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Which of the following statements characterizes race relations in the aftermath of World War I?
At least 120 blacks were killed in racial violence in the US by 1919
Which of the following statements most accurately characterized women’s political participation during the 1920s?
Women did not vote as a bloc, as politicians had expected
How did the rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s differ from its Reconstruction-era form?
The group targeted Catholics and Jews as well as blacks
The growing pan-Africanism movement that began to emerge among blacks during the 1920s was spurred in part by
black men's military service during World War I
Between 1929 and 1932, U.S. gross domestic production fell by
almost half
Welfare capitalism emerged in the 1920s in part to
stop unionization
Harding campaigned on the platform of returning to “normalcy,” which meant
he would be a common man in government rather than an intellectual
Which of the following describes Governor Alfred E. Smith, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928?
He was the first major-party presidential candidate to reflect the aspirations of the urban working class
Which of the following terms did American writer Gertrude Stein use to describe Americans who had experienced World War I firsthand?
The Lost Generation
What percentage of the U.S. labor force was unemployed by 1933?
25%
Which of the following statements characterizes the Red Scare of 1919–1921?
A series of 1919 bombings led Americans to associate radical political groups with violence
As secretary of commerce under Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover
believed that voluntary cooperation between government and business could replace regulation
Which of the following statements was true of the Harlem Renaissance?
The most visible part of the Harlem Renaissance to most whites was jazz music
Throughout the 1920s, the sector of the American economy in the worst shape was
agriculture
Herbert Hoover asked Americans to do which of the following in response to the economic downtown in 1929?
Tighten their belts and work hard
Which of the following facts regarding Sacco and Vanzetti clearly biased the jury against them?
They were communist
Which of the following statements characterizes the Scopes “monkey trial” of 1925?
The trial quickly became a media circus
Which of the following describes 1920s jazz?
Jazz represented a synthesis of African American music forms such as ragtime and the blues
The flapper, an icon of American culture, represented
the emancipated woman of the 1920s
Which tariff, passed in 1930, raised rates to an all-time high, further deepening the worldwide depression?
Smoot-Hawley
Which of the following statements describes the proceedings against Sacco and Vanzetti?
Scholars still debate their guilt, but most agree that they did not receive a fair trial
How did the U.S. government change immigration restrictions during the 1920s?
The National Origins Act set immigration quotas at 2 percent of each nationality as measured by the 1890 census
The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) recommended that black Americans
return to Africa to obtain the justice unavailable to them in the United States
How did American consumers respond to the economic situation in the early 1930s?
Facing the possibility of hard times and unemployment, most Americans cut back
Which of the following organizations did President Hoover create in 1931 to stimulate the economy through federal loans to major businesses in 1931 and 1932?
Reconstruction Finance Corporation