Multiple Choice Chapter 22 Self-Quiz 1

. At the same time that many Americans tried to isolate the country from the rest of the world,

American business became more international than ever before.

fewer and fewer people around the world bought American goods.

American movies became less and less popular overseas.

fewer American businesses wanted to engage in the export trade.

. Why did Americans increasingly have to buy their radio sets on credit during the 1920s?

Radios became increasingly elaborate and therefore more expensive.

Americans' real wages declined, making it hard to afford radios.

Credit was so readily available that it made little sense buy radios with cash.

More and more Americans bought radios in bulk to sell them at excessive prices to rural folks.

. Who was the "It Girl" of the 1920s?

Mary Pickford

Clara Bow

Mae West

Greta Garbo

. What prompted protests against the United States in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires in 1927?

The U.S. intervention in German reparations payments to the Allies.

The unauthorized transatlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.

The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

The criminalization of teaching evolution in the "monkey" trial.

. Why did whites seek out New York City's Harlem neighborhood in the 1920s?

to find cheap apartments

to buy cocaine

to visit jazz clubs

to harass African Americans

. During the 1920s, Harlem proved a fertile ground for

Pan-Africanism.

black supremacy.

communism.

fascism.

. Mexican Americans built their distinctive identities with all the following, EXCEPT by

building Catholic churches.

forming political associations.

sending their children to school.

reproducing familiar peasant traditions.

. New means of communication during the 1920s hastened

the spread of a national culture.

the spread of diseases.

the advance of civil rights.

the cause of public education.

. What prompted Charles Lindbergh's popularity to suffer in the late 1930s?

He supported General Franco in the Spanish Civil War.

He defended the Japanese invasion of China.

He expressed sympathy with Nazi Germany.

He campaigned for America's entry into World War II.

. What distinguished modernists from fundamentalists?

Modernists believed that God was dead.

Modernists believed that Catholics were inferior.

Modernists believed Christians should respond positively to new knowledge.

Modernists believed social change was part of Manifest Destiny.

. Who defended John Scopes in the "Monkey Trial" of 1925?

William Jennings Bryan

Clarence Darrow

Aimee Semple McPherson

Billy Sunday

. What did Republican President Herbert Hoover call Prohibition?

"the white man's burden"

"a raw deal for the American people"

"a new morning in America"

"a noble experiment"

. Which of the following best characterizes the Democratic presidential candidate of 1924, John W. Davis?

a Wilsonian idealist

a Catholic northeastern urbanite

a southern segregationist

a compromise candidate and Wall Street lawyer

. The Kellogg Briand Pact was meant to

rein in the excesses of the global financial system.

make the use of war as an instrument of foreign policy illegal.

improve the German economy.

expand American dominance over radio.

. The last American forces withdrew from Haiti in

1917.

1927.

1930.

1934.

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