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  1. Return to Of The People 5e, Volume 2 Student Resources

Chapter 21 Quiz

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. All of the following refer to Mary Pickford except that she

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. The innovation of Henry Ford laid in his emphasis on

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. The first air flight in 1903

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. All of the following refer to agriculture in the 1920s except

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. The rapid rise of suburbs around cities such as Detroit and Los Angeles demonstrated

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. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes Americans' attitudes and actions during the 1920s?

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. Which of the following did not emerge during the 1920s?

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. Charles A. Lindbergh flew nonstop in 1927 from

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. Despite the widespread prosperity and positivism of the 1920s, many Americans

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. All of the following refer to the fundamentalism of the 1920s except

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. The rejuvenated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s

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. The "New Negro"

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. In the election of 1920, the Republican presidential candidate was _______ and the Democratic candidate was _______.

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. The Kellogg-Briand Pact sought to outlaw

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. "American Landscape: The Tulsa Race Massacre" demonstrates which of the following continuities in United States history?

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. What was J. Walter Thompson's company best known for?

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. In the early twentieth century, what was the Supreme Court's attitude towards labor unions?

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. What did the Immigration Act of 1921 do?

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. How did Mexican immigrants respond to segregation and racism?

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. The political "New Era" of the 1920s was especially dependent on

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. The Harlem Renaissance was

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. All of the following refer to consumerism in the 1920s except

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. _______ was an early and well-known promoter of sex education and contraceptives, which were largely illegal in the 1910s. She coined the term "birth control."

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. Despite the nation's general prosperity, economic advances involved costs to organized labor.

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. Businesspeople during the 1920s made use of new technologies and other advancements to increase productivity.

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. Despite the increase in the number of automobiles after 1921, textiles and railroads continued to dominate the national economy during the following decade.

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. American farmers did not enjoy the economic prosperity of the 1920s.

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. One thing that helped stimulate the American economy and Americans' buying power during the 1920s was installment purchasing.

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. The map shows the distribution of votes by state for the three presidential candidates in 1928: Hoover, Republican; Smith, Democratic; Thomas Socialist. Hoover won 444 electoral votes, or 82 percent, and 21, 391,993 popular votes, or 58 percent from the following states: California, 13; Oregon, 5; Washington, 7; Idaho,4; Nevada, 3; Montana, 4; Wyoming, 3; Utah, 4; Arizona, 3; Colarado,6; New Mexico, 3; North Dakota, 5; South Dakota, 5; Nebraska, 8; Kansas, 10; Oklahoma, 10; Texas, 20; Minnesota, 12; Iowa, 13; Missouri, 18; Wisconsin, 13; Illinois, 29; Michigan, 15; Indiana, 15; Ohio, 24; Kentucky, 13; Tennessee, 12; Florida, 6; Maine, 6; New Hampshire, 4; Vermont, 4; New York, 45; Pennsylvania, 38; West Virginia, 8; Virginia, 12; North Carolina, 12; Connecticut, 7; New Jersey, 14; Delaware, 3; Maryland, 8. Smith won 87 electoral votes, or 17 percent, and 15,016,169 popular votes, or 41 percent from the following states: Louisiana, 10; Arkansas, 9; Mississippi, 10; Alabama, 12; Georgia, 14; South Carolina, 9. Thomas Socialist won 267,835 popular votes or 1 percent. Minor parties won 62,890 popular votes or minus.
Map 21-1: The Election of 1928. The map indicates the popularity of the Republican Party during the 1920s.

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. American workers enjoyed higher wages and an increase in leisure time in the 1920s.

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