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Chapter 18 Test Review

Total questions: 53

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What was the Scopes trial about?

a)

the desegregation of schools

b)

the increase in charter schools

c)

the teaching of evolution in schools

d)

the decrease in the federal budget for schools

2.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What was a goal of Warren G. Harding as president?

a)

to lower taxes

b)

to promote liberal values

c)

to increase the power of labor unions

d)

to increase the power of the federal government

3.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Baseball legend George Herman Ruth was better known by what nickname?

a)

Babe

b)

King

c)

Lindy

d)

Red

4.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which technology helped spread the popularity of jazz?

a)

radio

b)

microphones

c)

stage lighting

d)

electronic instruments

5.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What most contributed to the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s?

a)

nativist sentiments

b)

challenges to segregation and the popularity of jazz

c)

an influx of immigrants from Africa

d)

competition for political office

6.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What impact did advertising have on teenagers’ leisure time?

a)

It increased the amount of leisure time teens had.

b)

It caused the majority of parents to give their teens cars.

c)

It caused parents to treat their teens more like adults.

d)

It gave teens ideas for ways to spend their time that cost money.

7.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. How did Nellie Tayloe Ross’s ethical governance prevent her re-election?

a)

She pushed to increase the number of women voting, but that increased men’s turnout too.

b)

She was appointed when her husband was impeached, but his enemies voted against her.

c)

She refused to sell out to special interest groups, so those groups backed her opponent.

d)

She listened to the citizens others ignored, but her opponent stole them away with false promises.

8.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which statement supports the idea that nativism and eugenics influenced the National Origins Act?

a)

The Act restricted the number of Asian immigrants.

b)

The Act restricted the number of African immigrants.

c)

The act gave preference to people from western and northern European countries.

d)

The act gave preference to people from eastern and southern European countries.

9.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What most accounted for the rapid spread of flapper fashion?

a)

Flapper fashions were popular in nightclubs.

b)

Employers encouraged flapper fashion in the workplace.

c)

The mass media pushed women to conform to flapper fashions.

d)

Flapper fashion used fabrics that were not affected by wartime shortages.

10.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What factor began the Great Migration of African Americans to the North?

a)

A recession in the South created a shortage of jobs.

b)

African-American soldiers returning from World War I settled in the North.

c)

The need to manufacture defense materials created jobs in northern factories.

d)

Discrimination in the South intensified and drove African Americans out of the southern states.

11.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Which novel spoke of the pain and doubt suffered by those who had fought in World War I?

a)

Babbitt

b)

Main Street

c)

The Great Gatsby

d)

The Sun Also Rises

12.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Why might a politician who didn’t agree with the Ku Klux Klan adopt some of its language anyway?

a)

to keep from being lynched

b)

to appeal to voters who were racists

c)

to reveal the Klan’s flaws in reasoning

d)

to fight back against the Klan’s corruption

13.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Why did women have greater economic power in the 1920s than before?

a)

Far more women had jobs.

b)

Far more women had maids.

c)

Far more women married wealthy men.

d)

Far more women became high-level executives.

14.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What did Amelia Earhart accomplish?

a)

She was the first woman to fly for the U.S. Air Force.

b)

She was the first woman to get paid as much as a man.

c)

She was the first teacher to keep her job when she got married.

d)

She was the first pilot to fly over both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

15.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. How were the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan and the NAACP different?

a)

The Klan used violence; the NAACP used the law.

b)

The Klan dressed in white; the NAACP dressed in black.

c)

The Klan fought corruption; the NAACP fought racism.

d)

The Klan influenced politicians; the NAACP influenced veterans.

16.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. What was the purpose of the Equal Rights Amendment?

a)

to eliminate discrimination by gender

b)

to encourage women to run for office

c)

to protect women from long workdays

d)

to earmark a percentage of jobs for women

17.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Why were some men threatened by the increase in the numbers of working women?

a)

Working women bought flapper clothes to wear to their workplaces.

b)

Working women often learned skills that they could apply in their own homes.

c)

Women who earned their own money were no longer dependent on difficult men.

d)

Women who earned their own money were inexperienced about saving and investing it.

18.

Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Who was the first woman to run for president of the United States?

a)

Victoria Woodhull

b)

Eleanor Roosevelt

c)

Nellie Tayloe Ross

d)

Miriam Amanda Ferguson

19.

What was the Red Scare?

a)

the fear that the ACLU would help Russia invade America

b)

the fear that pollution would lead to toxic blooms of red algae

c)

the fear that communism would take over the United States

d)

the fear that the First Amendment would protect communists

20.

