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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The New Era

Multiple Choice


1	Aimee Semple McPherson was someone who:
		A)	clung to older values and methods during a period when much of society was modernizing.
		B)	successfully blended old and new in her religious services.
		C)	embraced the new age for women.
		D)	showed the women's suffrage movement had not ended when women won the right to vote.


2	The U.S. Census in 1920 found that for the first time:
		A)	the birth rate in the United States was rising sharply.
		B)	more than half of the U.S. population lived west of the Mississippi.
		C)	the frontier was closed.
		D)	just over half the population was living in cities.


3	The greatest catalyst for economic growth in the 1920s was:
		A)	railroads.
		B)	the airplane.
		C)	the automobile.
		D)	radio.


4	In his novels Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis:
		A)	celebrated the common folk in small towns and cities.
		B)	criticized small-town life and the average American.
		C)	examined the effects of World War I on American society.
		D)	warned of the spread of radical political ideas.


5	All of the following are true about Marcus Garvey EXCEPT:
		A)	his Universal Negro Improvement Association had at least 500,000 members at its peak.
		B)	born in rural Mississippi, he joined the "Great Migration" northward.
		C)	his message was one of black pride, and he advocated a return of African-Americans to Africa.
		D)	he was convicted of mail fraud.


6	Sacco and Vanzetti became famous in the 1920s as:
		A)	two immigrants sentenced to life in prison for entering the U.S. illegally.
		B)	victims of the revived Ku Klux Klan's focus on Catholics.
		C)	the most notorious bootleggers on the East Coast.
		D)	foreign-born radicals executed for robbery and murder.


7	The immigration legislation of 1921 and 1924:
		A)	ended the free flow of European immigrants.
		B)	made it easier for European immigrants to enter.
		C)	made it easier for southern and eastern Europeans to enter.
		D)	opened up Asian immigration to the United States.


8	Which of the following is NOT true about Prohibition?
		A)	It can best be understood as cultural and class legislation.
		B)	It actually led to an increase in drinking among the working class.
		C)	Enforcement was underfunded and understaffed.
		D)	It enriched gangsters and led to urban violence between bootleggers.


9	In Tennessee in 1925, a young teacher, John T. Scopes, was arrested for:
		A)	attacking the leaders of the local Ku Klux Klan by name.
		B)	reading from the Bible in his classroom.
		C)	teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.
		D)	acknowledging that he was a homosexual.


10	Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon believed that:
		A)	prosperity "trickled down" from rich to poor through investment.
		B)	prosperity "percolated up" by paying higher wages.
		C)	taxes on wealthy Americans should pay for government social programs.
		D)	protective tariffs should be reduced


11	Though he lost the presidential election of 1928, Al Smith:
		A)	proved that the Democratic hold on the Solid South was still intact.
		B)	enjoyed the strong support of those who wanted Prohibition to continue.
		C)	suggested that a new coalition of urban immigrant voters had moved into the Democratic Party.
		D)	actually carried more states than the Republicans.


12	The stock market crash of 1929:
		A)	was the cause of the Great Depression.
		B)	did not have much impact on the American economy.
		C)	lasted for only a few days, then the market returned to its record levels.
		D)	aggravated weaknesses already present in the economy.


13	All of the following helped cause the Great Depression EXCEPT:
		A)	a decline in the purchasing power of American workers.
		B)	unsound banking policies.
		C)	overproduction and excess inventories in key industries.
		D)	low tariffs on foreign-made goods.

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