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How did F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby reflect the culture of the 1920s?
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Its characters showed little regard for morals.
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Which occurred after African American jazz musicians migrated north?
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Jazz music spread throughout the US.
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In the 1920s, manufacturers encouraged consumerism by offering
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a greater variety of goods for fair prices.
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Musician and composer George Gershwin was known for helping to spread jazz to
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Europe.
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In 1925, John Scopes broke a state law in Tennessee called the Butler Act, which outlawed
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teaching about evolution.
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The main reason alcohol abuse caught the attention of the public in the early 1900s was an increase in
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the negative social effects of excessive drinking.
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The aspects of a specific location that make people want to move there are called
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pull factors.
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Which best describes an unintended consequence of Prohibition?
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an increase in "medicinal alcohol"
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Two women who were writers during the in the 1920s were
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Edith Wharton and Willa Cather.
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How did F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby reflect the culture of the 1920s?
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Its characters showed little regard for morals.
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Which is true about the "lost generation"?
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They did not think the lifestyle of the 1920s was desirable.
They did not think the lifestyle of the 1920s was desirable.
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Which best states how the Scopes trial ended?
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Scopes changed his plea to guilty, and was convicted.
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Which best describes how Calvin Coolidge's presidency was different from Warren G. Harding's presidency?
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It had no major scandals.
