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One aspect of nativism in the 1920s was fear of recent immigrants who might be Communists or anarchists.

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True

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The Ku Klux Klan was directed against blacks, Jews, and Catholics.

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True

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Henry Ford invented the automobile.

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False

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W.E.B. Du Bois was a leader in the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

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False

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Proponents of literary and artistic change included T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

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True

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The most significant economic and social development of the early twentieth century was

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the automobile.

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The Harlem Renaissance, an artistic and literary blossoming, featured the works of

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Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.

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Modernism included

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impressionism in art and Freudianism in psychology.

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The flappers

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seemed a shocking example of the "new feminism" to the older generation.

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Organized crime began during the Depression.

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false

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The great migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the North continued into the 1930s.

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true

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Prohibition outlawed the consumption of alcoholic drinks.

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true

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H. L. Mencken dubbed the twenties the "Jazz Age."

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false

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Prohibition

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ALL OF THE ABOVE

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The gangster Al Capone was finally convicted for bootlegging in 1929.

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false

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The Sacco and Vanzetti case became a cause célèbre because of the defendants'

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radical Italian backgrounds.

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Interracial marriages became acceptable to most in American society during the 1920s.

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false

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Modernism included

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impressionism in art and Freudianism in psychology.

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In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan

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ALL OF THE ABOVE

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Basketball became the national sport in the 1920s.

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false

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Countee Cullen and James Weldon Johnson were part of the Harlem Renaissance.

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true

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By 1920, Marcus Garvey believed blacks should flee America for Africa.

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true

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Most women in the twenties

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were not flappers.

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"All of you young people who served in the war, you are the lost generation," said

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Gertrude Stein.

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The Sacco and Vanzetti case became a cause célèbre because of the defendants'

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D. radical Italian backgrounds

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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution

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B. established prohibition

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The NAACP sought to solve racial problems by

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C. focusing on legal challenges to discrimination

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The scientific work of Einstein, Heisenberg, and others

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D. suggested that there is a limit to our ability to understand the universe

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President Wilson, a pacifist, never allowed U.S. military forces to intervene in Mexico.

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False

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In 1910, the largest group of hyphenated Americans was from Ireland.

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False

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"He kept us out of war" was the 1916 Republican campaign cry against Wilson.

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False

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The Zimmerman telegram revealed Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.

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False

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Probably the decisive reason the United States entered World War I was the issue of submarine warfare.

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True

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Women made major and lasting gains as workers when they entered the workforce in large numbers during World War I.

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False

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The War Industries Board was the most important agency mobilizing the nation for war.

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True

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In 1918, the United States sent troops to fight the Bolsheviks in Russia.

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True

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The sinking of the Titanic off Ireland by U-boats made many Americans anti-German.

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False

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Wilson's decision to attend the Paris Peace Conference was a political blunder in the eyes of many Americans.

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True

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When the Germans sued for peace, they wanted the negotiations to focus around the Fourteen Points.

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True

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Wilson thought Germany's admission of war guilt was the most necessary part of the peace negotiations.

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False

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More people worldwide died in the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 than during World War I.

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True

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Racial violence erupted after the end of the war, with twenty-five riots and over eighty lynchings.

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True

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The Boston police strike of 1919 helped launch Warren G. Harding's political career.

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False

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President Wilson sent General Pershing into Mexico

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to chase Pancho Villa.

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In the Caribbean, the Wilson administration

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sent marines into Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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For two years after the war began in Europe, the Wilson administration pursued a policy that stressed

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neutrality

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William Jennings Bryan resigned as secretary of state

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in the uproar after the sinking of the Lusitania.

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The Revenue Act of 1916

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all of the above

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Racial conflict among Americans during and after World War I resulted from

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the mass movement of southern blacks to northern cities.

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The wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts

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all of the above

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Until early 1918, U.S. forces in Europe

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played only a token role.

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Wilson's Fourteen Points included all the following except

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replacing the tsar on the Russian throne.

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Wilson's failure to take a major Republican to the postwar peace conference was a mistake because

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the Republicans controlled Congress.

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For Wilson, the most important part of the peace negotiations involved

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the League of Nations.

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The irreconcilables were primarily

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Midwestern and western progressives.

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After World War I, the Senate

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defeated the Treaty of Versailles.

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The postwar Red Scare was aimed at

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Bolsheviks, radicals, and aliens.

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All of the following statements about post-World War I America are correct except

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most working women kept their wartime industrial jobs.

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