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Multiple Choice Chapter 22 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 22.2
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How did GM chairman Alfred P. Sloan attack Ford's dominant market position in the 1920s?
He made cars cheap and affordable.
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He produced cars on assembly lines.
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He paid his workers close to five dollars a day.
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He introduced new models every year.
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The allocation of immigration slots in the National Origins Act of 1924 favored which of the following nations?
China
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Russia
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Germany
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India
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The only group that benefited from 1924 immigration restrictions were
Mexicans.
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Japanese.
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Canadians.
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Irish.
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Which of the following would have been the least likely target of the 1920s KKK in the United States?
a bootlegger
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an Irish-Catholic immigrant
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a German Jew
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an Anglo-American industrialist
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Which of the following helps explain the popularity of jazz in Europe during the 1920s?
Black soldiers first introduced jazz to France during World War I.
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French musicians had developed their own form of jazz in the 1890s.
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American radio stations played jazz aggressively in European countries.
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Records of American music had long been a major export to European countries.
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Which of the following was NOT a sport celebrity of the 1920s?
William Tilden
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Bobby Jones
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Jack Dempsey
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Cassius Clay
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How did Hollywood movies portray the work of women in the corporate world?
as a rare opportunity to rise to a leadership position
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as a hilarious misplacement of feminine talents
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as a temporary stop on the way toward marriage and home
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as the natural work environment for American women
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Aimee Semple McPherson advocated all the following EXCEPT:
prohibition.
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tighter controls on immigration.
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an equal rights amendment.
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charity for the poor and needy.
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What did H. L. Mencken think of William Jennings Bryan?
Mencken admired Bryan's passion.
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Mencken jealously eyed Bryan's popularity.
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Mencken considered Bryan small-minded and ignorant.
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Mencken feared Bryan's spiritual and political power.
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The Democratic challenger to Republican candidate Warren G. Harding in the 1920 presidential election was
Woodrow Wilson.
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Al Smith.
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James M. Cox.
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Herbert Hoover.
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Why did Warren G. Harding's interior secretary Albert Fall spend one year in prison?
He got caught violating the new Prohibition laws.
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He was convicted of sexual assault and harassment.
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He had openly criticized the war during the Wilson administration.
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He was caught accepting bribes in what became the Teapot Dome scandal.
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The most significant result of Germany's economic collapse in 1923 was
a rise in long-term unemployment.
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deflation.
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hyper-inflation.
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a positive balance of trade.
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Before Anastazio Somoza began his 45-year-long dictatorship in the Central American country of Nicaragua he had served as
the commander of the U.S.-trained National Guard.
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a nation's chief justice.
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the leader of the opposition party.
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the bishop of the Catholic church in Nicaragua.
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930
eased the pain of the Great Depression briefly.
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restored international trade to pre-Depression levels.
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failed to protect the gold standard from erosion.
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made international recovery even harder to accomplish.
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Whereas Secretary of State Frank Kellogg offered France an agreement to outlaw war, his French counterpart Aristide Briand had hoped for
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the forgiveness of wartime debts.
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access to American weapons technologies.
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military support in Indochina.
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