Deck 21: Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Question 1

Which of the following occurred at the Democratic Party convention in 1924?

A) Democrats chose a vice presidential candidate to attract rural southern voters.
B) After 103 ballots,it nominated William G.McAdoo for the presidency.
C) Conflicts showed that the party was deeply split over various issues.
D) The delegates could not agree on the nomination of a presidential candidate.

Answer 1

Conflicts showed that the party was deeply split over various issues.

Question 2

Which of the following factors contributed to the incredible number of militant strikes that occurred during 1919?

A) Employers sought to reinstitute the ten-hour workday.
B) American companies fired wartime workers and hired returning soldiers.
C) Public support for labor unions made strikes more acceptable.
D) Employers tried to root out labor unions after the war.

Answer 2

Employers tried to root out labor unions after the war.

Question 3

Which of the following statements describes the proceedings against Sacco and Vanzetti?

A) Their acquittal reflected the waning of the Red Scare hysteria.
B) Scholars still debate their guilt,but most agree that they did not receive a fair trial.
C) Despite the high emotions aroused by their case,Sacco and Vanzetti received a fair trial.
D) Their quick trial and execution in 1921 exemplified antiradical hysteria.

Answer 3

Scholars still debate their guilt,but most agree that they did not receive a fair trial.

Question 4

As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding,Herbert Hoover

A) led a renewed campaign of trust-busting to restore competition in the business world.
B) sought to eliminate any type of government intervention in business.
C) worked to extend the power of the War Industries Board and War Labor Board.
D) believed that voluntary cooperation between government and business could replace regulation.

Question 5

Which of the following statements characterizes the Red Scare of 1919-1921?

A) The American public and press blamed labor conflict on the American Federation of Labor.
B) The American Communist Party posed a direct threat to the stability of American society.
C) The Socialist Party threatened to foment violent revolution.
D) A series of 1919 bombings led Americans to associate radical political groups with violence.

Question 6

African Americans who served in World War I returned home to find

A) new appreciation for their patriotism.
B) greater access to jobs when they showed their discharge papers.
C) less racism from whites than before the war.
D) discrimination and race riots.

Question 7

Which major scandal in Harding's administration was named after the national oil reserves it involved?

A) Crédit Mobilier
B) Teapot Dome
C) Sinclair Oil
D) North Shore Oil

Question 8

Which of the following facts regarding Sacco and Vanzetti clearly biased the jury against them?

A) They were Italian immigrants.
B) Both had criminal histories.
C) They were communists.
D) Both were illegal immigrants.

Question 9

Which prominent politician fanned fears of domestic radicalism after a bomb exploded outside his home in 1919?

A) Calvin Coolidge
B) Mitchell Palmer
C) Henry Cabot Lodge
D) Warren G.Harding

Question 10

The use of cultural forms such as Hollywood films and radio programs to export American culture to foreign shores exemplifies what concept?

A) The Harlem Renaissance
B) Soft power
C) Dollar diplomacy
D) Pan-Africanism

Question 11

Which of the following statements characterizes race relations in the aftermath of World War I?

A) The Great Migration of blacks out of the South was quickly reversed after the war.
B) At least 120 blacks were killed in racial violence in the United States by 1919.
C) African Americans continued to follow the advice of Booker T.Washington.
D) Racial confrontations did not involve black soldiers,who were lauded in the South.

Question 12

During the 1920s,the U.S.military intervened in or occupied

A) Nicaragua.
B) Bolivia.
C) El Salvador.
D) Cuba.

Question 13

Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to "normalcy," which meant

A) continuing the Progressive Era reforms.
B) putting Republicans back in office.
C) he would be a common man in government rather than an intellectual.
D) a strong probusiness stance and conservative cultural values.

Question 14

In which of the following cities was the prosperous Greenwood district burned down in racial riots in 1921?

