Varsity
Which nickname was given to the period of racial violence in 1919?
a. “Yellow Fall”
b. “The Hot Months”
c. “The Long Summer”
d. “Red Summer”
e. “The Disruption Season”
d. “Red Summer”
Which of the following was the major health crisis that affected President Wilson during his campaign to promote the Treaty of Versailles?
a. tuberculosis
b. heart attack
c. influenza relapse
d. stroke
e. pneumonia
d. stroke
The Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924 did which of the following?
a. supported displaced European war refugees
b. established strict quotas limiting immigration from specific countries
c. encouraged Asian immigration
d. promoted multilingual education
e. banned all religious groups from entering the U.S.
b. established strict quotas limiting immigration from specific countries
Who helped pioneer the idea of using radio as a “household utility”?
a. Herbert Hoover
b. David Sarnoff
c. Calvin Coolidge
d. Franklin Roosevelt
e. Henry Ford
b. David Sarnoff
What contributed to the farming crisis in the 1920s?
a. droughts only
b. falling crop prices and high debt
c. labor strikes
d. high foreign demand
e. industrial farming laws
b. falling crop prices and high debt
Which term describes secret bars
where alcohol was sold illegally
during Prohibition?
a. Dive bar
b. Speakeasy
c. Dry halls
d. Public House
e. Silent taverns
b. Speakeasy
The Radio Act of 1927 helped improve which of the following?
a. radio towers that were poorly built
b. stations charging money to listen
c. stations interfering with each other’s signals
d. the invention of color television
e. not enough radios in department stores
c. stations interfering with each other’s signals
Which form of entertainment became widely popular with the spread of movie theaters?
a. board games
b. silent films
c. newspaper comics
d. vaudeville plays
e. sports radio
b. silent films
Which of the following was one of Hoover’s early responses to the Depression?
a. direct aid to individuals
b. relying on voluntary cooperation
c. creating new taxes
d. freezing wages
e. expanding military spending
b. relying on voluntary cooperation
Which Federal act enforced prohibition starting in 1920?
a. Hatch Act
b. Volstead Act
c. Clayton Act
d. Dawes Act
e. Smoot-Hawley Act
b. Volstead Act
Which artistic style focused on breaking traditional forms and embracing
innovation in the 1920s?
a.Realism
b.Romanticism
c.Modernism
d.Classicism
Federalism
c.Modernism
The development of which of the following made radio broadcasting widely accessible to the public?
a. the invention of the telegraph
b. prohibition of silent movies
c. the introduction of vacuum tube receivers
d. global television networks
e. the spread of satellite technology
c. the introduction of vacuum tube receivers
Which scandal involved Italian immigrant investors being promised unusually high returns?
a. Banca Romana
b. Ponzi Scheme
c. Bologna Bailout
d. Parmalat scandal
e. Liberty Visa Affair
b. Ponzi Scheme
Which of the following was one of
President Wilson’s top priorities during the Paris Peace Conference?
a. ensuring Britain retained its colonial holdings
b. limiting U.S. involvement in global conflicts
c. gaining control of Germany's industrial territories
d. establishing American military dominance
e. establishing the League of Nations
e. establishing the League of Nations
The Supreme Court rule in the Ozawa v. United States case was
a. Japanese immigrants could own land
b. dual citizenship to Japanese Americans
c. Japanese immigrants were not white and thus ineligible for citizenship
d. Ozawa was born in the U.S. and therefore a citizen
e. Asian immigrants could vote in local elections
c. Japanese immigrants were not white and thus ineligible for citizenship