HISTORY EXAM 3
As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he
A. considered the country to have a bright economic future.
As President, Warren Harding
A. never abandoned the party hacks who had brought him to success.
The National Origins Act of 1924 A. was designed to alter the sources but not the overall number of immigrants.</p> B. discriminated against northwestern Europeans.</p> C. included a quota system for the first time.</p> D. entirely banned immigration from East Asia to the United States.</p> E. set a rigid limit of 150,000 immigrants a year.</p
D
Feminists such as Alice Paul championed the Sheppard-Towner Act because it provided federal funds for child health-care.
FALSE
The American Federation of Labor began turning away from the idea of craft unions.
FALSE
During the 1920s, Thomas Hunt Morgan was one of the American pioneers in
GENETIC RESEARCH
The infamous Baltimore journalist of the 1920s who delighted in ridiculing religion, politics, the arts, and even democracy itself, was
H. L. Mencken
In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression
Saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women
During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was
THE COMMUNIST PARTY
In the 1920s, as agriculture brought millions of acres of new land under cultivation, three million people left the farm sector.
True
The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between <p>U.S. Steel and the Amalgamated Steelworkers’ Union.</p> <p>blacks and whites.</p> <p>creationism and evolution.</p> <p>nativists and immigrants.</p> <p>urban and rural society.</p>
creationism and evolution
As a result of the Scopes trial of 1925,
fundamentalists reduced their participation in political activism
In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party
lost a significant portion of its membership.
During the 1920s, birth control in the U.S.
was illegal, in some form, in many states
