Ch.22

As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself

a champion of business cooperation

The National Origins Act of 1924

entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.

In the 1920s, a growing interest in birth control among middle-class women resulted from

the attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only

During the 1920s, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

was one of the few unions led by African Americans

In the 1920s, "welfare capitalism"

was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers

During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the United States included

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In the 1920s, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by

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Which of the following is true of the passage and application of the Eighteenth Amendment

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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

H. L. Mencken

After World War I, the new Ku Klux Klan

became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners.

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between

creationism and evolution

In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

criticized the American obsession with material wealth

In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance

drew heavily from their African heritage

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

had a particular impact on the lower-middle-class single women

Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election, in part, because

he failed to carry the South

Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy

saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities

In the 1920s, the "noble experiment" referred to

the prohibition of alcohol

Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge were similar in

their passive approach to the presidency

In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was

to ensure farmers would at least financially break even

During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved

transfers of national oil reserves.

In the 1920s, "behavioral" psychologists argued

mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children.