Question 1

Still active today in pushing for individual rights, the American Civil Liberties Union started during what conflict?

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A)   World War II
B)   World War I
C)   Spanish-American War
D)   U.S. Civil War
E)   Korean WarF) A) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 2

By the 1930s, a few Supreme Court decisions showed that, in terms of civil liberties

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A)   the federal government was getting involved in judicial decisions.
B)   the debate continued to center on issues of racial discrimination.
C)   the Court did not demonstrate consistency, but instead ruled case by case.
D)   the judicial foundation for civil liberties was slowly being laid.
E)   the judiciary would continue ruling against freedom of speech.F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 3

During the 1924 presidential election, which Progressive politician received one-sixth of the electorate's votes?

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A)   John Dewey
B)   John Davis
C)   Robert La Follette
D)   Will Rogers
E)   Herbert HooverF) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 4

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-civil liberties

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Question 5

What new category did the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act establish?

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A)   green-card workers
B)   illegal aliens
C)   labor-citizens
D)   naturalized citizens
E)   Asian-AmericansF) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

President Harding's call for a "return to normalcy" meant

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A)   bringing back the Progressive spirit of reform.
B)   demobilizing from World War I.
C)   getting women back into the home from their wartime jobs.
D)   a call for the regular order of things, without Progressive reform.
E)   an end to the radicalism of the Red Scare.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 7

The 1920s political scene was dominated by

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A)   liberals.
B)   socialists
C)   the labor movement.
D)   feminist groups.
E)   conservatism.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

The Scopes trial was a national sensation, being carried out live on national radio.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

"The American Way of Life" was the slogan of

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A)   consumer culture.
B)   political reformers.
C)   religious revivalists.
D)   Republicans.
E)   the Mothers League.F) C) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 10

American farmers in the 1920s

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A)   managed to remain in business due to time-saving mechanization.
B)   understood that prices for produce would remain high despite the end of World War I.
C)   decreased their output of crops due to declining demand on the American and overseas markets.
D)   increasingly migrated out of rural areas.
E)   did not take advantage of new technological innovations.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

Cultural pluralism

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A)   was the adopted philosophy of the Ku Klux Klan.
B)   described a society that gloried in ethnic diversity.
C)   was denounced by Randolph Bourne.
D)   described the mood in Congress when it passed the Immigration Act.
E)   was the driving force behind the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 12

Assess the state of individual American financial savings by the end of the 1920s.

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A)   Rising wages had allowed Americans to build significant savings accounts in the 1920s.
B)   While the rich spent most of their earnings lavishly, poor and middle-class Americans saved conscientiously.
C)   Savings rates among the middle class were as high as 40 percent, causing significant challenges for the mass consumer economy.
D)   By the end of the 1920s, the majority of American families had no savings whatsoever.
E)   Americans had largely turned their backs on stocks and turned to the far safer bond market instead.F) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

During the 1920s

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A)   poverty was cut in half.
B)   consumer goods multiplied.
C)   automobile production declined.
D)   values of frugality flourished among Americans.
E)   there was a massive migration from urban to rural areas.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 14

Which of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s is true?

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A)   Prohibition increased American consumption of alcohol.
B)   Prohibition rules and regulations were rarely violated.
C)   Prohibition led to widespread corruption among law officials.
D)   Prohibition cut into the profits reaped by the owners of speakeasies.
E)   Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated individual freedom.F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 15

The flapper

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A)   epitomized the change in sexual behavior.
B)   represented a new political movement.
C)   represented a new economic radicalism.
D)   disapproved of smoking.
E)   demanded a return to earlier standards of behavior.F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 16

Once married, the flapper often continued her liberation and freedom.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

American foreign policy during the 1920s

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A)   reflected the close ties between government and business.
B)   expanded on Woodrow Wilson's goal of internationalism.
C)   included the lowering of tariffs.
D)   discouraged American business investment abroad.
E)   included a complete retreat from military intervention.F) C) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 18

The prevailing jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court in the 1920s can best be described as

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A)   laissez-faire.
B)   progressive.
C)   paternalistic.
D)   authoritarian.
E)   deferential.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 19

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Great Depression

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Question 20

Briefly describe the purpose of the immigration quotas imposed in 1921 and 1924.

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During the 1924 presidential election, which Progressive politician received one-sixth of the electorate's votes?

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The flapper

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Cultural pluralism

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