A) Tulsa,Oklahoma
B) Boston,Massachusetts
C) Detroit,Michigan
D) Charlotte,North Carolina

Question 15

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. The towering importance of the American motion picture on the world's markets cannot be safely explained by the unlimited financial resources at the disposal of the American producers....Its main reason is the mentality of the American picture,which,notwithstanding all attacks and claims to the contrary,apparently comes nearest to the taste of international cinema audiences.
)..The specific and unique element of the American film is the fact of its being absolutely uncomplicated.Being what is called "naïve" it knows no problems....
It is really preferable to have a picture too light rather than too heavy,because in the latter case there is a danger that the public will not understand the story.This is the worst thing that can happen with a picture....
The subject matter of the film is the main consideration.The idea itself must be capable of being understood all over the world [and based in] those great human emotions that are the same for all countries....That is why,as far as possible,novel yet nonetheless perennial plots are chosen-love and pain,humour and sentiment,art and nature,science and the primitive.
Erich Pommer,"Hollywood in Europe," 1928
The passage above was most likely written in response to

A) the global ramifications of World War I wartime patriotism.
B) arguments that Americans were destined to expand their culture and norms to others.
C) the development of a variety of cultural expressions for migrant,regional,and African American artists.
D) urban,industrial society's national culture making shared experiences more possible.

Question 16

Who succeeded Warren Harding as president upon his death in 1923?

A) Herbert Hoover
B) Albert Fall
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) John W.Davis

Question 17

Which of the following statements characterizes American business during the 1920s?

A) Family-run businesses,rather than oligopolies or monopolies,became the norm.
B) The two hundred largest corporations controlled almost half of the national nonbanking wealth.
C) The number of mergers dwindled to almost nothing as businesses stopped consolidating.
D) American businesses concentrated their marketing efforts exclusively in the United States.

Question 18

Which of the following statements characterized U.S.foreign policy during the 1920s?

A) The United States was strongly isolationist,retreating from involvement in world affairs.
B) The newly powerful United States overwhelmed other countries in the League of Nations.
C) The United States actively sought to facilitate American economic expansion abroad.
D) The nation ended its use of military intervention in Latin America to protect U.S.investments.

Question 19

Which of the following politicians won tremendous political support during the strikes of 1919,when he claimed,"There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody,anywhere,anytime"?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Calvin Coolidge
C) Warren Harding
D) Herbert Hoover

Question 20

Welfare capitalism emerged in the 1920s in part to

A) win government pensions for the elderly.
B) stop unionization.
C) ensure workers' health.
D) improve workers' productivity.

Question 21

Which of the following sectors of American society saw the greatest amount of improvement in the 1920s?

A) Industrial output
B) Working conditions
C) Race relations
D) The distribution of income

Question 22

Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E.Smith,the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?

A) Smith had a speaking voice ideally suited to the new medium of radio.
B) He was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class.
C) Smith was a product of Chicago's influential Irish political machine.
D) He lost the election because he failed to carry the heavily industrialized states in the urban Northeast.

Question 23

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. * Laws to require the reading of the Holy Bible in every American public school.
* Recognition of the fact ...that Romanism is working here to undermine Americanism....Since Roman Catholics give first allegiance to an alien political potentate,the pope ...their claim to citizenship,to the ballot,and to public office in this Protestant country is illegitimate,and must be forbidden by law....
* A law to destroy the alien influence of the foreign language press [by] requiring that the English language be used exclusively.
* )..Recognition of the tendency toward moral disintegration,resulting from the activities ...of the anti-Christian Jews,in our theaters,our motion pictures,and in American business circles;the discontinuance of these anti-Christian activities,and the exclusion of Jews of this character from America.
* The return of the Negroes to their homeland of Africa,under the protection and with the help of the United States Government.
* Strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States,including the Prohibition Amendment,by every citizen.
"Program for America," in the KKK newspaper American Standard,April 15,1925
The sentiments expressed in the excerpt above contributed most directly to

A) the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South.
B) the establishment of highly restrictive immigration quotas.
C) labor strikes and racial strife disrupting society.
D) a repressive atmosphere for civil liberties,resulting in official restrictions on freedom of speech.

