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| Which statement best describes the mood of Americans during the 1920s? | They hoped for a return to normal life after World War I. |
| Which statement best describes the views of the presidents from 1920 to 1932? | They favored high tariffs to protect U.S. business interests. |
| Immigration quotas that limited European immigrants were approved under President | Harding. |
| President Coolidge’s policy in Latin America continued | Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy. |
| President Hoover believed that the government should | establish guidelines for businesses to follow voluntarily. |
| At first, President Hoover thought that the situation caused by the stock market crash in 1929 was a | temporary problem that business could solve. |
| The reason for the Palmer raids was fear of | a communist plot to overthrow the government. |
| During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan | attacked African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics. |
| Factory owners often blamed strikes on | workers who were “Reds” or communists. |
| Marcus Garvey was an African-American leader who | encouraged African Americans to return to Africa. |
| The ACLU is a group that was founded to | defend the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. |
| The NAACP was founded | early in the twentieth century to protest racial violence against African Americans. |
| The Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League began a strong movement for prohibition | after the Civil War, in the late 1800s. |
| The strongest support for Prohibition was generally in | rural areas, especially in the South and West. |
| The Volstead Act was passed in 1919 to | enforce the Eighteenth Amendment. |
| During the 1920s, “speakeasies” were popular and “bootleggers” powerful because | many people did not agree with Prohibition. |
| During the Great Depression, people argued that Prohibition | kept people out of work. |
| Prohibition ended with the Twenty- first Amendment in | 1933, during the Great Depression. |
| Based on the map, which state would be most likely to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment? | New York |
| Which statement best describes suffrage between 1913 and 1920? | Most states gave women at least partial suffrage. |
| In 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association | formed a national strategy to pass woman suffrage. |
| Most women who worked outside of the home in the late 1800s and early 1900s did so because | of economic need. |
| Which factor was most important in the development of the Harlem Renaissance? | the promotion of black pride by African-American leaders |
| The Harlem Renaissance lasted from about | 1920 until the Great Depression (early 1930s). |
| How did the Harlem Renaissance affect white society? | Whites began to appreciate African- American writers and artists. |
| Zora Neale Hurston called poor Southern blacks with little schooling “the greatest cultural wealth of the continent.” Her outlook led her to write | stories that celebrated women searching for their identity. |
| Which type of artistic expression brought most white people to Harlem? | “jazz” music shows |
| Writers during the Harlem Renaissance | focused on African-American experiences. |
| Which statement describes life for most Americans during the 1920s? | They worked fewer hours than previously and had more money to spend. |
| During World War I, radios were | restricted to military purposes. |
| Radio stations were first intended to | increase radio sales for manufacturers. |
| Why were large radio networks like NBC and CBS formed? | to link stations across the country to allow for common programming |
| How did people react to “talkies?” | Movie attendance doubled in only three years. |
| How did radio and movies help establish a national popular culture? | People in different areas and living conditions could share common entertainment. |
| How did mass production techniques change industry in the early 1900s? | They allowed industry to produce more goods more quickly. |
| What was the main reason that people began to live farther from the center of cities in the early 1900s? | They could travel to work and other services more easily. |
| Which statement best describes the growth in auto sales during the early 1900s? | Sales grew very quickly once cars were mass produced. |
| Which statement describes how electricity affected industry in the early 1900s? | Factories used electricity to power their machines and produce more goods. |
| Which statement best describes urban sprawl? | the growth of cities away from their centers |
| How had the automobile affected the American landscape by 1930? | Paved auto roads connected most major American cities. |
