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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Henry Mencken

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Henry Ford

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Which of the following statements accurately describe the automobile in the 1920s?


A) It was still just a plaything of the rich.
B) It lost much of its potential market as people turned to the new forms of mass transit available.
C) It was produced mostly for the overseas market since Americans could not afford the high-priced American models.
D) It became common in most American socioeconomic groups, as cheap Japanese models flooded the market.
E) It saw a big increase in popularity, with the number of vehicle registrations jumping dramatically.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Washington Naval Arms Conference

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What political and social ideas shaped the administrations of Presidents Harding and Coolidge?

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The administrations of Presidents Hardin...

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In the early 1920s religious fundamentalists focused especially on which of the following issues?


A) Eradicating slum conditions in cities
B) The sexual revolution
C) The theory of evolution
D) Equal rights for women
E) Restricting the immigration of Catholics and Jews

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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While writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis criticized what they saw as American hypocrisy in the 1920s, the truth was


A) that they hated American culture and the changes they saw.
B) they thought the country was beyond reform.
C) they were diehard Americans at heart who wanted to create a more authentic culture.
D) they were bitter about the impact of mass printing on sales of their books.
E) All of these choices

F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Prohibition

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Courting/Dating

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Aimee Semple McPherson

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Flapper

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What economic innovations came in the 1920s, and what was their effect on different social groups?

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How did mass culture in the 1920s thwart full gender equality?


A) It enabled opponents of feminism to launch widespread advertising campaigns.
B) It encouraged women to equate freedom with choosing the glamorous fashions and styles found in advertisements and magazines.
C) It provided fun, affordable entertainment that distracted women from pursuing the educational opportunities that would lead to equality.
D) It celebrated marriage as the source of true happiness and potential equality.
E) All of these choices

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Credit

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Harlem Renaissance

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Which statement best describes the post-World War I American attitude toward businessmen?


A) Business values saturated American culture.
B) Americans considered corporate leaders to be "robber barons."
C) There was a growing hostility to the growth of the "military-industrial complex."
D) Postwar America held businessmen in contempt as war profiteers.
E) Most Americans blamed corporate America for the post-war depression.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

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What was the social philosophy of Herbert Hoover, as expounded in his book American Individualism ?


A) Big business was the answer to America's problems.
B) He saw unfettered competition as the life force of capitalism.
C) He advocated a cooperative, socially responsible economic order shaped by the voluntary action of capitalist leaders.
D) He supported direct government intervention in the economy.
E) He argued in favor of higher wages and higher personal income taxes.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Discuss how Al Smith and Herbert Hoover personified the social and cultural divisions of the 1920s. What were the important issues of the 1928 election? What parts of the electorate supported Smith and what parts supported Hoover? Why were the divisions in support significant?

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Which of the following statements concerning the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is not true?


A) The Klan was made up of ordinary Americans.
B) The Klan targeted blacks, Catholics, Jews and women violating sexual taboos.
C) The Klan dropped the elaborate rituals, titles, and costumes of the Reconstruction era in order to attract a mass membership.
D) Estimates of Klan membership in the 1920s range as high as 5 million Americans.
E) It promised to restore the nation's lost racial, ethnic, religious, and moral purity.

F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

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Discuss the standardization of mass culture in the 1920s, giving examples from magazines, radio, movies, music, and sports. How did the new interest in leisure reflect people's feelings about their jobs? What did the new idolization of celebrities signify about American society?

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