Question 1

All of the following is true about Jazz, EXCEPT:

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A) It drew together several strains in African American music. 
B) Jazz moved from the South to the North. 
C) Critics feared Jazz would encourage people to abandon sexual self-restraint. 
D) Jazz never had a white audience until the 1940s. 
A) It drew together several strains in African American music. 
B) Jazz moved from the South to the North. 
C) Critics feared Jazz would encourage people to abandon sexual self-restraint. 
D) Jazz never had a white audience until the 1940s. D

Question 2

Religious fundamentalists:

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A) urged the federal government to imprison bootleggers for income tax violation. 
B) saw evolution only as a threat to the Bible's account of creation. 
C) focused exclusively on trying to stop the influx of cheap labor. 
D) viewed evolution as a challenge both to the Bible and religion itself. 
A) urged the federal government to imprison bootleggers for income tax violation. 
B) saw evolution only as a threat to the Bible's account of creation. 
C) focused exclusively on trying to stop the influx of cheap labor. 
D) viewed evolution as a challenge both to the Bible and religion itself. D

Question 3

Throughout the 1920s, the NAACP:

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A) advocated welfare for blacks. 
B) organized marches and protests throughout the South. 
C) tried to secure a federal antilynching law. 
D) successfully elected blacks as local officials in northern cities. 
A) advocated welfare for blacks. 
B) organized marches and protests throughout the South. 
C) tried to secure a federal antilynching law. 
D) successfully elected blacks as local officials in northern cities. C

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
John Collier

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John Collier was an American social refo

Question 5

The "It" in Clara Bow's nickname "The 'It' Girl" stood for:

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A) long hair 
B) stardom 
C) sex appeal 
D) cigarettes 
A) long hair 
B) stardom 
C) sex appeal 
D) cigarettes

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
American Plan

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The American Plan refers to a business-l

Question 7

The Kellog-Briand Pact:

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A) renounced war as a means of solving international disputes. 
B) was a trade agreement between France and the United States. 
C) stopped Japan from invading China in 1931. 
D) aided Germany in paying World War I reparations. 
A) renounced war as a means of solving international disputes. 
B) was a trade agreement between France and the United States. 
C) stopped Japan from invading China in 1931. 
D) aided Germany in paying World War I reparations.

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
Model T

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The Model T, also known as the "Tin Lizz

Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
black separatism

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Black separatism is a political and soci

Question 10

Was Prohibition a success or a failure?

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This question gives students the opportu

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
Lou Gehrig

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Lou Gehrig was an American professional

Question 12

Students may wish to examine the effect the automobile had on the American economy and culture.

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All students will point to the facts tha

Question 13

All of the following is true about Henry Ford's assembly line, EXCEPT:

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A) It made the Model T affordable for millions of American families. 
B) It turned the automobile into the symbol of the consumer oriented economy of the 1920s. 
C) it made the work process a thoroughly dehumanizing experience. 
D) It secured Ford a virtual monopoly in the car industry. 
A) It made the Model T affordable for millions of American families. 
B) It turned the automobile into the symbol of the consumer oriented economy of the 1920s. 
C) it made the work process a thoroughly dehumanizing experience. 
D) It secured Ford a virtual monopoly in the car industry.

Question 14

How did conditions for minority groups change in the United States during the 1920s?

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Students should have no problem identify

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
Charles Lindbergh

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Charles Lindbergh was an American aviato

Question 16

Intellectuals who left America in the 1920s and became expatriates were:

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A) overly concerned with individual needs and ignored the needs of society. 
B) shallow and dull. 
C) far too liberal. 
D) escaping what they considered America's shallowness. 
A) overly concerned with individual needs and ignored the needs of society. 
B) shallow and dull. 
C) far too liberal. 
D) escaping what they considered America's shallowness.

Question 17

By 1930, women were earning what percentage of bachelor's degrees granted in the United States?

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A) 10 
B) 25 
C) 40 
D) 75 
A) 10 
B) 25 
C) 40 
D) 75

Question 18

Which statement describing the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is most accurate?

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A) It was an exclusively southern organization. 
B) It proclaimed itself to be the largest nonprofit organization in America. 
C) Some Klansmen entered politics, but the Klan never endorsed candidates. 
D) It lost support when a leader was involved in a sex scandal. 
A) It was an exclusively southern organization. 
B) It proclaimed itself to be the largest nonprofit organization in America. 
C) Some Klansmen entered politics, but the Klan never endorsed candidates. 
D) It lost support when a leader was involved in a sex scandal.

Question 19

General Motors and Chrysler competed with Ford by:

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A) undercutting Ford's prices. 
B) hiring away Ford's best workers. 
C) making their cars more comfortable. 
D) utilizing more technologically-advanced manufacturing techniques. 
A) undercutting Ford's prices. 
B) hiring away Ford's best workers. 
C) making their cars more comfortable. 
D) utilizing more technologically-advanced manufacturing techniques.

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following terms: 
Charlie Chaplin

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Charlie Chaplin was a British actor, com

Exam 21: Prosperity Decade, 1920-1928

All of the following is true about Jazz, EXCEPT:

Religious fundamentalists:

Throughout the 1920s, the NAACP:

Instructions: Identify the following terms: John Collier

The "It" in Clara Bow's nickname "The 'It' Girl" stood for:

Instructions: Identify the following terms: American Plan

The Kellog-Briand Pact:

Instructions: Identify the following terms: Model T

Instructions: Identify the following terms: black separatism

Was Prohibition a success or a failure?

Instructions: Identify the following terms: Lou Gehrig

Students may wish to examine the effect the automobile had on the American economy and culture.

All of the following is true about Henry Ford's assembly line, EXCEPT:

How did conditions for minority groups change in the United States during the 1920s?

Instructions: Identify the following terms: Charles Lindbergh

Intellectuals who left America in the 1920s and became expatriates were:

By 1930, women were earning what percentage of bachelor's degrees granted in the United States?

Which statement describing the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is most accurate?

General Motors and Chrysler competed with Ford by:

Instructions: Identify the following terms: Charlie Chaplin

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A Continent on the Move, 1400-1725

Founding the English Mainland Colonies, 1585-1732

The English Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, 1689-1763

Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776

Re-Creating America: Independence and a New Nation

Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796

The Early Republic, 1796-1804

Increasing Conflict and War, 1805-1815

The Rise of a New Nation, 1815-1836

Modernization and Expansion, 1828-1848

Responses to Expansion and Change, 1828-1848

Sectional Conflict and Shattered Union, 1840-1860

A Violent Choice: Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction: High Hopes and Shattered Dreams, 1865

The Nation Industrializes, 1865-1900

Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900

Politics and Foreign Relations in a Rapidly Changing Nation, 1865-1902

The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

The United States in a World at War, 1913-1920

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

Americaïs Rise to World Leadership, 1929-1945

Truman and Cold War America, 1945-1952

Quest for Consensus, 1952-1960

Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968

America Under Stress, 1967-1976

New Economic and Political Alignments, 1976-1992

Entering a New Century, 1992-2013

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