1920s Politics
Consumerism of the 1920s
Legal Struggles
Progress
Immigration
100
30. Which of the following represents a difference between the New York newspapers?
A. Only one newspaper suggests that the Bonus Army supported fascist ideas.
B. Only one newspaper suggests that the Bonus Army receive payment.
C. Only one newspaper recommends the burning of the Bonus Army camp.
D. Only one newspaper specifically calls for restraint in the government’s response.
Only one newspaper specifically calls for restraint in the government’s response.
100
Which of the following most directly influenced the trends shown in the graph?
a. corporate tax breaks
b. the introduction of the installment plan
c. the Harlem Renaissance
d. the signing of the Bretton-Woods agreement
the introduction of the installment plan
100
The cartoon above was intended primarily as a satirical comment on…?
a. Social Darwinism
b. KKK
c. Election of 1896
d. Scopes trial
Scopes Trial
100
The women in this picture were notable for their:
A. Insisting upon having many children
B. Protesting against benefits for World War I veterans
C. Opposing women’s suffrage after the 19th Amendment
D. Challenging of tradition ideas regarding women
Challenging of tradition ideas regarding women
100
The ideas in the above cartoon were most similar to those of which group?
Nativists
Abolitionists
Utopians
Reformers
Nativists
- Nativists
200
15. The political cartoonist who drew the picture below probably believed that…?
a. European nations were pleased with aid given to them by the Coolidge administration.
b. governmental agencies were receiving too much financial support from the Coolidge administration.
c. American industrial and commercial leaders approved of the Coolidge administration’s business policies.
d. consumers had benefited from the Federal Reserve Board’s tight money policy from 1925 through 1928.
American industrial and commercial leaders approved of the Coolidge administration’s business policies.
200
The trends shown in the graph had the most direct impact on which of the following trend(s) after 1929?
a. the changing role of cinema
b. improvements to both environmental and ecological systems
c. declining consumer demand
d. increasing racial strife
declining consumer demand
200
Considering the answer to the previous question, the main issue depicted in the cartoon is the…?
a. increase in the federal bureaucracy under Republican administrations
b. growth and expansion of organized crime in the 1920s.
c. threat that increasing immigration posed to conservative Americans in the 1920s.
d. over speculation of the stock market in the 1920s.
growth and expansion of organized crime in the 1920s.
200
Langston Hughes, is most closely identified with which literary movement in American History?
Transcendentalism
Realism
The Harlem Renaissance
Modernism
The Harlem Renaissance
200
What is the author trying to say?
Europeans are creative and their technology should be a major influence on American culture
A bridge needs to be constructed, connecting Europe and North America
Immigration into the United States needs to be limited
An age requirement on citizenship will make the United States strong
Immigration into the United States needs to be limited
300
"A widely held view of the Republican administrations of the 1920s is that they represented a return to an older order that had existed before Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became the nation’s chief executives. Harding and Coolidge especially are seen as latter-day McKinley’s, political mediocrities who peopled their cabinets with routine, conservative party hacks of the kind almost universal in Washington from the end of the Civil War until the early 20th century. In this view, the 1920s politically were an effort to set back the clock."
The author of the excerpt clearly compares government leadership in the 1920s to government leadership during which of the following periods?
Progressive Era
Manifest Destiny Era
Gilded Age
World War I Era
Gilded Age
300
29. Which of the following arguments is supported by the chart?
A. More and more Americans were becoming college educated by 1929.
B. Middle class Americans were seeing a rise in income in 1929.
C. The South was no longer the poorest region of the country by 1929.
D. Distribution of income in the United States was skewed in 1929.
Distribution of income in the United States was skewed in 1929.
300
If most of [the anarchists] end up being deported, they will have been lucky compared to Sacco and Vanzetti, who were imprisoned for some seven years before their execution on August 22, 1927. Their treatment cast the US in a harsh new light. The Statue of Liberty, once a beacon of hope, was now the Statue of Irony, a symbol of justice gone wrong and freedom denied.
The Nation, August 31, 2010
Which of the following best summarizes the author’s viewpoint regarding the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial?
A. The defendants were guilty and should have been executed.
B. The defendants should have served longer in prison.
C. The defendants’ treatment did not uphold America’s system of justice.
D. The defendants’ trial should have been held in Europe.
The defendants’ treatment did not uphold America’s system of justice.
300
One Way Ticket by Langston Hughes
I am fed up
With Jim Crow laws,
People who are cruel
And afraid,
Who lynch and run,
Who are scared of me,
And me of them.
I pick up my life
And take it away
On a one-way ticket
Gone Up North
Gone Out West
Gone!
The poem above refers to which event in U.S. history?
