History Finial Chapter 25 – Flashcards

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The Ku Klux Klan
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attacked anyone who seemed different from them.
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Prohibition
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bred a profound disrespect for the law
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Beyond stimulating the American economy, the automobile also dramatically changed American life.
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True
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The famous female evangelist of the 1920s was
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Aimee Semple McPherson.
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During the 1920s, spectator sports became a national obsession.
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True
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During the 1920s, the National Woman's Party (NOW) campaigned for
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an Equal Rights Amendment.
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The greatest cultural advance of the 1920s was found in
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the outpouring of literature.
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During the Red scare of 1919-1920,_____________ led the attack on the alien threat.
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A. Mitchell Palmer
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The Harlem Renaissance
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symbolized the flowering of the African American culture in the 1920s.
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For the most part, industrial workers were better off economically than farmers in the 1920s.
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True
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The famous evolution trial of 1925 involved biology teacher
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John Scopes
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Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon pushed for
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lower personal taxes for the rich.
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The weakest area of the American economy in the 1920s was
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agriculture
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Harding and his successors
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wanted a return to traditional Republican policies.
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The American economy in the 1920s saw explosive growth in
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the consumer-goods industry.
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The Democratic Party in the 1920s
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was badly split between its urban and rural branches.
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The Democratic candidate in the election of 1928 was
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Al Smith
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Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder primarily because they were
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Italian immigrants and anarchists
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Which of the following individuals was not a prominent writer of the 1920s?
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Alfred Kinsey.
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Which of the following groups were possible targets of Ku Klux Klan?
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Blacks, women, Jews, and Catholics.
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The African-American leader who promoted African-American business enterprises and pan-African unity was
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Marcus Garvey
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The American worker in the 1920s
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did not fully share in the new affluence
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The immigration restrictions in the 1920s
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reflected the strength of nativism in America.
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While industry grew significantly in the twenties, the national per-capita income actually decreased during the same period
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False
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The root of the farmers' problems in the 1920s was
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overproduction
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The Red Scare of 1919
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was an outgrowth of the intense nationalism of WWI
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Passed in 1920, the________ made it illegal for anyone to make, sell, or transport any drink that contained more than one-half of one-percent of alcohol by volume.
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Volstead Act
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For the most part, writers in the 1920s shared a sense of hope and wrote optimistically of the promises of American life.
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False
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In the 1920s, the American family
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became smaller and somewhat less cohesive.
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The chief figure in the Teapot Dome scandal was
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Albert Fall
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The honesty and integrity of_________ reassured the nation after the Harding scandals and Harding's death in 1923.
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Calvin Coolidge
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