1920s

All of the following were notable trends and movements of the 1920s EXCEPT

• increase in union membership

• increase in productivity

• urbanization

• consumerism

• business prosperity

Which of the following was the focus of a dispute between modernists and traditionists in the 1920s?

• Ford assembly lines

• Washington Conference

• Scopes trial

• Teapot Dome Scandal

Prohibition led to all of the following EXCEPT

• defiance of the law by large numbers of people

• rise of organized crime

• divisions in the Democratic party 


• widespread smuggling

• greater tolerance among temperance reformers

During the 1920s, both the Sacco and Vanzetti case and the rise of the new Ku Klux Klan reflected

• public fear and resentment of southern and eastern European immigrants

• increased racism resulting from the migration of Black southerners to urban centers in the North

• growing lawlessness resulting from the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)

• the decreased influence of fundamentalist religious groups

• widespread opposition to Congress’ decision to join the League of Nations

The use of installment plans during the 1920s was significant to the economy because it

• caused the average wage of workers to decline

• illustrated a rejection of materialism and luxury for pragmatism

• greatly limited the number of people who had access to credit

• served as a catalyst for a new consumer-based economy

• illustrated the need for lower tariffs to promote trade

Which of the following events illustrates the nativist sentiments of the 1920s?

• The reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan and the passage of the National Origins Act

• The passage of the Volstead Act and the Eighteenth Amendment

• The Washington Naval Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact

• The works produced by the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance

What was the 1920s Harlem Renaissance?

• The refusal of African-Americans to submit quietly to the practices of Jim Crow laws

• The emergence of civic-minded African-American business leaders

• A group of civil rights leaders determined to use the courts to end discrimination

• Emigration of African-Americans from the South to northern cities

• A period of artistic achievement in multiple fields by African-Americans

The Scopes Trial illustrated the nation’s debate over

• religious conservatism versus modern scientific theories

• immigration and fears of leftist radicals

• the rural verses urban split within the nation

• the proper role of government and the New Deal

• women’s suffrage versus the Cult of Domesticity

The groups of American authors disillusioned by society following the First World War are referred to as

• the Harlem Renaissance

• the Beat Generation

• the Lost Generation

• Romanticists

• Transcendentalists

Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)

• Appealed to the small class of black professionals, but never to the masses of poor urban blacks

• Preached that African Americans should remain in the rural South and specialize in farming

• Started African-American owned business ventures and called for a return to Africa

• Gained its main following in the South among sharecroppers