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"The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the ...quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her powerful good, and endanger her very existence.  Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come, as in the years that have gone.  Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind."

                                                                                                                                                                        Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, 1919

Why did Senator Lodge express this opinion about the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer
  • A

    He wanted to prevent the spread of the global flu epidemic. 

  • B

    He wanted to protect secret U.S. nuclear technology. 

  • C

    He wanted the United States to join an international league.

  • D

    He wanted to protect U.S. sovereignty in international relations. 

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It was during the First World War that a silent pilgrimage took its first steps within the borders of this country...It would not end until the 1970s...Over the course of six decades, some six million black southerners left the land of their forefathers and fanned out across the country for an uncertain existence in nearly every other corner of America... Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, 2010

What was a primary reason for the demographic shift described in this excerpt? 

Answer
  • F

    Increased demand for sharecroppers in the North

  • G

    Limited economic opportunities for African Americans in the South 

  • H

    Increased availability of manufactured goods in the North

  • J

    A lack of educational institutions for African Americans in the South

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The graph shows the number of cars sold in the United States (in the millions) between 1910-1930

Which reason BEST explains the change in the number of cars sold between 1910-1925?

Answer
  • A

    Cars became more available because of the passage of antitrust laws.

  • B

    Cars became more affordable because of the removal of wartime price controls. 

  • C

    Cars became more available because of the removal of tariffs after a global conflict. 

  • D

    Cars became more affordable because of the introduction of the assembly line. 

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What was a major influencer on the popularity of the flapper during the 1920s?

Answer
  • F

    A decline in the number of women working in urban factories

  • G

    A shift away from the traditional roles of women

  • H

    An increase in the use of credit and installment plans

  • J

    A decrease in crime associated with prohibition

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How might lower income tax rates for the middle class have contributed to the economic growth of the 1920s?

Answer
  • A

    By allowing government to invest more money in infrastructure

  • B

    By creating a real estate boom that grew housing prices

  • C

    By allowing individuals to spend more money on consumer goods

  • D

    By increasing the price of trade and luxury goods

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This graph shows the imports and exports to the United States between 1914-1919

Data from this graph supports the conclusion that World War I - 

Answer
  • F

    was a significant benefit to the American economy

  • G

    caused the U.S. trade deficit to increase

  • H

    cost the United States many billions of dollars

  • J

    created an unfavorable balance of trade

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African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North.  Literacy rates among African Americans increased.  National organizations dedicated to African American civil rights were created

The developments on this list contributed to what development of the 1920s and 1930s?

Answer
  • A

    African American artists and writers celebrated their culture in a movement called the Harlem Renaissance. 

  • B

    African American painters of the Hudson River School focused on the beauty of nature. 

  • C

    African American architects created the Neoclassical style based on Roman and Greek models. 

  • D

    African American musicians developed rock and roll music based on African rhythms and beats. 

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The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be defined or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. 

                                                                                                                - Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified 1920

One effect of the amendment quoted above was to - 

Answer
  • F

    ensure that women would not be subjected to a poll tax

  • G

    increase political participation on the part of women

  • H

    declare state laws regarding women's suffrage unconstitutional

  • J

    grant women equal rights in all aspects of American life

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"Do Everything" An all-round movement can only be carried forward by all-round advocates...Our WCTU is a school... Here we try our wings that...we may calmly take our places and prove to the world that what it needed most was two heads in counsel as well as "two beside the hearth."  When that day comes, the nation shall no longer miss as now the influence of half its wisdom, more than half its purity and nearly all its gentleness, in courts of justice and halls of legislation.  Then shall one code of morals- and that the highest- govern both men and women; then shall the Sabbath be respected, the rights of the poor be recognized, the liquor traffic banished, and the home protected from all its foes.  - A Handbook for the World's White Ribboners, 1895

How did the White Ribboners contribute to U.S. society during the late 1880's?

Answer
  • A

    By supporting the movement to end Reconstruction and Jim Crow

  • B

    By establishing labor unions for women and children

  • C

    By winning the right to vote for African Americans and immigrants

  • D

    By leading efforts to achieve prohibition and women's suffrage

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What was one of the positive impacts that the Harlem Renaissance had on U.S. cultural identity during the 1920s?

Answer
  • F

    It exposed Americans to an earlier age of European art forms. 

  • G

    It expressed the African American experience in literature. 

  • H

    It marked a return to art and music that promoted traditional social values. 

  • J

    It provided financial support for national programs in art and literature. 

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Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles after World War I?

Answer
  • A

    The Senate would not support America's participation in the League of Nations. 

  • B

    The Senate believed the treaty did not punish Germany enough. 

  • C

    The Senate thought the treaty did not have the power to prevent secret alliances. 

  • D

    The Senate could not agree on military disarmament levels. 

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What was one way the role of women in society changed during the 1920's?

Answer
  • F

    They were granted the right to attend public schools. 

  • G

    They were allowed to own property. 

  • H

    They were allowed increased participation in the political process. 

  • J

    They were granted the right to serve in military combat units. 

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Newspaper F headline is Supreme Court Bans Prayer in Public Schools.  Newspaper H headline is Schools Cannot Segregate Students by Race.  Newspaper G headlines is Religion versus Evolution in Schools.  Newspaper headline J is Darwin's Works Banned

Which headline above correctly summarizes the arguments of William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial of the 1920s?

Answer
  • A

    F - Supreme Court Bans Prayer in Public Schools

  • B

    G - Religion versus Evolution in Schools

  • C

    H - Schools Cannot Segregate Students by Race

  • D

    J - Darwin's Works Banned

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There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights...The halls and..verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the drams of Castile...There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden...By midnight the hilarity had increased.  F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

How does this excerpt reflect a significant turning point in American history?

Answer
  • F

    It depicts the reaction to victory in the Spanish-American War. 

  • G

    It portrays the changing social norms of the Jazz Age. 

  • H

    It describes the experiences of immigrant workers during the Gilded Age. 

  • J

    It details the industrial progress of the post - World War I era. 

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The picture title is Auto - Intoxication and it says Disease, Crime, Insanity, Filth and on the man it says The Saloon Business

What was a result of the social problems presented in this 1917 political cartoon? 

Answer
  • A

    Government leaders introduced health-care reform laws. 

  • B

    Lobbyists focused attention on the power of corporate monopolies. 

  • C

    Women worked to improve conditions in tenement houses. 

  • D

    Progressives worked to ratify a prohibition amendment.