Chapter 22: A Clash of Cultures (1920-1929)

After the rationing of the war years, Americans wanted to have all the modern conveniences such as refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, electric stoves and radios.

• True

• False

Post-World War I economic boom did not benefit farmers because American society had moved away from an agricultural society.

• True

• False

The Harlem Renaissance refers to

• The period when more than six million African Americans migrated out of the South.

• The integration of previously all white neighborhoods and schools.

• the explosion of a new urban black culture that sought to redefine itself through music, art, and literature

• The explosive race riots that erupted to segregation and racial oppression.

African Americans fled from the South in pursuit of

• jobs, higher wages, better benefits, bigger cities

• jobs, higher wages, escape racism, better education

• jobs, higher wages, more hospitable climate, escape slavery

• Jobs, higher wages, escape slavery, better education

The Harlem Renaissance is a direct result of what major event?

• World War I

• The Emancipation Proclomation

• The Roaring Twenties

• The Great Migration

By far the most significant economic and social development of the early twentieth century was the widespread ownership of automobiles.

• True

• False

Post-World War I the United States actively practiced isolationism in an effort to concentrate on issues at home.

• True

• False

The mass production of automobiles changed social life by allowing people to escape the confines of urban life.

• True

• False

This court case tore the country apart, two immigrants were accused of killing a security guard.

• Ford Trials
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Scopes Trial
• Palmer and Hoover

Which constitutional amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of Alcohol?

• 17
• 18
• 19
• 21