1920s

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Which of the following was NOT a reason for the relative economic prosperity in the 1920s? Options: increased consumer buying aided by easy credit, availability of oil for fuel and innovations for its use, the development of the assembly line

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increased savings by most Americans

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All of the following were forces that helped to bring about Prohibition EXCEPT:
- Dry states wanted a national law because their citizens could go to wet states to subvert their laws
- Businesses felt that productivity could be increased if "blue Monday's" could be eliminated
- The temperance movement had a close alliance with the women's movement and the success of one helped the success of the other
- In order to prove their patriotism most ethnic groups wanted it

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In order to prove their patriotism most ethnic groups wanted it

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Business leaders who wanted to promote a higher level of consumption of their products and get rid of the old ideas of thrift developed:

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installment buying

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Which of the following became a symbol for corruption of the Harding administration? Muscle Shoals, Sacco-Vanzetti, Teapot Dome, Greenwich Village

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Teapot Dome

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This politician, Attorney General under Wilson, took advantage of the Red Scare of 1919-20 to arrest thousands of radicals and either jail them or ship them to Russia. Who was he?

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A. Mitchell Palmer

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Symbolic of the popular fears of immigrants, communism, change, and diversity, this group became very powerful during the 20s with a reputed 5 million members and hatred for anyone who was foreign, Catholic or Jewish, liberal or different. What was the group?

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Ku Klux Klan

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Who was the charismatic political leader of the United Negro Improvement Association who eventually ended up being deported back to his Jamaican homeland for mail-fraud against his own people?

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Marcus Garvey

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All of the following statements concerning the 3 Republican presidencies of the 20s and conditions that existed in the nation are correct EXCEPT: Republicans sought to serve the public good with less direct government action; Government agencies sought to cooperate with big business rather than to regulate it; US foreign policy abandoned internationalism for a return to isolationism and military unpreparedness; Supported by the federal government, labor unions grew in power and influence.

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Supported by the federal government, labor unions grew in power and influence

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Which of the following was a result of Prohibition in the 1920s?
Fall of the stock market,
More jobs on farms,
Less unemployment in cities,
Growth of organized crime

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Growth of organized crime

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At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between

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fundamentalism and modernism