AcDec (25/26) Social Science Easy Test

Which organization did Marcus Garvey start?

The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

Architect Albert Kahn worked with Henry Ford to design an automobile factory in what U.S. city?

Highland Park

The slogan “He Kept Us Out of War,” is associated with the campaign of which United States presidential candidate?

Woodrow Wilson

The explosion of African-American artistic and intellectual production of the 1920s was centrally located in what New York City neighborhood?

Harlem

Who was selected to be the first director of the Radio Corporation of America?

Owen Young

The wet’s preferred candidate for the 1924 United States presidential election was

Alfred E. Smith

During World War I, the psychologist Robert M. Yerkes administered a series of intelligence test to millions of

U.S. Army recruits

The Supreme Court Case Schenk v. The United States is associated with what amendment to the Constitution?

the First Amendment

Red Grange was the star half-back for what University’s football team during the 1920’s?

University of Illinois

The Model T was discontinued in what year?

1927

Alain Locke is considered to be the father of

The New Negro Movement

By 1919, the largest labor union in the United States was the

AFL

William Tilden was a famous amateur athlete of what sport in the 1920s?

tennis

The Dust Bowl primarily impacted what geographical area of the United States?

the Great Plains

The pseudoscientific movement of the 1920s that asserted that some human races were superior to others and that moral character traits and poverty were hereditary is called

Eugenics

The “Elaine Massacre” occurred in 1919 in what state?

Arkansas

In the spring of 1927, heavy rainfall led to massive flooding along what United States river?

Mississippi River

The idea that U.S. citizenship is automatically granted to any person born in the United States is called

birthright citizenship

The United States crackdown on radicalism following the Bolshevik Revolution was called the

Red Scare

In 1925, John Scopes was charged with violating what act?

Butler Act

The first licensed radio station in the United States was

KDKA

What did the Kellogg-Briand Pact officially renounce?

war as an instrument of national policy

The U.S. Supreme Court Case Buck v. Bell decision upheld the constitutionality of sterilization laws in what state?

Virginia

The first woman elected to the House of Representatives was

Jeanette Rankin

Which type of performances did Aimee Semple McPherson include in her services at Angelus Temple?

lavish spectacles with actors and music

Planned obsolescence was a strategy pioneered by manufacturers of which of the following?

lightbulbs

The Lost Generation formed an expat community in what European city in the 1920s?

Paris

The practice of “buying on margin” allowed investors to borrow against what in order to purchase large amounts of stocks?

future profits

The establishment of the League of Nations was a part of President Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan called

Fourteen Points

What was the value of a Montgomery Ward stock three years after the crash, compared to the $138 before?

$4

By 1910, the Lower East Side of Manhattan was primarily inhabited by

Jewish Immigrants

The “Tin Lizzie” was a nickname for the

Model T

The largest bank failure in American history occurred on December 11th, 1930, when which bank collapsed?

Bank of United States

What early film glorified the original Ku Klux Klan?

Birth of a Nation

The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the sale of what substance?

acohol

By 1930, roughly what percentage of women over the age of 16 worked outside of the home?

25%

Actress Clara Bow played Betty Lou Spence in this 1927 film titled

It

Herbert Hoover first became involved in politics during World War I, when he led the Commission for Relief of

Belgium

Who served as Commander of the American Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War I?

John Pershing

The Passing of the Great Race was written by

Madison Grant

Which corporation manufactured and sold the Monitor Top refrigerator?

General Electric

The 1924 Democratic party’s presidential nominee, John Davis, was from what state?

West Virginia

In the 1920s, the Chicago Defender was a very popular African American ____

newspaper

Which immigration act imposed literacy tests and banned all immigration from Asia?

Immigration Act of 1917

Gertrude Ederle is most famous for being the first woman to

swim across the English Channel

What city was referred to as the “Motor City”?

Detroit, Michigan

What practice led to Congress to pass the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act?

investing pools

University President Abbott Lawrence Lowell campaigned to limit the number of Jewish students admitted to which University?

Harvard

The United States military was involved in what offensive during World War I that continued until the armistice on November 11, 1918?

Meuse-Argonne

The book Revolt of Modern Youth argued for the widespread adoption of what kind of marriage?

companionate marriage