Question 24

A major weakness of the 1920s economy was the

A) lack of credit.
B) soaring cost of farm products.
C) unequal distribution of wealth.
D) lack of cooperation between business and government.

Question 25

Which of the following is true regarding the Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921?

A) It was the first federally funded,health-care legislation.
B) The act excluded working-class women.
C) It prohibited midwives and home births.
D) The National Woman's Party opposed its passage.

Question 26

Which of the following presented the greatest challenges to the United States after World War I?

A) The war brought to light the differences among Americans.
B) The war had left the United States deeply in debt.
C) Women refused to leave the workforce.
D) The economy slowed after the war.

Question 27

Which of the following statements describes the role of automobiles in the American economy of the 1920s?

A) The auto industry played a major role in stimulating prosperity.
B) The car industry bankrupted the railroads during the 1920s.
C) Cars' affordability meant that most Americans could buy them.
D) Cheap gasoline spurred Americans to migrate to the West.

Question 28

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the National Origins Act represented a resurgence of

A) religious revival.
B) nativism.
C) jingoism.
D) fundamentalism.

Question 29

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. * Laws to require the reading of the Holy Bible in every American public school.
* Recognition of the fact ...that Romanism is working here to undermine Americanism....Since Roman Catholics give first allegiance to an alien political potentate,the pope ...their claim to citizenship,to the ballot,and to public office in this Protestant country is illegitimate,and must be forbidden by law....
* A law to destroy the alien influence of the foreign language press [by] requiring that the English language be used exclusively.
* )..Recognition of the tendency toward moral disintegration,resulting from the activities ...of the anti-Christian Jews,in our theaters,our motion pictures,and in American business circles;the discontinuance of these anti-Christian activities,and the exclusion of Jews of this character from America.
* The return of the Negroes to their homeland of Africa,under the protection and with the help of the United States Government.
* Strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States,including the Prohibition Amendment,by every citizen.
"Program for America," in the KKK newspaper American Standard,April 15,1925
The excerpt above would be most useful to historians analyzing the

A) emergence of the civil rights movement.
B) impact of changing demographics on political and cultural conflict.
C) radical,union,and populist movements in the United States.
D) creation of a new mass culture in the United States.

Question 30

The flapper,an icon of American culture,represented

A) the emancipated woman of the 1920s.
B) the lifestyle of most women in the United States.
C) an effort by women to emulate Mary Pickford.
D) a return to traditional,prewar values.

Question 31

How did the rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s differ from its Reconstruction-era form?

A) It abandoned violence in favor of economic boycotts.
B) The new Klan found most of its support in the rural South.
C) The group targeted Catholics and Jews as well as blacks.
D) It was a patriotic group,not a racist one.

Question 32

The Equal Rights Amendment,first proposed in 1923,asserted equal rights regardless of

A) race.
B) class.
C) gender.
D) nationality.

Question 33

How did the U.S.government change immigration restrictions during the 1920s?

A) The National Origins Act set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census.
B) The 1929 Immigration Act relaxed quotas for Europeans but tightened those for Latin Americans.
C) The 1921 Emergency Immigration Bill set quotas at 10 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1900 census.
D) To meet the need for cheap labor,the 1929 Immigration Act reversed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 34

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. * Laws to require the reading of the Holy Bible in every American public school.
* Recognition of the fact ...that Romanism is working here to undermine Americanism....Since Roman Catholics give first allegiance to an alien political potentate,the pope ...their claim to citizenship,to the ballot,and to public office in this Protestant country is illegitimate,and must be forbidden by law....
* A law to destroy the alien influence of the foreign language press [by] requiring that the English language be used exclusively.
* )..Recognition of the tendency toward moral disintegration,resulting from the activities ...of the anti-Christian Jews,in our theaters,our motion pictures,and in American business circles;the discontinuance of these anti-Christian activities,and the exclusion of Jews of this character from America.
* The return of the Negroes to their homeland of Africa,under the protection and with the help of the United States Government.
* Strict adherence to the Constitution of the United States,including the Prohibition Amendment,by every citizen.
"Program for America," in the KKK newspaper American Standard,April 15,1925
The passage above best serves as evidence of

A) increasing xenophobia in the United States.
B) debates about the proper relationship between the national government and the states.
C) the rise of voluntary organizations to promote religious reforms.
D) the emergence of new community systems to replace old family and local relationships.

