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31 American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" 1919-1929

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  1. 1Responding to continuing upheavals in the postwar world order and to significant social changes that up-ended traditional American culture and values, most Americans in the 1920's did all of the following EXCEPT
    1. Acondemn un-American lifestyles
    2. Bstruggle to achieve economic prosperity
    3. Cshun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries
    4. Dsupport severe restrictions on immigration
  2. 2The "red scare" of early 1920s was set up by:
    1. Athe Sacco-Vanzetti case
    2. Bthe rise of Radical Industrial Workers of the World
    3. Cthe Bolshevik revolution in Russia
    4. Dan influx of radical immigrants
  3. 3How did the business sector use the red scare to its advantage in the 1920s?
    1. AIt cooperated with Federal and State Governments to destroy fledgling unions such as the IWW
    2. BIt generally accepted the rights of the unions to organize and collectively bargain in order to gain labor peace
    3. CIt secured passage of a federal law making most union-organizing activity illegal
    4. DBusiness people refused to hire any socialists, communists, or other workers advocating radical ideologies
  4. 4Besides attacking minorities like Catholics, Blacks, and Jews, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s opposed contemporary cultural and social changes such as:
    1. AEvolution and Birth Control
    2. BProhibition and Higher Education
    3. CAutomobiles and Airplanes
    4. DPatriotism and Immigration Restriction
  5. 5The quota system established for immigration in 1920s was based partly on the idea that:
    1. AAmerica could accept the refugees created by war and revolution in Europe
    2. BImmigrants from Northern and Western Europe were superior to those from Southern and Eastern Europe
    3. CImmigration from Europe would be largely replaced by immigration from Asia
    4. DPriority in immigration would be based on family relations, profession, and education
  6. 6Which of the following was most important in prompting Americans to support the Immigration Act of 1924?
    1. AIncreased migration of blacks to the North
    2. BA nativist belief that northern Europeans were culturally superior to the waves of Eastern and Southern Europeans who had arrived in America over the last forty years
    3. CA desire to abolish the quota system in the United States
    4. DA desire to halt immigration from Latin America
  7. 7The separation of many American ethnic groups into separate neighborhood with their own distinct institutions, cultures, and values meant that:
    1. AEnglish was no longer the dominant language in U.S.
    2. Bthe U.S. was intolerant of ethnic differences
    3. CCatholics and Jews had a political base from which to gain the presidency
    4. Dit was almost impossible to organize the American working class across ethnic and religious lives
  8. 8Which of the following would a cultural pluralist such as Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, or Louis Brandeis NOT support
    1. AAn American melting-pot cultural ideology that advocated eliminating ethnic differences
    2. BTighter legal restrictions on immigration from all parts of Europe
    3. CGreater cross-fertilization among all immigrants to promote a cosmopolitan interchange of customs, cultural ideas, and traditions
    4. DPermitting immigrants to celebrate their respective cultural and religious holidays publicly in the United States
  9. 9One clear result of prohibition was:
    1. Aa rise in criminal organizations that supplied illegal liquor
    2. Ban improvement in family relations and the general moral tone of the society
    3. Ca turn from alcohol to other forms of substance abuse
    4. Dthe rise of voluntary self-help organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous
  10. 10Which of the following represented a key obstacle to working class solidarity and union organizing in the United States during this period?
    1. AEmployers' devious use of ethnic tensions and rivalries among workers to thwart union activities and working-class solidarity
    2. BThe absence of a progressive reform impulse in America
    3. CThe growing influence of communists and other radicals in the labor movement
    4. DThe general satisfaction of most workers with the wages, benefits, and working conditions provided by their employers

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American Pageant Chapter 31
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