DEUSH CH22 Test form B
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself
a champion of business cooperation
After WWI, the new Ku Klux Klan
became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners
The National Origins Act of 1924
entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.
During the 1920s, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT
few opportunities to join a company union
In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists argued
mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant
no worker was required to join a union
During the 1920s, birth control in the United States
was illegal, in some form, in many states
During the 1920s, when $1,800 was considered the minimum annual income for a decent standard of living, the average annual income of a worker was approximately A. $700. B. $1,100. C. $1,500. D. $1,900. E. $2,400.
$1,500
During the 1920s, all of the following immigrant groups were increasing their presence in the labor force in the West and Southwest EXCEPT the
Chinese
The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts, and even democracy itself was A. John Dos Passos. B. F. Scott Fitzgerald. C. Sinclair Lewis. D. Thomas Wolfe. E. H. L. Mencken.
H. L. Mencken
In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle
Had a particular impact on lower-middle-class single women
In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
drew heavily from their African Heritage
As a result of the Scopes Trial of 1925,
fundamentalists reduced their political activism
Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part, because
he failed to carry the South
All of the following statements regarding Al Smith are true EXCEPT that he
lost the 1924 nomination to William McAdoo
The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921
provided federal funds for child health care programs
In the 1920s bestseller, The Man Nobody Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as a
salesman
Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in
their passive approach to the presidency
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved
transfers of national oil reserves
In the 1920s, the "noble experiment " referred to
Prohibition of alcohol