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The trial and execution of nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzaetti
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Demonstrated how the red scare extended into the 1920's
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The backbone of economic growth during the 1920's was the increased consumption of
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Automoblies
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During the 1920's consumer goods
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We're frequently purchased on credit
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Agriculture in the 1920'd
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Experienced declining incomes and increased bank forclosures
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In the 1920s employers embraced the American plan which
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Advocated the open shop
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What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people
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Buisnesses
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Real world where the late 19th century what _____ word to the 1920s
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Cars
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During the 1920s American multinational corporation
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Extended their breach throughout the world
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The equal rights amendment
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Proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex
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The flapper
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Epitomize the change in the standards of sexual behavior
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Which statement about politics in the 1920s is false
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Woman took an active role in national politics overwhelming supporting the Republican Party
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President Harding call for return to normalcy meant
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A call for the regular order of things without excessive reform
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The mcnary-haigen bill
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Propose the government purchase of farm products so as to raise prices
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Banned in Boston referred to
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A book been in the city including books by Ernest Hemingway
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In schneck vs United States the supreme court
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Argued that bands and dangerous speech where constitutional
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In their 1929 study Middletown Robert and Helen Lynd
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Argued that leisure activities and consumption had replaced political involvement
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During the 1920
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Government policies reflected in the pro-business ethos of the decade
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The Teapot Dome scandal involved
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The secretary of Interior who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies
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American foreign-policy during the 1920s
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Reflected the close working relationship between government and business
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The Hayes code
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Prohibited movies from depicting nudity long kissing and adultery
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The scopes trial illustrated a divide between
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Modernism in fundamentalism
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During the scopes trial Clarence Darrow the defense lawyer questioned as to whom as a supposedly expert witness about the Bible
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William Jennings Bryan
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Many forces predisposed klu klux clan members to except the groups exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following except
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Coolidges economic policies
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The ku klux klan
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Florist in the early 1920s especially in the north and west
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Regarding public education in 1922 Oregon became the first state to
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Require all students to attend public school
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All of the following statements about the 1924 immigration act are true except
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The 1924 immigration act sought to ensure that more immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe and then from Northern and Western Europe
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Besides work and school the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920s were
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Dance halls department stores in movie theaters
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Cultural pluralism
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Challenge the idea that Southern and Eastern Europe paeans were unfit to become citizens
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In 1923 the Meyer verse Nebraska decision
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Was a startling reversal in the cause of Americanization
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay
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1928 Herbert Hoover
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Won the presidency primarily because of his Sterling reputation and the general apparent prosperity of the nation
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The great depression was caused by all of the following factors except
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Increased government regulation of banking and the stock market
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The great depression shape the lives of Americans in all the following ways except
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The America suicide rate declined
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President Hoover responded to the onset of the depression bye
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Reassuring Americans that the tide had turned
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The reconstruction finance corporation
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Made loans to failing buisnesses
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Which issue became the focus of the 1920 presidential race
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The fact that Alfred Smith was Catholic
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Main cause of the Great Depression was
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Declining American purchasing power
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The Hawley-smoot tariff
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Raised taxes on imported goods
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Hoover's response a little pressure and included all of the following measures except
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A reduction in the size of the army
