Exam 21: The Twenties

Why did Marcus Garvey acquire the Black Star Line Steamship Company?

What kind of obstacles did African Americans encounter in northern cities?

How did the automobile shape American housing?

Which of the following reflected American anxiety about the spread of communism in the wake of the Russian Revolution?

The growth of the Ku Klux Klan outside the South during the 1920s can be attributed to the

What was the impact of the assembly line on American manufacturing?

In his acceptance of the Republican presidential nomination in 1928, Hoover declared confidence that

The corruption scandal that rocked President Warren G. Harding's administration was known as

The Scopes trial was a perfect reflection of the culture wars of the 1920s because it

The "American Plan," proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, sought to undermine labor unions by encouraging business leaders to

Who launched the government crusade to rid the country of political radicals like Emma Goldman, an anarchist and feminist, during the Red Scare of 1919?

The establishment of the American Civil Liberties Union was inspired by

The writers and artists who saw the spread of mass culture and growth of consumerism as assaults on individualism, creativity, and intellectual exploration were known as the

The Sacco and Vanzetti case, like the cases of Charles Schenck and Jacob Abrams, demonstrated a predisposition among native-born Americans to see immigrants as

What did Clifford K. Berryman's cartoon "Juggernaut" of the Teapot Dome scandal in the Washington Evening Star imply?

Due to economic conditions during the 1920s, the majority of Americans

The Harlem Renaissance would not have occurred were it not for the

According to the educator E. P. Cubbery, the work of assimilation included

Who promoted a campaign of anti-Semitic hysteria based on the belief that Jews were attempting to undermine American society and values?

J. Edgar Hoover was the first director of the