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As the 1920s progressed, farm incomes

• declined due to over production

• inclined with over production

• inclined with inflation

• remained steady

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

• by forcing police to enforce anti-liquor laws

• by making it easier for bootleggers to branch into other illegal activities

• by forcing farmers to grow grain for the production of alcohol

• by strengthening prohibition laws

In 1933, Congress repealed the Prohibition law (18th Amendment) with which amendment?

• 19th

• 20th

• 21st

• 22nd

During the 1920s in the cities of New York and Chicago, what became of African Americans?

• they still faced many Jim Crow Laws

• rose to middle and upper class position

• remained sharecroppers

• African Americans had the same opportunities in the North compared to the South

In the 1920s, how did most US leaders hope to go about avoiding war?

• by avoiding close interaction with other nations

• by joining the League of Nations

• by winning the arms race

• by forcing China to open

At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between...

• biology and science

• education and science

• evolution and science

• religion and science

How was Henry Ford able to reduce the price of the Model T?

• the location of his production plant gave him easy access to the markets

• he studied the Bessemer Process

• Ford adapted 'communism' business practices

• Ford used the assembly line to reduce the time to make a car

What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?

• Harlem did not welcome any African American writers and musicians

• Harlem was an area largely dominated by Mexican American writers

• the residents of Harlem refused to support the NAACP

• the area was a central location for African Americans to voice their opinions about problems they had faced/were facing

In 1929, the stock market crashed because

• the Federal Reserve decreased its money supply

• Germany ceased reparation payments

• investors lost confidence in the market and rushed to sell their stocks

• depositors lost their investments and tried to withdraw all their money from the banks

Which factors helped the hide the economic problems in the 1920s?

• investors loss of confidence in the market

• farmers taking on a second mortage

• Americans purchased many consumer goods on credit

• wages increased at the same time as work productivity