The American Yawp Ch.22 The New Era

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. The American Yawp Ch.22 The New Era Quiz Warren G. Harding won office by campaigning on which theme? a. A return to normalcy b. An era of innovation c. Growing civil society d. Extending American liberty Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s? a. There was little change in membership b. Unions gained bargaining power through assistance from the courts and government regulation c. Membership declined d. Membership grew The National Origins Act restricted the number of immigrants from any given country to ____ percent of the number of current Americans from that country a. One b. Two c. Five d. Ten The Teapot Dome Scandal sent several prominent members of the Harding administration to jail. The scandal involved the leasing of government land to what group? a. Railroad companies b. Oil companies c. Agribusiness d. Cattle ranchers What was the primary purpose of the failed Equal Rights Amendment? a. Require the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment b. Give women the right to vote c. Prosecute lynchings d. Eliminate all legal distinctions based on sex Which group accounted for 90% of household expenditures in 1920s homes? a. Women. b. Men. c. Teenagers. d. None of these groups accounted for that high of a percentage. How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures? a. Expenditures decreased b. Expenditures increased c. There was no significant change in expenditures d. Consumer credit became less available in the 1920s What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s? a. Distrust of government 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. b. Innovation and exploration c. Escape d. Religion and ethics What percent of married women worked outside of the home in the 1920s? a. 10% b. 25% c. 50% d. 80% How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s? a. Religious change encouraged the notion that sex was intended solely for procreation b. Sex became less of a cultural taboo, but only when confined to marriage. Premarital sex actually declined during the era c. Many college-educated white women rebelled against < Victorian= notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex d. There were no significant cultural changes in how Americans thought about and experienced sex A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city? a. New York b. Boston c. Los Angeles d. San Francisco One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Renaissance wrote that < we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation.= Who was this intellectual? a. Langston Hughes b. Alain Locke c. W.E.B. DuBois d. Zora Neale Hurston Marcus Garvey created a movement encouraging black Americans to migrate to Africa. To do this he created which of the following? a. A new immigration-friendly government in Ghana b. A church that spread throughout the United States and the Caribbean c. A shipping company called the Black Star Line d. A widely circulated newspaper called The Crisis that promulgated his ideas Fundamentalist Christianity coalesced around a series of ideas best articulated in a pamphlet commissioned by oil barons Lyman and Milton Stewart. What is the name of this pamphlet? a. The Fundamentals b. The Crisis c. The Social Gospel d. In His Steps Two events are widely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the release of the film The Birth of the Nation. What was the second? a. Death of Colonel William Joseph Simmons b. Lynching of Leo Frank c. End of the World War I d. Creation of a Women’s Auxiliary in Indianapolis, Indiana