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Data from the U.S. Army Intelligence Tests indicated that the average mental age of White Americans was
13
Which New York neighborhood attracted many artists, intellectuals, and bohemians in the 1920s?
Greenwich Village
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in which decade?
1880s
Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen were all authors and poets associated with the _.
Harlem Renaissance
His long residence in the United States, his exceptional proficiency in English, his abiding loyalty to the United States, and his children’s enrollment in public schools were examples used to describe his assimilation in the U.S.
Ozawa
What made it illegal in Virginia for white Americans in Virginia to marry anyone classified as “non white”?
The Racial Integrity Act of 1924
Virginia’s interracial marriage ban remained on the books until it was overturned in the
1960s
Which Supreme Court Justice was a major advocate of eugenic sterilization?
Oliver W. Holmes
Takao Ozawa came to the United States from his home country of
Japan
At the start of World War I, Robert Yerkes helped oversee the creation of
army intelligence tests
The Emergency Quota Act set limits on immigration based upon the census from which year?
1910
Carrie Buck was an 18-year-old woman institutionalized in
Virginia
The Scopes Trial unfolded in the state of
Tennessee
Eugenics is closely associated with this movement from the early 20th century?
Social Darwinism
The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 was passed in what state?
Virginia
Birthright citizenship is a principle outlined in which of the following Constitutional amendments?
14
Which lawyer earned the moniker of the “Old Lion”?
Clarence Darrow
One example from the _ study which highlighted class differences was the finding that working class people woke up earlier than their middle class neighbors.
Middletown
If one were to know the location of elite universities, the main industry of the midwestern cities, the rules and lingo of bowling, and the names of popular card games I would do well on what?
the U.S. Army Intelligence Test
Who was the leader of New York Zoological Society?
Madison Grant
By occupation, Leo Frank was a(n)
Factory owner
By training, Robert Yerkes was a(n)
psychologist
The case Ozawa v. United States was decided in which year?
1922
Under the Johnson Reed Immigration Act, immigration from which regions to the U.S. were curtailed?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Congressman Albert Johnson was a representative from the state of
Washington
Which woman served as an archetypal flapper of the 1920s?
Zelda Fitzgerald
The Lynds co-authored a groundbreaking study of life in middle America, based in what state?
Indiana
From 1901-1920, about how many people immigrated to the United States?
14 Million
Which novelist coined the term “the lost generation”?
Gertrude Stein
The figure of the __ symbolized youthful rebellion and freedom.
flapper
Takao Ozawa came to the United States in order to go to .
University
The flapper style derived its name from a popular dance named after which U.S. City?
Charleston
The artist Georgia O’Keeffe is recalled for her contributions to what school of art?
Expressionism
The book entitled The Passing of the Great Race is affiliated with what ideological movement?
Scientific Racism
In the 1920s, what city was considered the “divorce capital of the United States”?
Reno
Accused of “the crime of the century,” Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were students at _ _ __ .
the University of Chicago
Bhagat Thind applied for naturalization when he came to the U.S. from which country?
India
In 1930, what ratio of women over the age of sixteen worked outside the home? in every.
1/4
Legislation passed in what year stated that naturalization was open to “any free white person”?
1790
The Johnson Reed Immigration Act was passed in what year?
1924
In the 1920s, women collectively spent about how much nationally on consumer purchases?
30 Billion
Feminists, socialists, painters, and writers are all examples of New York’s so-called Movement.
Bohemian
The Johnson Reed Immigration Act was also known as the
National Origins Act
The novelist Fanny Hurst likened the state of traditional marriage in the 1920s to a(n)
old house
D. W. Griffith is associated with which film?
Birth of a Nation
Nurse, teacher, social worker and secretary were considered socially acceptable professions for ___ in the 1920s.
women
The 1925 book entitled Flappers and Philosophers was authored by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ben Lindsay was the author of
Revolt of the Modern Youth
The Supreme Court case that pertained to the topic of eugenic sterilization was __ v. ___.
Buck v. Bell
What state had more than 250,000 registered members of the KKK by the mid-1920s?
Indiana
The painter Pablo Picasso is associated with which school of art?
cubism
In 1927, which industry leader was at the center of an antisemitic defamation suit by a Jewish lawyer:
Henry Ford
Which individual argued that WWI had unsettled the historical power of European nations?
T. L. Stoppard
Isadora Duncan, Eugene O’Neill, Emma Goldman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay were all members of what?
bohemians
H.H. Loughlin is recalled for his affiliation with what organization?
The American Eugenics Society
By 1910, what New York neighborhood was the most densely populated Jewish community in the U.S.?
The Lower East Side
The significance of the case U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark was its determination of what?
birthright citizenship
Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Willa Cather were all proponents of the _ movement.
modernist
The philosophy of nonconformism and individual expression BEST characterizes which group?
bohemians
Under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, naturalization is the prerogative of
The legislative branch
Who authored The Sun Also Rises in 1926?
Ernest Hemingway
By the early 1900s, what Christian denomination was the largest in the United States?
Catholic (roman)
The significance of the __ study was its effort to examine the educational curriculum of primary schools in the U.S., poll urban industrial workers on their wages and labor conditions, interrogate the reach of communism into the life of a small U.S. city, promote the virtues of small town life amid the backdrop of World War II.
Middletown
The Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell was decided in the year
1927
Ben Lindsay was a major proponent of what concept? __
companionate marriage
Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merell Lynd were associated with what field of study?
sociology
By profession, Ben Lindsay was a(n)
judge
During Reconstruction, what president ordered federal troops to stamp out the KKK?
Ulysses S. Grant
Senator David Reed was a representative from what state?
Pennsylvania
Drinking, smoking, using cosmetics, and visiting jazz clubs were all associated with the ___ lifestyle.
flapper
What piece of legislation imposed literacy tests for those seeking to immigrate to the United States?
The Immigration Act of 1917
Which scholar is credited with introducing the idea of “double consciousness” among African Americans?
W.E.B. Du Bois
One of the key witnesses to testify before Congress in support of the Johnson Reed Act was
Robert Yerkes
Dividing society into so-called ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’ groups, posting that moral character traits were biological and inheritable, advocating for selective breeding of humans based on certain traits, and prohibiting interracial marriage and supporting immigration restriction policies were policies associated with what?
eugenics
Under the Emergency Quota Act, what percent of foreign-born residents were permitted into the U.S.?
3%
One of the major problems with the Middletown study was its failure to capture the experiences of
immigrants
Shtetl is a word meaning “town” in which language?
yiddish
The Immigration Act of 1917 banned all immigration into the United States from which region?
asia
Which president screened the Birth of a Nation film at the White House?
Woodrow Wilson
Who had parents born in China but he was born in San Francisco sued the Supreme Court and was granted U.S. Citizenship?
Wong Kim Ark
Disillusioned by World War I, many Americans relocated to
Paris
With respect to the _ , the significance of the 1890 census was that it preceded the wave of mass immigration that followed for many decades.
Johnson Reed Act
The outcome of the case Ozawa v. United States was the court’s decision that ___ ____ could be used to deny a person American citizenship status
racial taxonomies
Which of the following was a prominent leader in the Immigration Restriction League movement?
Madison Grant