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Breezi
Guest
24. In which area was prosperity limited following World War I?
(Points: 3)
seasonal unemployment
demands of the middle class
high compensation for women
assembly line jobs
25. Why did the automobile have a major impact on the United States in the twenties?
(Points: 3)
It caused traffic problems.
Accidents made it difficult for hospitals to provide adequate care.
A fifth of the population owned a vehicle to use for work and leisure.
The government could tax gasoline.
26. Which technological change does not belong with American life in the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
televisions for most of the middle class
radios in homes across the nation
telephones for a majority of families
electricity in most urban homes and businesses
27. What 1920s trend favored individual experiences, emotions, and the expression of personal freedom?
(Points: 3)
Impressionism
Optimism
Modernism
Abstract expressionis
28. Dating, high school activities, and longer school enrollments in the 1920s were all signs of what phenomenon?
(Points: 3)
emphasis on education
stricter parental roles
youth culture
rebellion versus responsibility
29. What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
a new trend in modern art that featured abstract black sculptures
an African American cultural movement that included literature, drama, music, art, and dance
the urban name for Dixieland jazz that developed in New Orleans and was brought to New York
the name given to all the new literary, musical, and artistic styles that developed during the 1920s
30. Which groups objected to immigrants, responded to the Red Scare, and believed white Protestants were better than others?
(Points: 3)
African Americans and Catholics
Nativists and the Ku Klux Klan
Communists and socialists
Labor unions and Jews
31. What brought a ban on the sale of alcohol, bootleggers, and an increase in organized crime to the United States during the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
Capone v. United States
the Women's Christian Temperance Union
the 18th Amendment
the Prohibition Act
32. What brought the conflict between the teaching of evolution and religious fundamentalism to the public's attention?
(Points: 3)
the Scopes Trial
the death of Warren Harding
the defeat of Al Smith
the high school reform movement
33.What group could be described for the first time in the 1920s with the terms flapper, wage-earner, and voter?
(Points: 3)
adolescents
African Americans
urban Americans
women
34. How was big business regarded by the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations?
(Points: 3)
as the most important strength of America
as something to be regulated
as the basis for tax revenue
as something that had a responsibility to all the people
(Points: 3)
seasonal unemployment
demands of the middle class
high compensation for women
assembly line jobs
25. Why did the automobile have a major impact on the United States in the twenties?
(Points: 3)
It caused traffic problems.
Accidents made it difficult for hospitals to provide adequate care.
A fifth of the population owned a vehicle to use for work and leisure.
The government could tax gasoline.
26. Which technological change does not belong with American life in the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
televisions for most of the middle class
radios in homes across the nation
telephones for a majority of families
electricity in most urban homes and businesses
27. What 1920s trend favored individual experiences, emotions, and the expression of personal freedom?
(Points: 3)
Impressionism
Optimism
Modernism
Abstract expressionis
28. Dating, high school activities, and longer school enrollments in the 1920s were all signs of what phenomenon?
(Points: 3)
emphasis on education
stricter parental roles
youth culture
rebellion versus responsibility
29. What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
a new trend in modern art that featured abstract black sculptures
an African American cultural movement that included literature, drama, music, art, and dance
the urban name for Dixieland jazz that developed in New Orleans and was brought to New York
the name given to all the new literary, musical, and artistic styles that developed during the 1920s
30. Which groups objected to immigrants, responded to the Red Scare, and believed white Protestants were better than others?
(Points: 3)
African Americans and Catholics
Nativists and the Ku Klux Klan
Communists and socialists
Labor unions and Jews
31. What brought a ban on the sale of alcohol, bootleggers, and an increase in organized crime to the United States during the 1920s?
(Points: 3)
Capone v. United States
the Women's Christian Temperance Union
the 18th Amendment
the Prohibition Act
32. What brought the conflict between the teaching of evolution and religious fundamentalism to the public's attention?
(Points: 3)
the Scopes Trial
the death of Warren Harding
the defeat of Al Smith
the high school reform movement
33.What group could be described for the first time in the 1920s with the terms flapper, wage-earner, and voter?
(Points: 3)
adolescents
African Americans
urban Americans
women
34. How was big business regarded by the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations?
(Points: 3)
as the most important strength of America
as something to be regulated
as the basis for tax revenue
as something that had a responsibility to all the people