APUSH Chapter 31

match each literary figure with the correct work A-Ernest Hemingway B-F. Scott Fitzgerald C-Sinclair Lewis D-William Faulkner 1-The Sun Also Rises 2-Main Street 3-The Sound and the Fury 4-The Great Gatsby

A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

the most tenacious pursuer of "radical" elements during the red scare was

A. Mitchell Palmer

among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and new "sports industry in the 1920's were

Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey

the most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920's was

Chicago

Al Capone

Chicago gangster convicted of tax evasion

of the following, the one LEAST related to the other three is -William Jennings Bryan -Clarence Darrow -Frederick W. Taylor -John T. Scopes

Frederick W. Taylor

which of the following was NOT among prominent African American cultural figures in the 1920's -Langston Hughes -Ralph Ellison -Joseph "King" Oliver -"Jelly Roll" Morton

Ralph Ellison

the religion of almost all Polish immigrants to the United States was

Roman Catholicism

John T. Scopes

Tennessee biology teacher who would stand trail for teaching evolution in the classroom

the first "talkie" motion picture was

The Jazz Singer

Sigmund Freud

Viennese physician who argued that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of nervous and emotional ills

the Great Gatsby

a 1925 book by F. Scott Fitzgerald which was a commentary about the illusory American ideal of the self-made man

H. L. Mencken

a highly critical author out of Baltimore who was referred to as the patron saint of many young authors

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

a major case of two men in Massachusetts, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were charged with murder and convicted after a very questionable court case. They received much support throughout the world but were executed in 1927

Ku Klux Klan

all choices are correct -embraced anti-foreign practices, not just anti-black -was an extremist, ultraconservative uprising against the many forces of modernity -reached an enrollment of over 5 million members in the 1920's

George Herman Ruth

all choices are correct -was nicknamed "Sultan of Swat" and "Babe" -became so popular that his home baseball stadium, Yankee Stadium, became known as the "house Ruth built" -became more well known, as well as other athletes, than statesmen

Ernest Hemingway

all choices are correct -authored "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms" in the 1920's -committed suicide in 1961

Charles Lindbergh

all choices are correct -gained the nickname "Lucky Lindy" -accomplished the first successful weest to east solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in the plane named "The Spirit of St. Louis" -son was kidnapped and murdered in 1932

A. Mitchell Palmer

all choices are correct -led raids that rounded up about 6,000 suspected radicals during the Red Scare of 1919-1920 -was nicknamed "the Fighting Quaker" -attorney general in the Wilson administration

Bruce Barton

all choices are correct -proposed the theory that Jesus was the greatest adman of all-time -considered a founder of the :"advertising" profession -published the best seller "The Man Nobody Known"

progressive education

all choices are correct -was more permissive than traditional education had been in the past -promoted by John Dewey, this was learned by doing. The workbench was equally as important as was the blackboard -promoted education for life

cultural pluralism

all choices are correct -was promoted bu philosopher Horace Kallen -Kallen defended the right of newcomers to the United States to be able to practice their ancestral customs -was a concept that criticized the theory that the "melting pot" of America would eliminate ethnic differences

which of the following was NOT among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile

aluminum

jazz music was developed by

american blacks

the 1920 census revealed that for the first time most

americans lived in cities

Immigration Quota Act

an extremely limiting immigration act which was passed in 1924, this limited immigration to 2% of the population from a given country that already lived in the United States in 1890 on a yearly basis

F. Scott Fitzgerald

author of two of the most popular books of the 1920's, "This Side of Paradise" and "The Great Gatsby"

Bruce Barton, author of "The Man Nobody Knows," expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton

believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time

Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy for

birth control

business people used the red scare to

break the backs of fledgling unions

many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following EXCEPT

catholic missionaries

fundamentalists

christians who believe in a literal reading and meaning of the Bible

modernists

christians who believed in scientific theory as well as the teaching of the Bible

red scare

communist fears that erupted in the Unites States from 1919-1920 that resulted in thousands of left wing radicals being rounded up and arrested

automobiles, radios, and motion pictures

contributed to the standardization of American life

the main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920's involved

developing expanded markets of people to buy their products

enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

eastern city dwellers

according to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to

educate a student for life

disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920's did all of the following EXCEPT -enter a decade of economic difficulties -restrict immigration -condemn "un-american" lifestyles -denounce "radical" foreign ideas

enter a decade of economic difficulties

Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, is known for all of the following EXCEPT -cultivating feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks -promoting the resettlement of American blacks in Africa -establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African Americans -promoting black owned businesses

establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African Americans

one of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organizations in America was

ethnic diversity

Clarence Darrow

famous attorney who defended Scopes during his trial in 1925

United Negro Improvement Association

founded in Harlem by Marcus Garvey to promote the resettlement of American blacks in their own "African homeland"

after the Scopes "monkey trial,"

fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life

all of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920's EXCEPT -perfection of assembly line production -increased productivity of workers -government stimulation of the economy -rapid expansion of capital

government stimulation of the economy

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because

his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age

"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"

Henry Ford

invented the automobile

Margaret Sanger

leader of an organized birth control movement to champion the use of contraceptives

as secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the tax burden on the

middle-income groups

with the advent of radio and motion pictures

much of the rich diversity of immigrant culture was lost

Sinclair Lewis

none of the choices are correct

William Faulkner

none of these choices are correct

the post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following EXCEPT -anti-catholicism -opposition to birth control -fundamentalist religion -opposition to prohibition

opposition to prohibition

John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of the______________________"

progressive education

Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his

promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management

Randolph Bourne

proponent of cultural pluralism" in the 1920's

buying stock "on margin" meant

purchasing it with a small down payment

Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry was

relatively cheap automobiles

Andrew Mellon

secretary of the treasury whose tax policies favored the rapid expansion of capital investment

Fredrick W. Taylor

sought to eliminate wasted motion through stopwatch efficiency

the immigration quota system adopted in the 1920's discriminated directly against

southern and eastern Europeans

the trial of John T. Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of

teaching evolution in public schools

job opportunities for women in the 1920's

tended to cluster in a few low paying fields

Volstead Act

the act that implemented the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919

the Birth of a Nation

the first full length feature film ever made. It was the product of . W. Griffith in 1915, which glorified the role of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's was a reaction against

the forces of diversity ad modernity that were transforming American Culture

the automobile revolution resulted in all of the following EXCEPT -the consolidation of schools -the increased dependence of women on men -a loss of population in less attractive states -the spread of suburbs

the increased dependence of women on men

immigration restrictions of the 1920's were introduced as a result of

the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans

the red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

the public's association of labor violence with itd fear of revolution

to justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to

the theories of Sigmund Freud

William Jennings Bryan

was a member of the prosecution on the Scopes Trial in 1925

the prosperity that developed in the 1920's

was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt

nativism

what the "anti-foreign" practices of the Ku Klux Klan resembled in the 1920's which had its origins in nativist movements of the 1850's

most Americans assumed that prohibition

would be permanent