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| Political and social radicalism arose after World War I because: |
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| postwar culture was entering an era of bewildering change. |
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| The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s: |
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| favored immigrants from northern and western Europe. |
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| The 1924 immigration law: |
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| set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country. |
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| The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on: |
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| "100 percent Americanism" |
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| concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. |
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| As a result of the Scopes trial: |
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| John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution. |
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| By the early 1900s, the Anti-Saloon League: |
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| had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American history. |
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| The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in: |
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| The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "The Jazz Age" by: |
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| blended African and Europe musical traditions. |
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| The novel This Side of Paradise concerned: |
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| modernist student life at Princeton. |
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| Which amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote? |
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| Which of the following statements best describes working women in the 1920s? |
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| The number of employed women rose. |
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| The "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" concerned: |
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| The movement of southern blacks to the North: |
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| was called the "Great Migration" |
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| sought to rediscover black folk culture. |
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| Which of the following did W.E.B. Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey? |
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| "[He] is the most dangerous enemy of the Negro Race... He is either a lunatic or a traitor." |
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| The Universal Negro Improvement Association: |
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| enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. |
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| The culture of modernism was characterized by: |
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| developments in science that challenged perceptions of certainty. |
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| The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to: |
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| deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large. |
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| Modernists in art and literature came to believe that: |
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| the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than reason. |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about: |
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| "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." |
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| The southern literary renaissance came about because: |
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| of the conflict between southern traditions and modern commercialism. |
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| Modernism waned by the end of the 1920s because: |
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| the Great Depression prompted a more traditional perspective in the arts. |
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| wrote This Side of Paradise |
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| wrote Look Homeward, Angel |
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| founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association |
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| defended the teaching of evolution in the Scopes trial |
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| developed principle of uncertainty |
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| promoted civil disobedience in the fight for women's suffrage |
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| Women's Christian Temperance Union... |
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| pressured the government to prohibit alcohol |
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| attacked the blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics |
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| T/F: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization. |
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| T/F: Proponents of Prohibition displayed ethnic and social prejudices in the drive to make America "dry." |
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| T/F: The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee. |
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| T/F: The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America. |
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| T/F: Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture's musical roots. |
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| T/F: Flappers was the slang word for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s. |
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| T/F: Women gained the right to vote in 1916 as World War I began. |
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| T/F: The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination. |
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| T/F: Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg were members of Al Capone's gang in Chicago. |
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| T/F: The culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created, not copied. |
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| T/F: During the 1920s ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques. |
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| T/F: The major American proponents of modernist literature lived in Europe. |
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| T/F: The southern renaissance was characterized by a dying traditional world and the birth of a modern, commercial world inspired by World War I's industrial production. |
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