From The American Pageant by Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey
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| 6199895261 | Responding to continuing upheavals in the postwar world order and to significant social changes that upended traditional American culture and values, most Americans in the 1920's did all of the following EXCEPT | (C) struggle to achieve economic prosperity. | 0 | |
| 6199895262 | How did the business sector use the red scare to its advantage in the 1920's? | (B) It cooperated with federal and state governments to destroy fledgling unions such as the IWW. | 1 | |
| 6199895263 | Which of the following was most important in prompting Americans to support the Immigrant Act of 1924? | (B) A nativist belief that northern Europeans were culturally superior to the waves of eastern and southern Europeans who had arrived in America over the last forty years. | 2 | |
| 6199895264 | Which of the following would a cultural pluralist such as Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, or Louis Brandeis NOT support? | (A) An American melting-pot cultural ideology that advocated eliminating ethnic differences. | 3 | |
| 6199895265 | Which of the following represented a key obstacle to working-class solidarity and union organizing in the US during this period? | (A) Employers' devious use of ethnic tensions and rivalries among workers to thwart union activities and working-class solidarity. | 4 | |
| 6199895266 | All of the following undermined the effective enforcement of prohibition laws against alcohol in America EXCEPT | (E) overwhelming popular opposition to prohibition in the South and West. | 5 | |
| 6199895267 | According to John Dewey, the primary goal of progressive education should be to | (E) educate students for life through active, participatory learning methods. | 6 | |
| 6199895268 | Which of the following was NOT an outcome of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial? | (C) It was a complete legal vindication of a teacher's right to teach evolution in the public schools of Tennessee. | 7 | |
| 6199895269 | How did Americans business in the 1920's attempt to solve the problem of developing enormous universal markets for its mass-produced goods? | (B) American business nurtured the birth and development of consumer advertising. | 8 | |
| 6199895270 | What dark cloud hung over the economic prosperity enjoyed by Americans in the 1920's? | (A) An enormous amount of American consumer debt. | 9 | |
| 6199895271 | All of the following were an outgrowth of the automobile revolution EXCEPT | (B) the increased dependence of women on men. | 10 | |
| 6199895272 | What did the 1920 census reveal about the lives of Americans? | (C) For the first time in the nation's history, more Americans lived in cities than in the countryside. | 11 | |
| 6199895273 | What did many Americans point to in order to justify their new sexual frankness? | (D) The theories of Sigmund Freud. | 12 | |
| 6199895274 | Which socioeconomic group bore the heaviest tax burden in the 1920's as a result of the tax policies of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon? | (A) Middle-income groups. | 13 | |
| 6199900511 | All of the following works of literature examined the values of 1920s America EXCEPT | (D) The Clansman | 14 | |
| 6199908779 | How did the cultural liberation of the 1920s extend to African Americans, especially in northern cities? | (B) Marcus Garvey created the United Negro Improvement Association | 15 |
