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The American Yawp
Chapter 22 – The New Era
1. 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
[A] page 163, paragraph 1, Harding’s attention towards Americans needing to heal from over 100,000 lives lost in the war and 700,000 lives taken from the influenza pandemic. 2. 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
[C] page 164, section II, paragraph 1, Suffering an economic hit from post-war, labor movements had been sidelined losing support from, the public, politicians, resulting in a loss of bargaining powers. 3. 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
[B] page 182, paragraph 1, Through fears of America turning away from its old days, America established more restrictions on immigration while completely disregarding Asian countries. 4. 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
[B] page 165, paragraph 2, Exchanging land to the oil companies in Wyoming, both Fall and Navy Secretary Denby scandalized under the Harding administration to make quick cash.
5. 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
[D] page 166, paragraph 1 President Coolidge’s sights were set on American businesses, however, many women activists still fought to expand their freedoms and equality with men.
6. 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
[A] page 167, paragraph, section III, paragraph 1, Christine Frederick wrote that over 90% of the
average household expenditures was produced from the women population
7. 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
[B] page 168-169, Americans became infatuated with how easy expenditures were becoming readily available, more than 60% of car owners in 1920 were using credit and installments for their new vehicles off of the assembly lines. 8. What theme dominated American popular entertainment in the 1920s?
a. Distrust of government
b. Innovation and exploration
c. Escape
d. Religion and ethics
[C] page 169, section IV, paragraph 1, With the vast change in American society with the ever-
growing industrialization, many Americans dreamed of escaping the faster times. 9. What percent of married women worked outside of the home in the 1920s?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d. 80%
[A] page 175, paragraph 2, With a new developing American society, the age of the New Women began to rise, and almost half of unmarried women worked outside of their homes.
10. 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 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
[C] page 177, paragraph 1, Many women felt that the Victorian woman was a repressed woman, and females should have the right to express their femininity and explore their sexualities. 11. A vibrant homosexual culture developed during the 1920s in which American city?
a. New York
b. Boston
c. Los Angeles
d. San Francisco
[A] page 177, paragraph 2, Although many homosexual Americans were treated as non-equal to
heterosexuals, New York became more open to the concept of homosexuals.
12. 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
[B] page 178, section VI, paragraph 3, Although he did not create the term the “New Negro”, however, he did make it more popular and was a great voice for inspiring the black American servant was no more. 13. 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
[C] page 180, paragraph 3, With tension and mistrust in the political system for black Americans, Garvey began to persuade black Americans to return home rather than taking part in the American political system.
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14. 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
[A] page 183, paragraph 1, The Fundamentals would be the start of a new movement name that was founded on the pamphlet, who would become the Christian Fundamentalis and combat religious liberalism. 15. 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 World War I
d. Creation of a Women’s Auxiliary in Indianapolis, Indiana
[B] page 185, section IX, paragraph 2, Colonel William Simmons takes advantage of the film and lynching of Leo Frank and created another uprising in the Georgia KKK chapter. Were the 1920s a “return to normalcy,” as Warren G. Harding had advocated? Did everyone want to return to the way things were before?
The 1920s return to normalcy came in the form of not living in an America at war, however, society would become completely different in the forms of black American migration to the North which would spark the Harlem Renaissance while creating Harlem as the cultural capital. As well as women having the ability to express themselves and their femininity while changing the norm of women taking on more male dominate jobs. Page 178, section VI. How were the 1920s a decade of contradictions for black Americans, women, and immigrants?
The 1920s were a decade of contradictions for black Americans by the second rising of the KKK in Georgia, although many black Americans escaped the Jim Crow South, however, they were still treated as second class citizens to the white population. Women were able to express themselves like never before and take on the new male-dominated jobs, they were still overpowered by men in careers such as lawyers and physicians and expected to perform at entry-level low paying jobs. Page 176, paragraph 3.