Question 1

-Why did Marcus Garvey choose to appear in full military regalia and plumed hat as the founder and leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association?

Accepted Answer

A)   He wanted to emphasize his background as a veteran of World War I.
B)   He believed that wearing such a uniform would challenge the white stereotype of racial subservience.
C)   He wanted to prove to his followers that he was much more militant than Booker T. Washington.
D)   He desired to rule Liberia as a monarch once African Americans resettled there. B

Question 2

Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, Republican presidents during most of the 1920s,

Accepted Answer

A)   openly supported business interests
B)   used their power to directly aid the ailing farm economy
C)   pursued programs that effected social reform
D)   avoided implication in political scandals A

Question 3

-What was the result of Margaret Sanger's 1929 appearance with her mouth bandaged at Boston's Ford Hall Forum after local officials refused to let her speak publicly about birth control?

Accepted Answer

A)   She was arrested and served 30 days in jail for distributing information about birth control.
B)   Her birth control clinic in Brooklyn was permanently shut down by the government.
C)   Her protest against censorship gave the birth control movement more national publicity.
D)   There was an increase in the number of female deaths due to illegal abortions. C

Question 4

The passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921 .

Accepted Answer

A)   established a system for enforcing Prohibition
B)   provided federal funds for maternity care
C)   severely curtailed child labor
D)   required less regulation of national banks

Question 5

-How does the design of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which was dedicated in 1921 during the Washington Conference, represent the diplomatic goals of the Harding and Coolidge administrations?

Accepted Answer

A)   The laurel wreaths signify that the United States was a world power in the postwar period.
B)   The allegorical figures represent the diplomatic goals of peace, valor, and victory.
C)   The concept of interring an unknown soldier reaffirmed the need for global disarmament.
D)   The hand-joined allegorical figures represent the success of a multinational nonaggression pact.

Question 6

-Based on this souvenir postcard from a lynching in Marion, Indiana, and the photograph of the 1925 Ku Klux Klan march in Washington, D.C., what conclusion can be reached about both lynch mobs and the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)   They revived their activities after being suppressed during Reconstruction.
B)   Their targets included not only African Americans, but also Jews, Catholics, immigrants and feminists.
C)   They were unashamed of their actions and unafraid to reveal their identities.
D)   Although they were usually prosecuted for their crimes, juries rarely found them guilty.

Question 7

Which of the following statements best characterizes "the Lost Generation," a term coined by American writer Gertrude Stein to describe white intellectuals and artists of the 1920s who primarily lived abroad?

Accepted Answer

A)   Members of this group rejected liberal values and the idealism of youth.
B)   "The Lost Generation" honored suburban, middle-class lifestyles and values.
C)   These writers and artists celebrated a new attitude of living spontaneously.
D)   This group encouraged a return to the values of the Victorian era.

Question 8

What was NAACP director James Weldon Johnson referring to when he coined the term "The Red Summer of 1919"?

Accepted Answer

A)   the wave of vicious assaults by whites against black communities
B)   the attacks and arrests made on communists and anarchists during the First Red Scare
C)   the deadly attacks made by rival gang members in organized crime over the sale of alcohol
D)   the militant protests undertaken by suffragists as they tried to get the states to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment

Question 9

What attitude toward birth control did Margaret Sanger encounter in her work?

Accepted Answer

A)   dismay at her prudish recommendation that women simply avoid sex
B)   shock at the possibility that birth control could be used to support eugenics
C)   disinterest from women, who generally wanted as many children as possible
D)   the idea that birth control and the women who used it were indecent

Question 10

In the 1920s, President Coolidge famously said, "They hired the money, didn't they?" What situation was he referring to?

Accepted Answer

A)   financing German reparation payments to the Allies with American capital
B)   French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr Valley after Germany missed a reparation payment
C)   a reduction of overseas loans by American bankers after the stock market crash
D)   opposition to canceling the repayment of World War I war debts by the Allies

Question 11

Jazz could best be described as a melding of European musical traditions and .

Accepted Answer

A)   Latin music
B)   folk music
C)   African-American music
D)   country music

Question 12

Which of the following words best describes the crime associated with the Teapot Dome political scandal that was one of many connected to Warren G. Harding's presidency?

Accepted Answer

A)   violence and murder
B)   bribery and corruption
C)   voter fraud and deception
D)   treason and anarchy

Question 13

-How would an American traditionalist have best described this 1927 photomontage of Charles Lindbergh's arrival in Paris on the Spirit of St. Louis?

Accepted Answer

A)   Lindbergh's flight illustrated the nation's industrial march forward.
B)   Lindbergh's flight renewed faith in the benefits of technology.
C)   Lindbergh exhibited the same adventurous spirit that propelled pioneers across the West.
D)   Lindbergh demonstrated that individual initiative still mattered in American society.

Question 14

-As exemplified by this candy wrapper, what did professional baseball player George Herman "Babe" Ruth pioneer as a way for sports and movie celebrities to become wealthy during the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

A)   giving frequent interviews on radio
B)   endorsing and marketing products that were popular with the public
C)   providing photos and memorabilia to celebrity fan magazines
D)   sponsoring nationally syndicated radio shows to boost sales for a company's products

Question 15

-What factors most likely inspired the image of the "new women" such as those portrayed in this advertisement?

Accepted Answer

A)   the emergence of mass culture combined with young women's turning away from social movements and toward their economic prospects
B)   the perception of women as controlling most purchasing decisions combined with their exodus from the workplace
C)   the continuing success of the women's movement in the wake of the success of the suffragists combined with overall American prosperity
D)   the emergence of car culture combined with the growing wealth of American families

Question 16

-What was one major reason why the Immigration Act of 1924 instituted a quota system to restrict the number of immigrants coming to the United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   Americans wanted to revive Asian immigration to this country at the expense of European immigration.
B)   Americans wanted to limit the number of immigrants coming from Latin America.
C)   Americans feared and distrusted German immigrants who came to the United States after World War I.
D)   Americans were afraid that immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe would spread communism and anarchy.

Question 17

The Dawes Plan resulted in the United States' loaning Germany .

Accepted Answer

A)   its agricultural expertise
B)   naval battleships
C)   diplomatic support in negotiating with the Allies
D)   millions of dollars to pay reparation obligations to the Allies

Question 18

What two opposing issues were used by prosecutors and defenders of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in trying to prove their guilt or innocence regarding the robbery and murder of a Massachusetts payroll guard in 1920?

Accepted Answer

A)   communism versus striking on the job
B)   temperance versus alcoholism
C)   terrorism versus xenophobia
D)   organized crime versus anarchy

Question 19

What did evangelical preacher Billy Sunday mean when he stated in a 1908 speech that his listeners should "get on the water wagon; get on for the sake of your wife and babies…"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Working-class laborers deserved to have a drink after finishing a hard day's work.
B)   Temperance had positive benefits on health and thrift.
C)   It was better for teenagers to drink supervised at home rather than risk drinking contaminated "moonshine."
D)   Those who drank alcohol should give it up for the sake of their family's well-being.

Question 20

Both the Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments to the U.S. Constitution were associated with .

Accepted Answer

A)   increased public participation in federal elections
B)   African American civil rights
C)   women's voting rights
D)   prohibition

Exam 21: A Turbulent Decade: The Twenties