Social Science [Section III]

Which two married academics ran a study on Muncie, Indiana in the early 1920s?

Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merell Lynd

What ambitious sociological study was published in 1929?

Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture

In 1924 and 1925, how many KKK members had a march, and where?

2,000 in downtown Muncie - 30,000 along Pennsylvania Ave in D.C.

Which white supremacist film was released in 1915 and praised by Woodrow Wilson?

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish?

birthright citizenship

In what year did the Supreme Court affirm the citizenship of Wong Kim Ark in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and through what?

1898 - birthright citizenship

What does Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution say about naturalization?

naturalization was the sole prerogative of Congress

To whom did the revised Naturalization Act of 1870 extend naturalization to?

immigrants of African descent

When was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed?

1882

Why did the Supreme Court rule against Ozawa in Ozawa v. United States?

physical traits unreliable in establishing a person's race; better to use a geographic & pseudo-scientific definition: "a member of the Caucasian race"

What was the result of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind?

highest court in U.S. codified casual racism of Jim Crow system; "common sense"; many South Asian immigrants stripped of U.S. citizenship

From 1901 to 1920, how many immigrants came to America?

14.1 million

From 1890 to 1924, how many Eastern European Jews immigrated to the U.S.?

2.5 million

By 1910, how many Jews lived in New York City?

over 1 million

Who was Leo Frank?

a lynched Jewish factory owner who was falsely accused of murder

What newspaper published Henry Ford's antisemitic theories concerning supposed Jewish plots to control world politics and economics?

Dearborn Independent

Which Harvard President tried to impose strict limits on the number of Jewish students admitted to the university in the 1920s?

Abbot Lawrence Lowell

Which vice-president of the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) embodied the link between private prejudice and public policy?

Abbot Lawrence Lowell

What did the Immigration Act of 1917 do?

imposed literacy tests; banned all immigration from Asia

What did the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 do?

established maximum quota: 30% of the number of foreign-born residents of a particular nationality as recorded in the 1910 census

When was the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act passed?

1924

What did the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act do?

new national immigration quotas based on 2% of foreign-born population in 1890

Who published The Passing of the Great Race in 1916?

Madison Grant

What book did T.L. Stoddard publish in 1920?

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy

Which psychologist used a fundamentally flawed methodology to administer intelligence tests in 1918?

Robert M. Yerkes

Who were two people who helped found the American Eugenics Society in 1922?

Madison Grant and H. H. Loughlin

Which 1924 law authorized involuntary sterilization of inmates in state asylums?

Eugenical Sterilization Act in Virginia

Who wrote the majority decision for Buck v. Bell and what was it?

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. - upheld constitutionality of Virginia's sterilization law

When was the Racial Integrity Act enacted, and when was it struck down?

1924 -1967

What was the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 book of short stories?

Flappers and Philosophers

What was companionate marriage, who promoted it, and in which 1925 book?

husband and wife entered into a preliminary partnership to measure compatibility; Ben Lindsay; Revolt of Modern Youth

What was the 'divorce capital' of the U.S. during this time?

Reno, Nevada

What was one estimate of women's annual spending on consumer purchases?

$29.3 billion

What percentage of female workers were employed in clerical or secretarial office jobs by the end of the 1920s?

19%

Who were some Bohemians?

Isadora Duncan, Eugene O'Neill, Emma Goldman, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Who coined the phrase the "Lost Generation"?

novelist Gertrude Stein

Who wrote The Sun Also Rises in 1926?

Ernest Hemingway

Who were some groundbreaking American modernist poets?

Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, e.e. cummings

Who were some Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance?

Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jessie Redmon Fauset

Who was the father of the New Negro movement?

philosopher and Howard University professor Alaine Locke

What was the 1925 collection of poems, essays, and fiction curated by Alaine Locke?

The New Negro

What did Du Bois mean by "double consciousness"?

looking at one's Black self through the eyes of white society

Who was the father of psychoanalysis?

Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud

Which book compared the U.S. in the 1920s to a teenager with an identity crisis, when was it published, and who wrote it?

Modern Temper - 1927 - Joseph Wood Krutch

Who were the accused in the murder of Bobby Franks in Hyde Park?

Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb

Who was the "Old Lion" who defended the accused in the "crime of the century"?

Clarence Darrow

What was the Butler Act?

barred teaching theory of evolution

Which organization formed to protest wartime restrictions on free speech?

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

In which year did the Tennessee Supreme Court uphold the constitutionality of the Butler Act?

1927

What was the name of Aimee McPherson's large LA temple, and how much did it cost to build?

Angelus Temple - $1.5 million

Who was the "Bootleg King", and where was he born?"

George Remus - Germany

What did the Volstead Act declare?

selling "medicinal whiskey" was allowed if it was prescribed by a doctor; numbered prescription pads; capped amount of alcohol for each individual

By what percent did the price of beer, gin, and whiskey increase from 1916 to 1928?

600% - 520% - 310%