HIST 12 M6; RQ

Question 10 (Q022) The Immigration Act of 1924 created this organization, which was charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions. (A) the U.S. Border Patrol. (B) the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). (C) an F.B.I. agency dedicated to border control. (D) the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

(A) *

Question 15 (Q030) What two countries were not subject to immigration quota limitations under the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924? (A) Canada and Mexico (B) Nigeria and South Africa (C) England and Ireland (D) Italy and Poland

(A) *

Question 2 (Q006) Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre? (A) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (B) Reinhold Niebuhr and Stewart Poyntz (C) Enrico Caruso and Andre Siegfried (D) Stanton Blanche and Jacob Abrams

(A) *

Question 4 (Q011) The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was (A) Los Angeles, California. (B) San Diego, California. (C) San Francisco, California. (D) Sacramento, California.

(A) *

Question 6 (Q014) Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to (A) normalcy. (B) the Gilded Age. (C) bohemianism. (D) Progressivism.

(A) *

Question 8 (Q019) In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution? (A) the Scopes Trial (B) the Anti-Evolution Trial (C) the Sacco and Vanzetti Trial (D) the Bryan Trial

(A) *

Question 9 (Q021) The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called (A) the Harlem Renaissance. (B) the Armory Show. (C) the Bronx Revival. (D) the Ashcan School.

(A) *

Question 13 (Q026) At the beginning of 1929, most American families had accumulated (A) no money in their savings accounts. (B) very few consumer goods. (C) a decent amount of savings (around a thousand dollars) from both the booming stock market of the 1920s and the abundance of cheap household goods. (D) a few months pay--a few hundred dollars--as savings.

(A)* pretty sure

Question 12 (Q025) Which of the following were addressed in the Johnson-Reed, or Immigration, Act of 1924? (A) the barring of entry of all persons eligible for naturalized citizenship (B) the establishing of no limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere (C) the barring of entry to the entire population of Europe except for Italy (D) the exclusion of war veterans from Africa from becoming naturalized American citizens

(B)

Question 1 (Q005) In the spring of 1932, approximately 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945, and were (A) met with tear gas, after which two veterans were shot, recovered, and finally paid the bonus. (B) driven away by federal soldiers led by army chief of staff Douglas MacArthur. (C) told that the government was essentially bankrupt, thanked for their service, and given promises that the government would revisit the issue. (D) promised 80 percent of what was due by the end of the year.

(B) *

Question 7 (Q018) 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? (A) secularists (B) fundamentalists (C) Catholics (D) mainstream Protestants

(B) *

Question 11 (Q024) President Herbert Hoover's 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation did which of the following? (A) offer direct relief to the unemployed (B) loan money to successful banks (C) offer aid to homeowners threatened with foreclosure (D) appropriate less than $1 million for local relief efforts in public-works projects

(B) got this one wrong

Question 3 (Q010) In early 1929, the income of the wealthiest 5 percent of American families was greater than that of the bottom (A) 5 percent. (B) 40 percent. (C) 60 percent. (D) 10 percent.

(C)*

Question 14 (Q027) This law, considered a major achievement of the maternalist reformers, provided federal assistance to programs for infants and children's health. However, it was later repealed by Congress in 1929. (A) McNary-Haugen bill (B) Equal Rights Amendment (C) Smoot-Hawley Tariff (D) Sheppard-Towner Act

(D) *

Question 5 (Q013) The proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate all legal distinctions "on account of sex" promoted by Alice Paul was (A) the National Women's Amendment. (B) the Fifteenth Amendment. (C) the Equal Suffrage Amendment. (D) the Equal Rights Amendment.

(D) *

Question 16 (Q035) American agriculture slid into economic depression years before the stock market crash of 1929.

True *

Question 17 (Q036) In 1928, Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith was the first Catholic to be nominated for president by a major party.

True *

Question 18 (Q037) The 1920s was a decade of social tensions between rural and urban Americans, as well as traditional and "modern" Christianity.

True *

Question 19 (Q040) By 1929, 80 million Americans went to the movies each week, and almost 5 million owned radios.

True *

Question 20 (Q046) Business leaders like Henry Ford and engineers like Herbert Hoover were cultural heroes in the 1920s.

True *