Question 35

The culture wars of the 1920s were due in part to

A) a backlash against big business as many poorer Americans struggled economically.
B) the tremendous growth of cities from immigration and rural migration.
C) political battles between Democrats and Republicans throughout the decade.
D) the change in foreign policy from isolation to internationalism.

Question 36

Which of the following statements most accurately characterized women's political participation during the 1920s?

A) Due to their political inexperience,few women sought public office.
B) Women were most effective as members of political parties' committees.
C) Women had little success in political lobbying and no formal organizations of their own.
D) Women did not vote as a bloc,as politicians had expected.

Question 37

Which of the following statements characterizes the Republican victory in the 1928 election?

A) Hoover carried all the heavily industrialized states and large cities.
B) Hoover attracted the votes of many immigrant Catholic women.
C) Given America's prosperity,it was unlikely that any Democrat could have defeated Herbert Hoover.
D) Hoover,a political unknown in comparison to Smith,picked up votes by attacking Smith's reputation as a progressive.

Question 38

Which of the following is correct about the Scopes trial?

A) John Scopes was found not guilty.
B) The American Civil Liberties Union challenged the constitutionality of the trial.
C) William Jennings Bryan defended Scopes in the trial.
D) Clarence Darrow defended the right to teach evolution in schools.

Question 39

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. The towering importance of the American motion picture on the world's markets cannot be safely explained by the unlimited financial resources at the disposal of the American producers....Its main reason is the mentality of the American picture,which,notwithstanding all attacks and claims to the contrary,apparently comes nearest to the taste of international cinema audiences.
)..The specific and unique element of the American film is the fact of its being absolutely uncomplicated.Being what is called "naïve" it knows no problems....
It is really preferable to have a picture too light rather than too heavy,because in the latter case there is a danger that the public will not understand the story.This is the worst thing that can happen with a picture....
The subject matter of the film is the main consideration.The idea itself must be capable of being understood all over the world [and based in] those great human emotions that are the same for all countries....That is why,as far as possible,novel yet nonetheless perennial plots are chosen-love and pain,humour and sentiment,art and nature,science and the primitive.
Erich Pommer,"Hollywood in Europe," 1928
Which of the following developments from the nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries compares most closely to the description that the excerpt provides?

A) The emergence of a national culture combining European forms with local and regional cultural sensibilities in the 1820s and 1830s
B) The nation's transformation into a more participatory democracy in the 1830s and 1840s
C) The development of an increasingly homogeneous mass culture in the 1950s
D) The spread of computer technology and the Internet into daily life,leading to new social behaviors and networks in the 1990s and 2000s

Question 40

Which of the following statements characterizes consumer spending during the 1920s?

A) Installment buying boosted consumerism.
B) Higher incomes discouraged borrowing.
C) Americans emphasized thrift.
D) Credit cards fueled spending.

Question 41

Which of the following statements was true of the Harlem Renaissance?

A) The most visible part of the Harlem Renaissance to most whites was jazz music.
B) Most of its participants had no significant appeal outside the black community.
C) For generations,critics dismissed the participants' work as race-based and old-fashioned.
D) Most participants were not Americans by birth,but hailed from Trinidad and Jamaica.

Question 42

Answer the following questions :
flapper

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 43

Answer the following questions :
Red Summer

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 44

How did the Great Depression affect women's participation in the workforce in the early 1930s?

A) Prohibitions on hiring women led to falling rates of women's employment.
B) Despite bans on women's employment,their workforce participation increased.
C) White women were unemployed at a much greater rate than black women.
D) Traditional women's jobs went to men,driving women out of the workforce.