What promise did Warren G. Harding make during his run for president?

a)

a return to normalcy

b)

a stride forward to modernity

c)

an expansion of government

d)

a defense of individual liberties

21.

What does improvisation mean?

a)

performing music that includes scatting

b)

composing music that features lively rhythms

c)

creating and playing music without prior rehearsal

d)

broadcasting music great distances via radio signals

22.

What factor most influenced women’s votes in the years following passage of the 19th Amendment?

a)

how their husbands or other men in their lives voted

b)

which candidates were most likely to stand up for women’s rights

c)

which candidates were most likely to work for the benefit of workers

d)

how much they trusted a candidate to keep the country out of future wars

23.

Which statement supports the idea that First Amendment rights were violated during the Red Scare?

a)

Police made scores of arrests without search warrants.

b)

Authorities deported 300 Russian immigrants to the Soviet Union.

c)

Police broke into homes and offices of suspected radicals without search warrants.

d)

Charles Schenck faced espionage charges for handing out flyers encouraging citizens to resist the military draft.

24.

Why did the NAACP’s membership grow tenfold in just two years from 1917 to 1919?

a)

Soldiers returning from World War I rushed to join the group.

b)

Discrimination increased during the economic slump.

c)

The NAACP began offering rewards to encourage membership.

d)

The Great Migration led to integration, which encouraged members.

25.

How many African Americans moved from the South to the North and the West during the Great Migration?

a)

25,000

b)

90,000

c)

1 million

d)

400 million

26.

Why did race riots increase after the end of World War I?

a)

Rumors spread about African-American men killing black men.

b)

African Americans staged protests in response to discrimination.

c)

Returning soldiers resented the presence of African Americans in their communities.

d)

White workers saw African Americans as economic competitors during the postwar recession.

27.

What did the first two female governors have in common?

a)

They were both former suffragists.

b)

They both replaced their husbands in office.

c)

They both spoke forcefully for women’s rights.

d)

They both offered prior experience working in the government.

28.

The average number of children in families decreased in the 1920s. Which of the following is one reason for the decrease?

a)

Families needed fewer children for work.

b)

The new cars did not have enough seats.

c)

Advertising glamorized life without children.

d)

Family planning wasn’t available.

29.

How did jazz music positively influence society?

a)

Jazz became a socially acceptable substitute for drinking alcohol.

b)

Jazz was performed and enjoyed by both Black and white people.

c)

Jazz expressed feelings of oppression and elicited sympathy.

d)

Jazz encouraged people to go out more and boosted certain businesses.

30.

How did Marcus Garvey’s strategy for improving the lives of African Americans differ from that of the NAACP?

a)

He encouraged African Americans to stage more protests.

b)

He advocated such tactics as lunch counter sit-ins to fight segregation.

c)

He believed African Americans should make more use of the courts in challenging segregation and discrimination in the North and West.

d)

He believed that African Americans should focus more on improving their personal economic conditions than on ending legal segregation.

31.

What was the goal of the Anti-Evolution League?

a)

to ban the teaching of the Bible

b)

to promote a ban on the sale of alcohol

c)

to promote the teaching of psychology in U.S. schools

d)

to ban the teaching of evolution in the United States

32.

What partly accounted for the decision of many women to postpone motherhood following the end of World War I?

a)

Men had long been absent while fighting in the war.

b)

Universities began increasing enrollment for women.

c)

New health care options included family planning.

d)

Employers began to discriminate against women with children.

33.

What role did nightclubs play in the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Nightclubs drew African Americans to neighborhoods like Harlem and fostered creativity.

b)

Nightclubs offered a place for African Americans to gather without interference from white people.

c)

Nightclubs refused to play jazz or blues, so African Americans had to make their own venues.

d)

Nightclubs showcased African Americans’ talents, but didn’t always serve African-American customers.

34.

Why did some female reformers oppose the ERA?

a)

They believed it would discourage employers from hiring women.

b)

They believed it would create tensions between husbands and wives.

c)

They feared it would destroy families and discourage motherhood.

d)

They feared it would threaten laws that protected women in the workplace.

35.

Which factor did the most to increase consumer demand and economic growth during the 1920s?

a)

growth in advertising

b)

greater youth employment

c)

growing power of labor unions

d)

introduction of welfare capitalism

36.

In the 1920s, some argued that women were too “delicate” for physical jobs. What fact refutes this?

a)

By 1930, women were 27 percent of the workforce.

b)

Millions of women labored as factory workers or servants.

c)

Millions of women worked outside the home for pay by 1930.

d)

Women earned about half of what men did for the same jobs.

37.

What legislation did the NAACP fight for?

a)

a law supporting black-owned businesses

b)

a law making it easier to buy a home in cities

c)

a law prohibiting lynching of African Americans

d)

a law supporting diplomatic relations with African countries

38.

