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3. What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?

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Business

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5. Why did General Motors surpass Ford in sales of automobiles in the 1920s?

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GM sucesadully marketed different styles and designs

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6. During the 1920s, American multinational corporation's:

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Extended their reach throughout the world

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8. During the 1920s, consumer goods:

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Were frequently purchased on credit

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11. During the 1920s:

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An estimated 40% of the population remained in poverty

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12. Agriculture in the 1920s:

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Experience declining incomes and increased bank foreclosures

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13. Labor unions lost members in the 1920s for all of the following reasons except:

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Through collective bargaining, labor unions had secured a national eight hour day

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14. In the 1920s, employers embraced the American plan, which:

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Advocated the "open shop."

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15. The Equal Rights Amendment:

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Proposed to eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex

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16. For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:

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The right to choose her lifestyle

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17. The flapper:

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Epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior

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18. Which would not be considered a characteristic of a flapper?

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Advocated temperance

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20. Which statement about politics in the 1920s is false?

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Women took an active role in national politics, mostly with the Republican Party

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21. During the 1920s:

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Government policies reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade

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22. President Hardings call for a return to normalcy meant:

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A call for the regular order of things, without progressive reform

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23. The administration of which president was plagued with scandals?

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Warren Harding

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24. The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

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The secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies

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26. Robert La Follette ran for president in 1924:

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As a progressive party candidate

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27. American foreign-policy during the 1920s:

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Reflected the close relationship between government and business

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28. All of the following are examples of economic foreign policy designed to improve American business except:

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Rejecting the League of Nations

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29. "Banned in Boston" referred to:

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A book ban in the city, including books by Ernest Hemingway

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30. The Hays Code:

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Prohibited movies from depicting nudity, long kisses, and adultery

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31. In Schenck vs. the United States, the Supreme Court:

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Ruled that bans on dangerous speech were constitutional

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32. Supreme court justice Louis Brandeis:

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Crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s

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33. All of the statements about prohibition during the 1920s are true except:

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Religious fundamentalist opposed prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom

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34. The Scopes trial illustrated a divide between:

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Modernism and fundamentalism

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35. During the Scopes trial, Clarence Darrow, the defense lawyer, questioned whom as supposedly expert witness about the Bible?

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William Jennings Bryan

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36. The Scopes trial of 1925:

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pitted creationists against evolutionists

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37. Many forces pre-disposed KKK members to accept 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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38. The Ku Klux Klan:

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Flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the north and west

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39. Regarding public education, in 1922, Oregon became the first state to:

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Ban private schools

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41. Which group gained American citizenship in 1924?

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Native Americans

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43. Besides work and school, the most active agents of Americanization during the 1920s were:

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Dance halls, department stores, and movie theaters

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46. What were the National Catholic Welfare Council in the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

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Laws prohibiting discrimination against immigrants by employers, colleagues, and government agencies

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47. Meyer V. Nebraska:

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Overturned a law that stated public schools would instruct classes in English

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49. Which city was considered the "capital" of black America?

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Harlem

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51. The Harlem Renaissance:

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Included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay

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52. Which issue became the focus of the 1928 presidential race?

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The fact that Alfred Smith was Catholic

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53. And 1928, Herbert Hoover:

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Called for a repeal of Prohibition

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54. The Great Sepression was caused by all the following factors except:

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Increased government regulation of banking and the stock market

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55. A main cause of the Great Depression was:

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Declining American purchasing power

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56. The Great Depression shape the lives of Americans in all the following ways except:

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American suicide rate declined

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57. Hoover's response to the Depression included all the following measures except:

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A tax increase

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58. President Hoover responded to the onset of the Depression by:

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Reassuring Americans that "the tide had turned."

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59. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff:

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Raised taxes on imported goods

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60. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:

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Made loans to failing businesses

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