Question 45

What was the outcome of the stock market crash of October 1929?

A) The federal government paid billions of dollars to bank customers who lost their deposits.
B) Only high-rolling Wall Street investors actually lost money during the months that followed the crash.
C) Many middle-class Americans without stock investments lost their life savings when banks failed.
D) Unemployment fell as more and more people entered the workforce to earn extra money.

Question 46

The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)recommended that black Americans

A) resort to violence if necessary to achieve racial justice.
B) work more aggressively through the court system to end segregation.
C) pressure Congress to set aside a state for a black separatist society.
D) return to Africa to obtain the justice unavailable to them in the United States.

Question 47

Answer the following questions :
soft power

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 48

Answer the following questions :
Palmer raids

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 49

Answer the following questions :
American Plan

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 50

Answer the following questions :
Universal Negro Improvement Association

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 51

What was the significance of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)in the 1920s?

A) It represented a major black artistic movement.
B) The UNIA created the Harlem Renaissance.
C) It was the only biracial organization of its day.
D) It left a legacy of activism among working-class blacks.

Question 52

Answer the following questions :
Teapot Dome

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 53

The most celebrated jazz soloist of the 1920s was the trumpeter

A) Duke Ellington.
B) Zora Neale Hurston.
C) Bix Beiderbecke.
D) Louis Armstrong.

Question 54

Why did the marriage rate in the United States fall to a historical low around 1933?

A) The Depression forced people to delay marriage.
B) Marriage was becoming unpopular.
C) Women were entering the workforce.
D) Advocates for women's rights encouraged it.

Question 55

The growing pan-Africanism movement that began to emerge among blacks during the 1920s was spurred in part by

A) black men's military service during World War I.
B) nativist whites' efforts to deport blacks.
C) the anticolonial movements that had transformed Africa.
D) the dismal American economy of the 1920s.

Question 56

Answer the following questions :
Hollywood

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 57

Answer the following questions :
welfare capitalism

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 58

Which of the following describes 1920s jazz?

A) It was popular among black southerners but failed to gain acceptance among white northerners.
B) Jazz represented a synthesis of African American music forms such as ragtime and the blues.
C) It expressed,among other things,black Americans' desire to assimilate with the white population.
D) Jazz was rarely recorded or performed publicly because of discriminatory laws against African Americans.

Question 59

How did American consumers respond to the economic situation in the early 1930s?

A) Many increased their spending in hopes of stimulating the faltering economy.
B) The drop in prices stimulated a major buying spree for middle-class spenders.
C) Facing the possibility of hard times and unemployment,most Americans cut back.
D) Falling production rates meant that few goods were available for Americans to purchase.

Question 60

Answer the following questions :
associated state

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 61

Answer the following questions :
Ku Klux Klan

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 62

What factors,both international and domestic,contributed to the emergence of the Red Scare?

Question 63

Answer the following questions :
dollar diplomacy

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 64

Answer the following questions :
Harlem Renaissance

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 65

Answer the following questions :
Jazz

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 66

Answer the following questions :
Eighteenth Amendment

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 67

What was the Scopes "monkey trial" and how did it reflect the growing divisions in American society in the 1920s?

Question 68

Answer the following questions :
Red Scare

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 69

What was welfare capitalism and how did it affect the lives of American workers in the 1920s?

Question 70

Answer the following questions :
National Origins Act

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 71

What was the relationship between the resurgent Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and the National Origins Act of 1924?

Question 72

How did the automobile exemplify both the opportunities and the risks of 1920s consumer culture?

Question 73

Answer the following questions :
American Civil Liberties Union

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 74

What factors contributed to racial and labor violence after the war?

Question 75

Answer the following questions :
consumer credit

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 76

Answer the following questions :
pan-Africanism

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 77

Answer the following questions :
National Association for Colored Women

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 78

Answer the following questions :
Sheppard-Towner Federal Maternity and Infancy Act

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 79

Answer the following questions :
Scopes trial

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

Question 80

Answer the following questions :
Volstead Act

A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.