How did the spread of electricity in the 1920s boost the economy?

a)

It created more customers for home appliances.

b)

It made people seek out connections with others.

c)

It increased the number of TV ads for tempting products.

d)

It led to the culture of corruption under President Harding.

39.

What happened to Nellie Tayloe Ross after she lost her bid for re-election as governor of Wyoming?

a)

She remarried and retired from politics permanently.

b)

She was appointed director of the U.S. Mint in Washington, D.C.

c)

She ran for U.S. senator from Wyoming and served for two terms.

d)

She used the connections she had made in politics to get a corporate job.

40.

Why did American leaders worry that the ideas of communism might spread to the United States following World War I?

a)

Communism was improving life in the Soviet Union.

b)

Communists were behind social unrest, racial tensions, and strikes.

c)

Many Russians had immigrated to the United States during and after World War I.

d)

Economic struggles led some Americans to view communism as fairer and more equitable than capitalism.

41.

Which statement supports the idea that women were targets of discrimination during the 1920s regardless of race?

a)

Women represented about 24 percent of the national workforce.

b)

Women still took care of all household duties despite managing full-time jobs.

c)

African-American women found it difficult to secure domestic jobs in either the North or the South.

d)

Poor white women in the South often worked at dead-end jobs in textile mills or agricultural processing plants.

42.

To which earlier music do blues songs trace their roots?

a)

slave spirituals

b)

World War I songs

c)

early forms of jazz

d)

African tribal songs

43.

How did silent-movie actors show audiences their emotions?

a)

through facial expressions and actions

b)

through words that encouraged lip reading

c)

through taped soundtracks of modern music

d)

through signs with dialogue that they held up

44.

What effect did Black-owned media have on African Americans’ struggle for equality?

a)

They alarmed whites into cracking down before Black people could gain more freedoms.

b)

They concentrated on telling their readers about local sports events and art exhibits.

c)

They ran sensationalized articles that international audiences tended not to believe.

d)

They raised awareness, which helped protect African Americans from government injustices.

45.

What were the two principles in constant tension in the U.S. government’s pursuit of suspected communists, anarchists, and radicals?

a)

war versus peace

b)

insanity versus logic

c)

liberty versus security

d)

politics versus home life

46.

What was Charles Lindbergh famous for?

a)

being a movie star in some of the first talkies

b)

making the first nonstop solo transatlantic flight

c)

writing brutally honest novels while living in Paris

d)

scoring the most touchdowns of any college football player

47.

How did the Great Migration impact American society during the 1920s?

a)

It contributed to an increase in organized crime.

b)

It resulted in greater competition for jobs and housing in the North.

c)

It led to the decreased enforcement of discriminatory laws in the South.

48.

Between 1919 and 1941, anti-immigrant sentiments had a significant impact on social trends in the United States. Identify the general trends during this period that were related to these anti-immigrant sentiments. Select all that apply.

a)

Foreign-born workforce increased

b)

Nativism became widespread

c)

Immigration quotas were enacted

d)

Immigrants were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan

49.

Following World War I, large U.S. cities experienced increased competition for jobs and housing. Which development was a significant result of this pattern of urban changes?

a)

New Deal legislation to create jobs and stimulate the economy

b)

race riots fueled by intolerance and continuing African-American migrations

c)

the banning of women in the workplace so that they could focus on the home

50.

Which effect did the ratification of the 19th Amendment have on American society?

a)

It led to the growth of organized crime.

b)

It increased the number of eligible voters.

c)

It prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages.

d)

It lowered the required age for participation in elections.

51.

Select two effects of the migration shift identified in the Great Migration context: From 1910 to 1930, approximately 1.6 million migrants left rural areas in Southern states and moved to Northern cities.

a)

Jazz was established as an American music genre.

b)

There was increased demand for agricultural labor.

c)

Southern states began to enforce laws that restricted voting rights.

d)

Northern states proposed adopting Jim Crow laws at the federal level.

e)

Cities became cultural centers where experiences were shared and celebrated.

52.

What impact did Prohibition have on U.S. society during the 1920s and early 1930s?

a)

It led to the creation of African American cultural centers in major cities.

b)

It led to increased migration of workers and minorities to northern states.

c)

It led to the establishment of speakeasies and the rise of organized crime.

d)

It led to an economic shift from agricultural production to industrial production.

53.

Which development contributed to the expansion of the suburbs in the United States in the 1920s?

a)

the use of the automobile

b)

the building of skyscrapers

c)

the expansion of farm acreage

d)

the increase in the immigrant population