Unit Test - The Roaring 1920s

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What were the major government policies associated with President Warren G. Harding's "return to normalcy" agenda in the early 1920s? Options: raising taxes and expanding government regulation, encouraging much easier immigration from Mexico and Canada, decreasing American income taxes, and increasing foreign tariffs, providing government grants for the expansion of railroad networks.

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decreasing American income taxes, and increasing foreign tariffs.

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What effect did electrification of homes combined with the widespread use of radios have on the national economy?

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rapid expansion of consumer product markets and advertising.

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How did Charles Lindbergh's accomplishment benefit the national economy?

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Air travel and airline industries could expand much farther and faster than ever before.

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Which two manufactured products were most responsible for encouraging the most consumerism and economic expansionism in the 1920s?

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cars and radios

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How did Henry Ford improve manufacturing systems in America?

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by demonstrating that assembly lines could be used to bring down the cost of even the most complex products.

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What did Jazz music and "flappers" have in common in the 1920s?

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they bothered conservatives because they challenged traditional cultural practices.

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Analyze the map. What major factors were most responsible for causing this population shift in American society?

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racial segregation and the rising popularity of the Ku Klux Klan.

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What did Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday, W.E.B. Dubois, Duke Ellington, and Blues music all have in common?

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They are all associated with the cultural progress of the Harlem Renaissance.

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The first "Red Scare" of the 1920s was a social panic over perceived threats from...

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communist revolutionaries from Eastern Europe attacking the United States.

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The famous “Scopes Monkey Trial” was a court case in Ohio in 1925 that publicly exposed the social conflicts that existed in America over what issue?

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traditional religious values VS modern science