APUSH Ch. 31

1. The red scare of 1919-1920 was provoked by a) the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities b) the strict enforcement of prohibition laws c) evolutionary science’s challenge to the biblical story of the Creation d) the public’s association of labor violence with its fear of revolution e) the threat created by the Communist Revolution in Russia

d

2. Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except a) denounce ‘radical’ foreign ideas b) condemn ‘un-American’ life-styles c) enter a decade of economic difficulties d) shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries e) restrict immigration

c

3. Businesspeople used the red scare to a) establish closed shops throughout the nation b) break the backs of fledgling unions c) break the railroad strike of 1919 d) secure passage of laws making unions illegal e) refuse to hire Communists

b

4. The most tenacious pursuer of ‘radical’ elements during the red scare was a) Frederick W. Taylor b) William Jennings Bryan c) J. Edgar Hoover d) F. Scott Fitzgerald e) A. Mitchell Palmer

e

5. The post-World War Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except a) fundamentalist religion b) opposition to birth control c) opposition to prohibition d) repression of pacifists e) anti-Catholicism

c

6. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against a) capitalism b) new immigration laws passed in 1924 c) the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850s d) race riots e) the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture

e

7. Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of a) increased migration of blacks in the North b) the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans c) a desire to rid the country of the quota system d) the desire to halt immigration from Latin America e) growing concern about urban overcrowding and crime

b

8. The Immigration Act of 1924 was formulated to impose immigration quotas based on a) economic skills b) literacy c) religious beliefs d) nationality e) family status

d

9. Generally, the immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s tended to discriminate against a) Canadians b) Northern and western Europeans c) Latin Americans d) Jews e) southern and eastern Europeans

e

10. To achieve class and political solidarity, immigrant workers primarily had to overcome a) ethnic diversity b) the lack of a reform impulse in America c) the lack of sufficient funds to form a union d) the Immigration Act of 1924 e) their loyalty to their homelands

a

11. Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from a) women b) eastern city dwellers c) westerners d) southerners e) older people

b

12. The first Polish immigrants to come to America arrived a) in the late 19th century b) during the Revolutionary War c) during the Great Depression d) at Jamestown in 1608 e) as Civil War volunteers

d

13. Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the following sources except a) agents from U.S. railroads b) letter from friend and relatives c) agents from steamship lines d) Catholic missionaries e) Polish-American businesspeople

d

14. Most Americans assumed that prohibition a) would be permanent b) would soon be overturned c) could never be enforced in the South d) would be a total failure e) was unworkable in the cities

a

15. The most spectacular example of lawlessness in the 1920s was a) New York City b) New Orleans c) Brooklyn d) Chicago e) Las Vegas

d

16. John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of _________________." a) the research university b) progressive education c) evolutionary science d) modern psychoanalysis e) Hegelian philosophy

b

7. According to John Dewey, a teacher’s primary goal is to a) reduce permissiveness in the classroom b) emphasize the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic c) educate a student for life d) teach the biblical theory of Creation e) develop a sense of history

c

18. Of the following, the one least related to the other four is a) John T. Scopes b) Clarence Darrow c) Frederick W. Taylor d) William Jennings Bryan e) the Southern Baptist Church

c

19. The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of a) progressive education b) schools’ efforts to create socially useful adults c) teachers’ membership in the Ku Klux Klan d) teaching evolution in public schools e) prayer in the public schools

d

20. After the Scopes "Monkey Trial," a) fundamentalism disappeared outside the rural South b) John Scopes was sentenced to serve time in jail c) Christians found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the revelations of religion with modern science d) the gap between theology and biology began to close e) fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life

e

21. All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920a possible except a) government stimulation of the economy b) rapid expansion of capital c) increased productivity of workers d) perfection of assembly-line production e) advertising and credit buying

a

22. The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920 involved a) increasing the level of production b) developing a market of people to buy their products c) reducing the level of government involvement in business d) keeping labor unrest to a minimum e) finding a skilled labor force

