Chapter 20

The immigration quotas that Congress imposed in 1921 were based on the number of persons counted from each nation in the 1910 census.

True

What broad popular sentiment was central to the message of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?

Control of the nation should be returned to native-born white Protestants.

As political feminism faded, women’s demand for personal freedom survived in the consumer marketplace.

True

Which of the following statements about Prohibition is INCORRECT?

Religious fundamentalists opposed the law because it violated personal freedom.

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

assuring Americans that the crisis was temporary and would be resolved by individual efforts.

The United States had never faced an economic crisis as severe as the Great Depression.

True

Twenty thousand unemployed World War I veterans descended on Washington in the spring of 1932 to demand early payment of a bonus due in 1945.

True

What was the stated purpose of the Equal Rights Amendment introduced in the 1920s?

This amendment called for elimination of all legal distinctions based on gender.

Which of the following is true about national politics in the 1920s?

Republicans controlled the White House and supported pro-business policies.

Which of the following played a role in the revitalization of the Ku Klux Klan in the years following World War I?

the release of the film Birth of a Nation in 1915

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

True

Which of the following is true of American farmers in the 1920s?

Overproduction and a depressed foreign market created financial hardship for farmers.

What led to the increase in the African-American population of Harlem during the 1920s?

Many African-Americans chose to leave the South in the early part of the twentieth century looking for better jobs and fewer restrictions.

Nearly every major women’s organization supported Alice Paul’s National Woman’s Party’s proposal for an Equal Rights Amendment.

False

Farmers benefited the least from the prosperity of the decade.

True

The image of big business, carefully cultivated during the 1920s, collapsed as congressional investigations revealed massive irregularities among bankers and stockbrokers.

True

The Great Depression was global, affecting almost every country in the world.

True

Which of the following is true about the United States Supreme Court’s record on preserving civil liberties during World War I?

The Court largely upheld restrictions on First Amendment rights during the war.

Which of the following is true about women who called themselves flappers?

They epitomized a change in standards of sexual behaviour.

Which of the following correctly describes the Harlem Renaissance?

a period of African-American art and ascendancy in 1920s New York City

Propaganda campaigns launched by big business linked unionism and socialism as examples of the sinister influence of foreigners on American life during the 1920s.

True

Which of the following was a major factor in the onset of the Great Depression in 1929?

lack of government regulation of banking and the stock market

Which of the following is true of the presidential administration of Warren Harding?

He led an administration that was plagued with scandals on many levels.

Fundamentalists supported Prohibition, while others viewed it as a violation of individual freedom.

True

The Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis began to speak up for freedom of speech in the 1920s.

True

Which of the following is true about individual American financial savings by the end of the 1920s?

The majority of American families had no savings whatsoever by the end of the 1920s.

Which of the following is true of American foreign policy during the 1920s?

It reflected the close relationship between government and big business.

Under the 1924 Immigration Act, no Europeans were allowed to immigrate to the United States.

False

During the 1920s, the dollar replaced the British pound as the most important currency of international trade.

True

In the early twentieth century, the Ku Klux Klan reemerged in the South, targeting only blacks.

True

What new right were women granted during the 1920s?

suffrage rights

In Schenck v. United States, socialist Charles T. Schenck was convicted for distributing anti-draft leaflets.

True

Which of the following correctly describes the relation between big business and the federal government during the 1920s?

Government policies reflected the pro-business ethos of the decade.