Chapter 30 Test

1.

4 points

Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because

his political principles were widely admired.

he and his wife Ann Morrow Lindbergh made such an appealing couple.

his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with the cynicism and debunking of the jazz age.

Americans were impressed by his boastful personality and awed by his recklessness.

2.

4 points

Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy 0f

abortion rights.

free love.

birth control.

equal pay for equal work.

3.

4 points

The Ku Klux Klan nearly collapsed in the late 1920s when

both political parties sharply criticized the Klan as un-American.

the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.

the advent of radio led to a new level of public knowledge and tolerance.

the immigration restriction laws of the early 1920s were repealed.

4.

4 points

John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of____?"

evolutionary science.

progressive education.

Hegelian philosophy.

psychoanalysis.

5.

4 points

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

women.

foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them as they emigrated to American.

westerners and southerners.

businesspeople and labor leaders.

6.

4 points

The leading cultural critic of the 1920's H.L .Mencken attacked all of the following except

the South

patriotism

technology

marriage

7.

4 points

Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was

installment buying of credit buying of cars.

voluntarily permitting unions to organize in his plants and agreeing to negotiate his auto plants and agreeing to negotiate a union contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) over wages, benefits, and worker safety issues.

design changes the improved speed.

production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile.

8.

4 points

The long-term outcome of the Scoped "Monkey Trial"

represented at best, a hollow victory for Fundamentalists because it cast ridicule of the fundamentalist cause and highlighted the dubious rationality of a relying on a literal theological reading of the Bible to overturn the findings of modern science.

halted the trend of increasing numbers of Christians reconciling the asserted revelations of Christianity with modern science

reversed Fundamentalism's place as a vibrant force in American spiritual life.

permitted the gap between fundamentalist Christian theology and biology to narrow considerably.

9.

4 points

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of

the rampant spread of infectious diseases from Southern and Eastern Europe.

the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to Southern Europeans.

a desire to rid the country of the quota system.

the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.

10.

4 points

Car advertisements in the 1920s reached out to the mass market of American female consumers in all of the following ways except

showing them that cars were respectable for women.

illustrating how automobiles could permit women to ignore their traditional duties as household managers and advance their professional career goals and ambitions.

linking modern, independent women to automobiles.

noting that cars enabled women to better fulfill their roles as household managers.

11.

4 points

All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Council except

promote the resettlement of blacks to Africa.

advocated the idea of developing an elite "talented tenth" to lead African American economic and social progress and promote racial integration in the United States.

was convicted of mail fraud and deported by the U.S. Government.

was sponsored by black-owned entrepreneurs.

12.

4 points

The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by

the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.

Russian Communism's threat to American security.

urban resistance to prohibition.

the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.

13.

4 points

The first talkie motion picture was

The Wizard of Oz.

The Birth of a Nation.

Gone With The Wind.

The Jazz Singer.

14.

4 points

The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was

William Jennings Bryan.

Frederick Taylor.

Robert La. Follette.

A. Mitchell Palmer.

15.

4 points

The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against

Canadians and West Indians.

Latin Americans

southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.

Jews and Muslims.

16.

4 points

Business people used the red scare to

oppose enactment of the American plan.

break the backs of fledgling unions.

campaign for the enactment of the "closed" shop.

reduce prices on consumer goods for Americans.

17.

4 points

The American Airline industry in the 1920a made most of its early profits through

mail contracts with the federal government.

passenger fares.

air freight and bulk cargo.

crop dusting and cloud seeding.

18.

4 points

The prosperity that developed in the 1920's

was accompanied by a foreboding cloud of consumer debt.

led to a growing level of savings by the American public.

enabled labor unions to gain strength.

closed the gap between rich and poor.

19.

4 points

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

murder.

income tax evasion.

running criminal prostitution rings.

conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws.

20.

4 points

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

the lack of a reform impulse in America.

the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.

the growing Communist influence in the Labor movement.

ethnic diversity.

21.

4 points

Although speakeasies and hard liquor flourished, historians argue that prohibition wasn't entirely a failure for all the following reasons except

absenteeism in the workplace decreased.

people consumed less alcohol overall.

bank savings increased.

more people lived a sober lifestyle.

22.

4 points

The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as

celebration of black culture and expressive of prominent and vibrant black community in the North.

the migration of Southern blacks to northern sections of New York City.

the effort to resist racism and segregation in the North.

the movement led by Marcus Garvey.

23.

1 point

The cultural offerings of radio programs and motion pictures in the 1920s

strengthen American life.

contributed to thee standardization of American life.

affirmed and supported the rich diversity of traditional Old Country cultures and values

were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families.

24.

4 points

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

new immigration laws passed in 1924.

the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s.

race riots.

forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.

25.

4 points

The influential film during the 1920's "Birth of a Nation" by D.W. Griffith stirred extensive protest by African Americans because

the film was heavily financed by white racist Hollywood film business owners.

the film depicted the black leader Marcus Garvey in an unfavorable light.

African American were not allowed to see the film in northern movie theaters.

the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists.