APUSH Chapter 30
Jazz music was developed by
American blacks.
Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his
promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management.
The long-term outcome of the Scopes "Monkey Trial"
represented, at best, a hollow victory for Fundamentalism because it cast ridicule of the fundamentalist cause and highlighted the dubious rationality of a relying on a literal theological reading of the Bible to overturn the findings of modern science.
The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against
southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese
Buying stock on margin meant purchasing
stock on credit with only a small down payment.
Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except
struggle to achieve economic prosperity
The leading cultural critic of the 1920s, H.L. Mencken, attacked all of the following except
technology.
John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of _______."
progressive education
Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources except
Protestant missionaries.
Which of the following was not among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile?
Railroads
Match each literary figure below with the correct work. A. Ernest Hemingway 1. The Sun Also Rises B. F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. Main Street C. Sinclair Lewis 3. The Sound and the Fury D. William Faulkner 4. The Great Gatsby
A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was
A. Mitchell Palmer.
Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new sports industry in the 1920s were
Al Jolson and Margaret Sanger.
The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, most
Americans lived in cities
The zeal of federal agents in enforcing prohibition laws against liquor smugglers strained U.S. diplomatic relations with
Canada.
Which of the following was not among prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s?
Ralph Ellison
The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was
Roman Catholicism.
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" represented a tragic, embarrassing, and final political curtain call for prosecution expert
William Jennings Bryan.
The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as
a celebration of black culture and creative expression of a prominent and vibrant black community in the North.
All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, except he
advocated the idea of developing an elite "talented tenth" to lead African American economic and social progress and promote racial integration in the United States.
The short-term legal outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that
biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined.
Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
birth control.
Businesspeople used the red scare to
break the backs of fledgling unions.
The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion pictures in the 1920s
contributed to the standardization of American life.
Although speakeasies and hard liquor flourished, historians argue that prohibition wasn't entirely a failure for all of the following reasons except
crime levels decreased
The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved
developing mass markets in America and overseas to create sufficient consumer demand for American manufactured goods being produced during that decade at unprecedented production levels.
Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from
foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they immigrated to America.
Car advertisements in the 1920s reached out to the mass market of American female consumers in all of the following ways except
illustrating how automobiles could permit women to ignore their traditional duties as household managers and advance their professional career goals and ambitions.
Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that
immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot.
With 5 million members at its peak in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan was known for all of the following except
lack of support in the Midwest and the Bible Belt.
During the 1920s, many American immigrant ethnic groups
lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters.
As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the heaviest tax burden on
middle-income groups.
The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except
opposition to prohibition.
Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was
production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile
The influential cultural film during the 1920s, Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith, stirred extensive protest by African Americans because
the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against
the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.
The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except
the increased dependence of women on men.
The Ku Klux Klan nearly collapsed in the late 1920s when
the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket
The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by
the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries
To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to
the theories of Sigmund Freud.
