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Which of the following industries did not undergo tremendous expansion during the New Era? |
| | A) | Automobiles |
| | B) | Radio |
| | C) | Construction |
| | D) | Commercial Aviation |
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Who created a modern administrative system at General Motors, which became adopted by many other corporations and allowed for more corporate expansion? |
| | A) | William Durant |
| | B) | Henry Ford |
| | C) | Alfred Sloan |
| | D) | William Green |
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Which of the following was not an element of "welfare capitalism"? |
| | A) | Shorter workweeks and paid vacations |
| | B) | Recognition of unions in exchange for "No-Strike" pledges |
| | C) | Creation of "workers' councils" and shop committees |
| | D) | Retirement pensions |
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Who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a vigorous union representing a virtually all-black work force? |
| | A) | William Green |
| | B) | Bruce Barton |
| | C) | Philip Randolph |
| | D) | Harry Emerson Fosdick |
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What was the "American Plan"? |
| | A) | Restriction of immigration based on census percentages |
| | B) | The adoption of "associational" codes among industries |
| | C) | The protection of the (anti-union) open shop |
| | D) | The protection of the (pro-union) closed shop |
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Which piece of New Era legislation expressed farmers' demand for "parity"? |
| | A) | The McNary-Haugen Bill |
| | B) | The Sheppard-Towner Bill |
| | C) | The Fordney-McCumber Bill |
| | D) | The Hawley-Smoot Bill |
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Who wrote The Man Nobody Knows, the successful book which portrayed Jesus Christ as a "super salesman"? |
| | A) | Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| | B) | Bruce Barton |
| | C) | John T. Scopes |
| | D) | Billy Sunday |
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What was the first feature-length "talkie"? |
| | A) | Birth of a Nation |
| | B) | Modern Times |
| | C) | It Happened One Night |
| | D) | The Jazz Singer |
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What was the first commercial radio station in America? |
| | A) | WABC in Chicago |
| | B) | KDKA in Pittsburgh |
| | C) | WNYC in New York City |
| | D) | KNBC in Cleveland |
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Who was the pastor of Riverside Church in New York and the most influential spokesman for liberal Protestantism in the 1920s? |
| | A) | Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| | B) | Billy Sunday |
| | C) | Robert Lynd |
| | D) | H.L. Mencken |
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Which of the following was not a tenet of "companionate marriage"? |
| | A) | Women should devote more attention to cosmetics and clothing. |
| | B) | Women should share increasingly in her husband's social life. |
| | C) | Women should abstain from sex other than for procreation. |
| | D) | Women should be wary of children interfering with the marital relationship. |
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Which of the following was a pioneer of the American birth-control movement? |
| | A) | John B. Watson |
| | B) | Alice Paul |
| | C) | Lila Wallace |
| | D) | Margaret Sanger |
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Which of the following is not true of the "flapper"? |
| | A) | Flappers were mostly upper-class women, who could afford the lifestyle. |
| | B) | Flappers would venture alone to clubs and dance halls in search of excitement and companionship. |
| | C) | Flappers rejected the rigid "respectability" of the Victorian era. |
| | D) | Flappers were encouraged by the wide popularity of Freudian ideas in the 1920s. |
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What did the 1921 Sheppard-Towner Act do? |
| | A) | It increased federal funding of state universities and public schools. |
| | B) | It mandated that all publicly-funded colleges and universities admit women. |
| | C) | It provided federal funding to state prenatal and child healthcare programs. |
| | D) | It forced the American Medical Association and other professional organizations to admit more women. |
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What percentage of college-age Americans attended college by 1930? |
| | A) | 5% |
| | B) | 10% |
| | C) | 20% |
| | D) | 40% |
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Which of the following was not one of the most widely admired heroes of the New Era? |
| | A) | Thomas Edison |
| | B) | Henry Ford |
| | C) | Charles Lindbergh |
| | D) | Henry David Thoreau |
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Which of the following was not generally part of the writings of the Lost Generation? |
| | A) | World War I had been a sham and a fraud. |
| | B) | American culture was obsessed with materialism and consumerism. |
| | C) | To change America, art must be used to reinvigorate politics. |
| | D) | Creating art was the only means of fulfillment in a rotten society. |
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Which of the following savaged American society and democracy in his columns in the Smart Set and the American Mercury? |
| | A) | John Dos Passos |
| | B) | H.L. Mencken |
| | C) | Ezra Pound |
| | D) | William Borah |
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Which author of Main Street and Arrowsmith gave New Era businessmen an enduring nickname with the novel Babbitt? |
| | A) | Sinclair Lewis |
| | B) | Eugene O'Neill |
| | C) | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | D) | Thomas Wolfe |
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Who assembled a notable collection of black writings in 1925 as The New Negro, helping to announce the Harlem Renaissance to the rest of the world? |
| | A) | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| | B) | Alain Locke |
| | C) | Robert Penn Warren |
| | D) | Fletcher Henderson |
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Which of the following is not true of Prohibition? |
| | A) | It helped gangsters like Al Capone build criminal empires. |
| | B) | It was mainly supported by provincial, largely rural Protestants. |
| | C) | It soon lost the support of most middle-class progressives. |
| | D) | It did not substantially reduce drinking in America. |
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Which of the following was not a provision of the National Origins Act? |
| | A) | It banned immigration from Japan. |
| | B) | It banned immigration from China. |
| | C) | It reduced the quota of European immigrants from 3 percent to 2 percent of that immigrant group's population in a given year. |
| | D) | It based the quota on the 1890 census. |
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What state had the largest Ku Klux Klan membership during the 1920s? |
| | A) | Georgia |
| | B) | South Carolina |
| | C) | Indiana |
| | D) | Mississippi |
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What was the outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Ohio? |
| | A) | John Scopes was found innocent. |
| | B) | John Scopes was found guilty. |
| | C) | The judge threw out the case. |
| | D) | John Scopes was found guilty, but the judge overturned the verdict. |
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Who served as Secretary of Commerce during the Harding and Coolidge administrations, from where he promoted the concept of business "associationalism"? |
| | A) | Herbert Hoover |
| | B) | Andrew Mellon |
| | C) | William McAdoo |
| | D) | Al Smith |
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