TWENTY TENSIONS

NAME

Which event caused tensions between Americans who embraced modern life and those with conservative values?

• A. The Great War
• B. The Roaring Twenties
• C. The Scopes Trial
• D. The Ku Klux Klan Comeback

How did the federal government in America react to negative attitudes toward foreigners?

• A. They passed laws restricting immigration from Southern and Eastern European nations.
• B. They banned Asian immigration completely.
• C. They closed the door to immigration along the Mexican border.
• D. They targeted Catholic schools with discriminatory laws.

Which religious movement protested biologists' explanations of the development of human life?

• A. Fundamentalism
• B. Evangelicalism
• C. Modernism
• D. Catholicism

What was the outcome of the Scopes Trial?

• A. John Scopes was found guilty and fined.
• B. The theory of evolution was banned in American schools.
• C. The biblical account of creation was ruled as the literal truth.
• D. The trial resulted in a national debate on evolution.

Who was the leader of the religious conservatives during the 1920s?

• A. Aimee Semple McPherson
• B. Ernest Hemingway
• C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• D. Sinclair Lewis

Which American author won a Nobel Prize for literature for his portrayal of the emptiness of war and political efforts for peace?

• A. Ernest Hemingway
• B. Sinclair Lewis
• C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• D. Aimee Semple McPherson

What did the nickname "Lost Generation" refer to?

• A. Young Americans confused about how to live their lives after the Great War and the Roaring Twenties.
• B. Americans who rejected modernism and embraced conservative values.
• C. American authors who moved to Paris to write about their generation.
• D. Americans disheartened by the horror and bloodshed of the war.

Which novel best captured the view of the Roaring Twenties, including the decay of social values and the corruption of the American Dream?

• A. The Sun Also Rises
• B. Main Street
• C. Babbitt
• D. The Great Gatsby

What was the purpose of the re-birth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s?

• A. To protect white society and promote patriotism
• B. To fight against sexually aggressive, unintelligent, criminal-minded blacks
• C. To support Prohibition and oppose flapper-style women
• D. To profit from the sale of Klan-related gear