Foner Chapter 20 – Flashcards
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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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During the 1920s, American multinational corporations:
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extended their reach throughout the world.
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The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:
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demonstrated how the Red Scare extended into the 1920s.
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All of the following statements about the1924 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 than from northern and western Europe.
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During the 1920s, consumer goods:
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were frequently purchased on credit.
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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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Many forces predisposed Ku Klux Klan members to accept the group's exclusionary message without much analysis. These forces included all of the following EXCEPT:
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Coolidge's economic policies.
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The Ku Klux Klan:
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flourished in the early 1920s, especially in the North and West.
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President Harding's call for a return to normalcy meant:
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a call for the regular order of things, without excessive reform.
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The Scopes trial illustrated a divide between:
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modernism and fundamentalism.
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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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The backbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of:
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automobiles.
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For the feminist woman in the 1920s, freedom meant:
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the right to choose her lifestyle.
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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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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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During the Scopes trial, Clarence Darrow, the defense lawyer, questioned whom as a supposedly expert witness about the Bible?
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William Jennings Bryan
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The flapper:
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epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.
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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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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:
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crafted an intellectual defense of civil liberties during the 1920s.
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The McNary-Haugen Bill:
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proposed the government purchase of farm products so as to raise prices.
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What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and 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, colleges, and government agencies
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The Scopes trial of 1925:
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pitted creationists against evolutionists.
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Which city was considered the "capital" of black America?
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Harlem
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What did Calvin Coolidge believe was the chief business of the American people?
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business
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Cultural pluralism:
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described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.
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All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:
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Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom.
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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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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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Which would NOT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?
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advocated temperance
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During the 1920s:
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an estimated 40 percent of the population remained in poverty.
