Unit 2 History Ch. 26
America: A Narrative History 8th Edition
- 1.In the 1920s, people of Latin American descent became the fastest-growing ethnic minority in the United States.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.The Scopes “monkey trial” sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 4.Proponents of prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America “dry.”
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture’s musical roots.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 7.“Flappers” was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Margaret Sanger distributed contraceptives through the mail.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Women gained the right to vote in 1916 as World War I began.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg were members of Al Capone’s gang in Chicago.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.The culture of modernism emphasized order and certainty.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.During the 1920s, ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.The major American prophets of modernist literature lived in Europe.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.The southern renaissance was characterized by a dying traditional world and the birth of a modern, commercial world inspired by World War I’s industrial production.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because:
- A.
People had been bored by World War I’s rationing of goods
- B.
Postwar culture was fraught with contradictions and tensions
- C.
Southerners neglected agricultural responsibilities
- D.
Northern cities asserted cultural superiority because of industry
- 17.Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:
- A.
Convicted of bombing eight army supply trucks
- B.
Two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
- C.
Finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
- D.
Murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
- 18.The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
- A.
Favored immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
- B.
Encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
- C.
Set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
- D.
Favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
- 19.The 1924 immigration law:
- A.
Stopped the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States
- B.
Encouraged immigration from Japan and China
- C.
Continued an open door policy, whereby almost all new arrivals would be admitted
- D.
Set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
- 20.The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:
- A.
Anti-Semitic rhetoric
- B.
Prohibition
- C.
Fundamentalist religious beliefs
- D.
“100 percent Americanism”
- 21.Who said, “When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat”?
- A.
Clarence Darrow
- B.
Ruth Benedict
- C.
William J. Simmons
- D.
Moorefield Storey
- 22.How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?
- A.
As many as 4 million
- B.
As many as 6 million
- C.
As many as 8 million
- D.
As many as 10 million
- 23.William Jennings Bryan:
- A.
Believed evolution should be taught in science classes
- B.
Prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
- C.
Was the mayor of Dayton, Tennessee
- D.
Was a vocal supporter of the Ku Klux Klan
- 24.The Scopes trial:
- A.
Pitted William Howard Taft, former U.S. president and confessed agnostic, for the prosecution against fundamentalist Clarence Darrow for the defense
- B.
Concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
- C.
Represented victory of the fundamentalist movement in America
- D.
Prosecuted Klansmen for lynching
- 25.Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
- A.
Margaret Sanger
- B.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- C.
The lynching of three Italian anarchists
- D.
The Scopes trial
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