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The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "the Jazz Age" by

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The commission form of city government was first adopted in

Galveston, Texas

Which of the following did W. E. B. DuBois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?

He is "the most dangerous enemy of the Negro race . ... He is either a lunatic or a traitor."

Which of the following is true of the Lusitania?

It secretly carried weapons and ammunition in its cargo.

Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution gave women the right to vote?

Nineteenth

In response to the Bonus Army marchers, Herbert Hoover

Sent the U.S. Army to evict them from their Hooverville.

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:

The Jungle

Wilson's Fourteen Points endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

U.S. colonies in Africa and Asia

Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:

a New Yorker and a Catholic

The event that triggered World War I in Europe was:

a Serb's assassination of the Austrian archduke

Alfred Thayer Mahan:

argued that sea power was essential to national greatness

The Zimmermann telegram:

asked for help from Mexico in the case of war between Germany and the United States

As a result of the Spanish-American War the United States:

became a world power

The term yellow journalism arose from the:

circulation war between two New York newspapers

The Scopes Trial:

concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools

Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918:

criticism of government leaders or war policies became a crime

The Teller Amendment:

disclaimed any American designs on Cuban territory

The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

exposing social problems to the public

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

favored immigrants from northern and western Europe

Charles Lindbergh became immensely popular in the 1920s due to:

his solo flight across the Atlantic

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the:

impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of a "lunatic fringe" in the United States

"Pancho" Villa:

killed a number of Americans in an attempt to provoke American intervention in Mexico

In the progressive period:

many groups- blacks, the poor the unorganized - had little influence

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:

offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building-and loan societies, and other such businesses

Queen Liliuokalani:

opposed the Americanization of Hawaii

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act;

outlawed price discrimination and interlocking directorates

Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:

postwar culture was fraught with contradictions and tension

The Open Door Policy:

proposed that foreign powers keep the China trade open to all nations on an equal basis

Coolidge's administration was inarked by:

prosperity

Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses

regulate big business

The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:

reparations for the entire war

The Platt Amendment:

sharply restricted the independence of Cuba's new governments

The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:

shifted the U. S. Treasury back to the gold standard

Th Roosevelt Corollary:

stated the United States could intervene in the affairs of Western Hemisphere countries to forestall the intervention of other powers

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

the Republican party had split in two

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was daubt as to their guilt

In the case of Schenck v. United States, the Supreme Court

upheld the conviction of a man who had circulated pamphlets against the draft

The Ohio gang:

was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office

President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania

was a series of notes demandieg that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations

The movement of southern blacks to the North

was called the Great Migration


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