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The red scare of the early 1920s was initially set off by
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The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
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The American city where gangsterism flourished most blatantly in the 1920s was
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Chicago
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In the 1920s, the major changes pursued by American women were
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Cultural freedom and expanded sexual experience
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The essential issue in the Scopes trial was whether
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Darwinian evolutionary science could be taught in the public schools
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Besides attacking minorities like Keflex, blacks, and Jews, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s opposed contemporary cultural and social changes such as
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Evolution and birth control
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The most highly acclaimed industrial innovator of the new mass production economy was
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Henry Ford
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Many of the prominent new writers of the 1920s were
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Highly critical of traditional American Puritanism and small-town life
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The literary figure who promoted many new riders of the 1920s and his magazine, the American Mercury, was
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H.L. Mencken
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The quota system established for immigration in the 1920s was based on the idea that
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Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe for superior to those from Southern and Eastern Europe
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Radio and the movies both had the cultural effect of
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Increasing mass standardization and weakening traditional forms of culture
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The primary achievement of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro improvement Association was
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It's a positive impact on black racial pride
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The concentration of many American ethnic groups in separate neighborhoods with their own distinct institutions, cultures, and values mean that
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It was almost impossible to organize the American working class across ethnic and religious lines
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One clear results of prohibition was
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A rise in criminal organizations that supplied illegal liquor
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Two major American industries that benefited economically from the widespread use of the automobile were
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Rubber and petroleum
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One of the primary social effects of the new automobile age was
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A weakening of traditional family ties between parents and youth
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The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most
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Americans lived in cities
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According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to
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Educate a student for life
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After the scopes "monkey trial,"
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Fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life
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All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s possible except
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Government stimulation of the economy
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I'm on the major figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new "sports industry" in the 1920s were
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Babe Ruth and jack Dempsey
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As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon place for the tax burden on the
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Middle income groups
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The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except
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The increased dependence of women on men
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Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures
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Contributed to the standardization of American life
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Bruce Barton, author of the man nobody knows, expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton
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Believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time
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Business people used to the red scare to
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Break the backs of fledgling unions
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Buying stock "on margin" meant
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Purchasing it with a small down payment
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Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because
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His wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the Jazz age
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"Cultural Pluralists" like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that
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Immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather then blend into a single American "melting pot"
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Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except
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Enter a decade of economic difficulties
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Enforcement of the Volstead act met the strongest resistance from
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Eastern city dwellers
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The first talkie motion picture was
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The Jazz Singer
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Frederick W Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his
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Promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management
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Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry was
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Relatively cheap automobiles
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The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against
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Southern and Eastern Europeans
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Immigration restrictions in the 1920s were introduced as a result of
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The nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans
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Jazz music was developed by
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American blacks
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Job opportunities for women in the 1920s
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Tended to cluster and a few low-paying fields
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John do we can rightly be called the father of
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Progressive education
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The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against
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The forces of a diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture
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The main problems faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s involved
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Developing expanded markets of people to buy their products
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Many Polish presence learned about America from all of the following sources except
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Catholic missionaries
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Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro improvement Association, is best known for all of the following except
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Status in the idea of the talented 10th to lead African-Americans
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Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
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Birth control
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Most Americans assumed that prohibition
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Would be permanent
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In a speck Tak Euler example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was
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Chicago
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The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare was
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Frederick W Taylor
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Of the following, the one least related to the other four is
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Frederick W Taylor
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Of the primary obstacles to work and classes solidarity and organization in America was
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Ethnic diversity
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The post world war one ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except
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Opposition to probation
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The prosperity that developed in the 1920s
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Was accompanied by a cloud of consumer debt
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The red scare of 1919 to 1920 was provoked by
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The publics association of labor violation with its fear of revolution
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The religion of almost all polish immigrants to america was
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Roman catholic
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To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to
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The theories of Sigmund Freud
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The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of
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Teaching evolution in schools
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Which of the following was not among prominent African American cultural figures of the 1920s
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Ralph Ellison
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Which of the following was not among the industries that prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile
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Aluminum
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With the advent of radio in motion pictures
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Much of the rich diverse city of immigrant culture was lost
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