The Civil War
Reconstruction
The Great Migration
World War I
The Great Migration
300
The ideas expressed in the above cartoon most likely led to the passage of the
Federal Reserve Act
National Origins Act
Treaty of Versailles
Roosevelt Corollary
National Origins Act
400
"A widely held view of the Republican administrations of the 1920s is that they represented a return to an older order that had existed before Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became the nation’s chief executives. Harding and Coolidge especially are seen as latter-day McKinley’s, political mediocrities who peopled their cabinets with routine, conservative party hacks of the kind almost universal in Washington from the end of the Civil War until the early 20th century. In this view, the 1920s politically were an effort to set back the clock."
President Harding’s pardon of Eugene Debs
Presidents Harding and Coolidge laissez-faire support of business
President Coolidge’s call for an anti-lynching law
President Harding’s support of an 8-hour workday within the steel industry.
Presidents Harding and Coolidge laissez-faire support of business
400
Which of the following most likely had the greatest impact on the trend shown in the graph?
a. increasing inflation
b. a steady increases in wages for industrial workers
c. a growing international market for U.S. goods
d. business investments in mass production methods
business investments in mass production methods
400
“In 1925 a trial in Tennessee threw into sharp relief the division between traditional values and modern secular culture. John Scopes, a teacher in a Tennessee public school was arrested for violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. HIs trial became a national sensation. The proceedings were even carried live on the radio.”
From “Give me Liberty; an American History
The main issue argued at the trial was whether
science, specifically evolution, contradicted the word of God and should science be taught in schools.
Scopes had actually violated the law
religion should influence what is taught in schools
the Bible was literally correct and humans were created by God as they are now
science, specifically evolution, contradicted the word of God and should science be taught in schools.
400
Source: W.E.B.Du Bois, The Crisis, 1922.
The main economic venture of Marcus Garvey was the Black Star Line. This steamship venture was the foundation stone of Garvey’s rise to popularity among Negroes. African migration is a century old and a pretty thoroughly discredited dream. Autonomous African Negro States have been forecast by scores of Negro leaders and writers. But a definite plan to unite Negrodom by a line of steamships was a brilliant suggestion and Garvey’s only original contribution to the race problem. But, asked the critic, can it be done? Has Garvey the business sense, can he raise the capital, can he gather the men?
Considering the answer to the previous question, which organization did Garvey’s values most directly conflict with?
a. NAACP
b. UNIA
c. Ku Klux Klan
d. Liberty League
KKK
400
17.The cartoon to the left refers to which of the following?
a. Fear of Communism
b. Open Door Notes
c. The Great Depression
d. Pullman strike
a. Fear of Communism
500
"A widely held view of the Republican administrations of the 1920s is that they represented a return to an older order that had existed before Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson became the nation’s chief executives. Harding and Coolidge especially are seen as latter-day McKinley’s, political mediocrities who peopled their cabinets with routine, conservative party hacks of the kind almost universal in Washington from the end of the Civil War until the early 20th century. In this view, the 1920s politically were an effort to set back the clock."
Considering the answer to the previous question, which of the following groups looked to gain the most from the 1920s Republican policies?
labor unions
farmers
corporations
minorities
corporations
500
The data in the chart would be best used to help support or explain which of the following trends in the U.S. from 1910 to 1930?
a. federally funded improvements in infrastructure
b. over-speculation of the stock market
c. an increasing US business success
d. an increasingly skilled workforce
an increasingly skilled workforce
500
“In 1925 a trial in Tennessee threw into sharp relief the division between traditional values and modern secular culture. John Scopes, a teacher in a Tennessee public school was arrested for violating a state law that prohibited the teaching of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. HIs trial became a national sensation. The proceedings were even carried live on the radio.”
From “Give me Liberty; an American History
The Scopes trial was important because it highlighted the growing tensions between what major groups in American society?
a. Christian fundamentalists and followers of modern science
b. Republicans and Democrats
c. School Teachers and Politicians
d. Rural and Urban communities
Christian fundamentalists and followers of modern science
500
Source: W.E.B.Du Bois, The Crisis, 1922.
The main economic venture of Marcus Garvey was the Black Star Line. This steamship venture was the foundation stone of Garvey’s rise to popularity among Negroes. African migration is a century old and a pretty thoroughly discredited dream. Autonomous African Negro States have been forecast by scores of Negro leaders and writers. But a definite plan to unite Negrodom by a line of steamships was a brilliant suggestion and Garvey’s only original contribution to the race problem. But, asked the critic, can it be done? Has Garvey the business sense, can he raise the capital, can he gather the men?
Which broader principle most likely influenced Garvey’s plan?
a. black supremacy
b. black separatism
c. accommodationism
d. black militancy
Black separatism
500
The 1921 Emergency Quota Act & 1924 National Origins Act were meant to favor immigrants from:
A) Asia
B) Northern Europe
C) Southern Europe
D) Canada and Mexico
B) Northern Europe