b

23. Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton a) was a deeply religious man b) respected Christ’s image of self-sacrifice c) thought Christ taught the proper use of money d) felt that Christ supported capitalism e) believed that Christ was the best advertising man of all time

e

24. The prosperity that developed in the 1920s helped a) to accumulate a cloud of debt b) to reduce buying on credit c) labor unions to gain strength d) enable the railroads to make more profits e) close the gap between rich and poor

a

25. The central character in Bruce Barton’s The Man Nobody Knows was a) Charles Lindbergh b) Henry Ford c) Jesus Christ d) Babe Ruth e) Abraham Lincoln

c

26. Henry Ford’s contribution to the automobile industry was a) installment credit buying of cars b) the internal combustion engine c) an enormous variety of automobile models with varied colors and styles d) design changes that improved speed e) relatively cheap automobiles

e

27. Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best know for his a) development of the gasoline engine b) thoughts on Darwinian evolution c) efforts to clean up polluted cities d) efforts to promote efficiency by eliminated wasted motions e) concern for worker safety

d

28. Before the automobile, the ________________ industry dominated the American economy. a) railroad b) farming c) oil d) steel e) electricity

d

29. The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except a) the consolidation of schools b) the increased dependence of women on men c) the spread of suburbs d) a loss of population in less attractive states e) altered youthful sexual behavior

b

30. One complaint lodged by the U.S. Immigration Commission against Polish immigrants was that a) they took skilled jobs from Americans b) too many returned to their homeland c) they sent too much money home d) they wrote home with too many negative stories about America e) they were slow to learn English

c

31. The first "talkie" motion picture was a) The Great Train Robbery b) The Birth of a Nation c) The Wizard of Oz d) Gone with the Wind e) The Jazz Singer

e

32. With the advent of radio and motion pictures, a) many people believed that popular tastes were elevated b) American culture became more parochial c) American regional accents disappeared d) the emergence of a working-class political coalition was halted e) much of the rich diversity of immigrant culture was lost

e

33. Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures a) were less popular than had been anticipated b) contributed to the standardization of American life c) had little impact on traditional life-styles and values d) were for the most part too expensive for ordinary working families e) strengthened American family life

b

34. The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most a) men worked in manufacturing b) adult women were employed outside the home c) Americans lived in cities d) Americans lived in the trans-Mississippi West e) Families had fewer than four children

c

35. Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of a) abortion rights b) woman suffrage c) birth control d) free lovee) the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

c

36. Job opportunities for women in the 1920s a) expanded dramatically b) offered higher-paying positions than before c) were plentiful in Hollywood and radio d) existed mainly in the area of education e) tended to cluster in a few low-paying fields

e

37. To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans cited a) increased consumption of alcohol b) the decline of fundamentalism c) the development of the National Women’s party d) the theories of Sigmund Freud e) the influence of explicit movies

d

38. Jazz music was developed by a) Latinos b) Caribbean immigrants c) Caucasian impresarios d) American teenagers e) American blacks

e

39. Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, is known for all of the following except a) promoting the resettlement of American blacks in Africa b) establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African-Americans c) cultivating feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks d) being sent to prison after a conviction for fraud e) promoting black-owned businesses

b

40. Match each literary figure with the correct work. A. Earnest Hemingway B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Sinclair Lewis D. William Faulkner 1. The Sun Also Rises 2. Main Street 3. The Sound and the Fury 4. The Great Gatsby a) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1 b) A-1, B-3, C-2, D-4 c) A-2, B-1, C-3, D-4 d) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3 e) A-4, B-3, C-1, D-2

d

41. Buying stock "on margin" meant a) purchasing only a few shares b) purchasing inexpensive stock c) purchasing little-known stock d) purchasing risky stock e) making only a small down payment

e

42. During Andrew Mellon’s long tenure as secretary of the treasury, his policies a) raised taxes b) lowered the national debt c) provided substantial government regulation of the stock market d) discouraged capital investment e) helped equalize personal incomes

b

43. As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the tax burden on the a) middle-income groups b) wealthy c) lower class d) business community e) estate taxes

a