B) favored by German and Italian immigrants.
C) backed by the working class.
D) designed to frustrate "the interests."

Question 22

The infamous gangster who grabbed wealth and power in Chicago during prohibition was

A) "Machine Gun" Kelly.
B) Al Capone.
C) "Pretty Boy" Floyd.
D) Clyde Barrow.

Question 23

The most horrible example of the social malaise of the 1920s, was the

A) campaign for birth control.
B) intimidation of the red scare.
C) hypocrisy of prohibition.
D) revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

Question 24

A major factor in the collapse of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s was the

A) growing public awareness of its cruelty.
B) federal crack-down on its violence.
C) increase in rural prosperity.
D) increase in ethnically and racially mixed marriages.

Question 25

The literature of the 1920s reflected the

A) hopeful experimentation of the progressives.
B) disillusionment of the intellectuals.
C) romantic innocence of an earlier age.
D) liberal faith in the basic goodness and reasonableness of people.

Question 26

The Sacco-Vanzetti case that inspired many intellectuals implied that American justice had little sympathy towards

A) religious fundamentalism.
B) radicals and aliens.
C) Roman Catholics.
D) unemployed artists.

Question 27

The symbol of the "lost generation" and the author of The Great Gatsby was

A) Ezra Pound.
B) Carl Sandburg.
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
D) Ernest Hemingway.

Question 28

The expatriate novelist Ernest Hemingway

A) was the least talented of the many American expatriates who gained some fame in this era.
B) was most famous for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, This Side of Paradise.
C) had a verbose, rather uncontrolled style which had almost no influence on other writers.
D) portrayed a world of rootless desperation, amorality, and outrage at life's meaninglessness.

Question 29

In an effort to escape postwar life and culture, which of the following authored a portrait of the nineteenth century?

A) Ernest Hemingway
B) Ezra Pound
C) Edna Saint Vincent Millay
D) Edith Wharton

Question 30

America's foremost cynic of the 1920s, who displayed witty contempt for almost everything, was

A) H. L. Mencken.
B) Edith Wharton.
C) Gertrude Stein.
D) Sinclair Lewis.

Question 31

Probably America's most popular novelist of the 1920s, ________ satirized contemporary society in Main Street and Babbitt.

A) H. L. Mencken
B) Sinclair Lewis
C) Ernest Hemingway
D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 32

During the 1920s black Americans experienced

A) increasing union membership.
B) decreasing militancy and activism.
C) discrimination and concentration in northern ghettos.
D) optimism based on gains in civil rights.

Question 33

The leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, whose slogan was "Back to Africa," was

A) Marcus Garvey.
B) W. E. B. Du Bois.
C) Booker T. Washington.
D) Langston Hughes.

Question 34

The flourishing of black literature, theatre, and music during the twenties was known as the

A) Back to Africa Movement.
B) Cotton Club Rebellion.
C) Black Power Movement.
D) Harlem Renaissance.

Question 35

The most important cause of prosperity during the "new era" was the

A) continued federal regulation of the economy.
B) improved efficiency among American manufacturers.
C) almost complete federal deregulation of the economy.
D) program of federal subsidies for basic research.

Question 36

Bruce Barton's best-selling book, The Man Nobody Knows, described

A) Charles Lindbergh's early life as an aviator.
B) Jesus as the founder of modern business.
C) the sexual scandals of the Coolidge administration.
D) Charlie Chaplin's career as a singer.

Question 37

During the 1920s, the ________ industry had the single most important impact on the nation's booming economy.

A) housing
B) steel
C) automobile
D) motion picture

Question 38

The individual most responsible for the growth of the automobile industry was

A) Frank Stearns.
B) Ramson E. Olds.
C) Henry Ford.
D) Rudolph Diesel.

Question 39

It would be accurate to say that Henry Ford

A) realized mass production could make a car cheap enough for the average consumer.
B) was one of America's greatest inventors.
C) campaigned against ignorance and anti-Semitism.
D) was highly popular with most Americans because of his sophistication and devotion to art.

Question 40

Henry Ford believed that an important aspect in increasing output was

A) increasing wages.
B) replacing humans with machines.
C) innovation and new car design.
D) giving workers freedom with little supervision.

Question 41

The almost simultaneous developments in airplanes and automobiles in the early twentieth century were due to the fact that both developments were stimulated by the

A) extensive research funds provided by the federal government.
B) growth of consumer culture.
C) necessity for new weapons in the Great War.
D) invention of the internal combustion engine.

Question 42

In May 1927, the first solo non-stop flight from New York to Paris was made in the Spirit of St. Louis by

A) Malcolm Lockheed.
B) Wilbur Wright.
C) John B. Rae.
D) Charles Lindbergh.

Question 43

In retrospect, the era of the 1920s seems to be clearly a period of

A) rapid transition during which the complex modern world was emerging.
B) peace and tranquility during which Americans shared a fundamental agreement on basic values and issues.
C) foolish innocence during which the major issues confronting the country were ignored.
D) nostalgic retreat to the lost values of an earlier and simpler society.

Question 44

Almost immediately after the end of the Great War there was a flood of European immigrants seeking to enter the United States.

Question 45

"Re-viewing the Past: Chicago," notes that Chicago's tale of illicit sex and "all that jazz" grossly exaggerated the 1920s fascination with "lady murderesses" and the negative impact of city life.

Question 46

During the 1920s the National Woman's party and the social feminists united to push protective legislation for women and children through Congress.

Question 47

Nearly all the prominent political leaders of both parties equivocated shamelessly on the liquor question in the 1920s.

Question 48

Coming after the disappointments of the Great War, the steady gains of the 1920s led to a sense of resignation among many blacks.

Question 49

The prosperity of the "new era" of the 1920s was encouraged by the strongly pro-business attitude of the federal government.

Question 50

Henry Ford published virulent anti-Semitic propaganda.

Question 51

Compare and contrast the new social patterns which emerged in Americans' lives in the 1920s with those social patterns which remained basically unchanged.

Question 52

The 1920s is sometimes seen as a golden age of sports and popular culture. Do you agree or disagree? Support your point of view with evidence from trends, developments, and major figures.

Question 53

Summarize the major urban-rural conflicts of the 1920s. Evaluate the opposing values and assumptions that formed the foundation of these conflicts.

Question 54

Who comprised the "lost generation"? Describe their common characteristics as well as the achievements of some of the major figures.

Question 55

Describe the major technological and economic trends that transformed American society in the 1920s. Describe the leading figures and their accomplishments.

Question 56

What is the definition of the following key term:
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