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25 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following was not an underlying cause of the stock market crash of 1929?
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Runaway inflation triggered by high union wages had undermined prosperity.
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The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called:
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the Harlem Renaissance.
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Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to:
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normalcy.
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In what legal case did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., declare that the First Amendment did not prevent Congress from prohibiting speech that presented a “clear and present danger”?
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Shenck v. U.S.
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In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public school teacher faced charges of violating the state’s law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?
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the Scopes trial
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Which of the following was not an important cultural trend in 1920s America?
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a growing respect for newly arrived immigrants
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The open shop—a workplace free of unions (except, in some cases, “company unions”) and free of government regulation—was part of the employer-backed:
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American Plan.
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In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest five percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom:
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60 percent
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During the 1920s, a group whose most well-known leader was Billy Sunday and who asserted their conviction in the literal truth of the Bible became known by which term that they coined?
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fundamentalists
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Which was not a consumer good in the 1920s?
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televisions
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The anti-black, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic organization that claimed over 3 million members by the mid-1920s was:
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the Ku Klux Klan.
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Which of the following was not a common means of survival for out-of work Americans during the opening years of the Great Depression?
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drawing federal unemployment benefits
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Who won the presidential election of 1928?
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Herbert Hoover
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Who was the first cabinet member in American history to be convicted of a felony—for accepting nearly $500,000 from businessmen to whom he leased government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming?
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Albert Fall
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The West’s leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was:
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Los Angeles, California
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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Herbert Hoover victory over Alfred E. Smith; stock market crash; Hawley-Smoot tariff; creation of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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An attorney renowned for his contributions to the causes of labor, racial equality, and civil liberties was:
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Clarence Darrow.
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Who said, “the chief business of the American people is business”?
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Calvin Coolidge
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Production of the automobile in the 1920s:
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tripled.
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President Herbert Hoover’s 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did all of the following, except:
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offered direct relief to the unemployed.
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Which of the following was not a part of the Republican political perspective during the 1920s?
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Government regulation of personal behavior does more harm than good.
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The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions “on account of sex” promoted by Alice Paul was:
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the Equal Rights Amendment.
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The 1922 self-imposed guidelines in the film industry that prohibited depicting adultery, nudity, and long kisses, and barred scripts that portrayed clergymen in a negative light was called:
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the Hays code.
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Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression that began in October 1929?
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drastic tariff reductions
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Who were the two immigrants whose case became a cause célèbre, who were arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed?
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Nicola Sacco and Bartholomeo Vanzetti
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