Immigration restrictions of the 1920

1

• Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were
  introduced as a result of
• Increased migration of blacks to the north
• The nativist belief that that northern Europeans
  were superior to southern and eastern Europeans
• A desire to rid the country of the quota system
• The desire to halt immigration from Latin America
• B

2

• Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest
  resistance from
• Women
• Westerners
• Eastern city dwellers
• Southerners
• C

3

• John Dewey can rightly be called the father of
  ______
• The research university
• Evolutionary science
• Modern psychoanalysis
• Progressive education
• D

4

• Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows,
  expressed great admiration for Jesus Christ
  because Barton
• Was a deeply religious man
• Respected Christs image of self-sacrifice
• Saw Christ as someone who practiced the Golden
  Rule
• Believed that Jesus was the best advertising man
  of all time
• D

5

• Among the major figures promoted by mass media
  image makers and the new sports industry in the
  1920s were
• John Sullivan and William Cody
• Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh
• Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
• Al Jolson and Margaret Sanger
• C

6

• The postwar anxiety and intolerance of Americans
  in the 1920s was manifested in all of the
  following except the
• Sacco-Vanzetti case
• Scopes Trial
• Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
• Repeal of the Immigration Act of 1924
• D

7

• In the mid-1920s the Ku Klux Klan turned its
  invective against all of the following except
• Recent immigrants
• Catholics
• Prohibitionists
• Gambling and adultery
• C

8

• The noble experiment of prohibition
• Was generally well enforced and observed
• Was a complete failure
• Was most popular on the East Coast
• Reduced absenteeism in American industry
• D

9

• The most innovative features of the jazz-age
  economy included
• Mass advertising
• Capital investment
• Government aid to manufacturing
• The stock market
• A

10

• The mass production of automobiles in the 1920s
  led to the growth of all of the following except
• The railroad industry
• The petroleum industry
• Suburban communities
• Installment buying
• A

11

• He was the Attorney General who led a crusade
  against political radicals and left-wingers.
• A. Mitchell Palmer
• Horace Kallen
• Randolph Borne
• William Jennings Bryan
• A

12

• Approximately ___ immigrants moved to America
  between 1920 and 1921, mostly from southern and
  eastern Europe.
• 500,000
• 800,000
• 1,200,000
• 1,500,000
• B

13

• The ____ restricted European immigration to a
  definite quota, set at 3 of the nationality
  already present in 1910.
• Emergency Quota Act of 1921
• Immigration Act of 1924
• Limited Immigration Act of 1922
• Gentlemens Agreement
• A

14

• Immigration quotas had all of the following
  effects except
• The sacrifice of the US tradition of freedom and
  opportunity
• A stall in the future ethnic diversity of the
  nation
• for the first time in US history, more
  foreigners left than arrived
• Chinese were prohibited from emigrating to the US
• D

15

• The ___ made interstate abduction in certain
  circumstances a death-penalty offense.
• The Darwinian Accord
• The Lindbergh Law
• The Earhardt Act
• The Child Endangerment Law
• B

16

• ___was indicted for teaching evolution. His
  lawyer was ____. He was prosecuted by ____.
• Scopes, Bryan, Darrow
• Darrow, Bryan, Scopes
• Scopes, Darrow, Bryan
• Bryan, Scopes, Darrow
• C

17

• By 1930, Americans owned almost ___ million cars.
• 17
• 26
• 30
• 51
• B

18

• He was considered the Father of Scientific
  Management.
• Henry Ford
• Ransom E. Olds
• Jack Dempsey
• Frederick Taylor
• D

19

• All of the following were effects of Fordism
  except
• Rising employment rates
• Lower standard of living
• Industrialization of the western frontier
• Greater development of the fabric industry
• B

20

• The innovation of the airplane resulted in all of
  the following in the 20s except
• The rise of the policy of isolationism
• The floundering of the railroad industry
• The advancement of warfare
• Improvement of the postal service
• A

21

• The first airmail route stretched from ___ to
  ___.
• New York, San Francisco
• Boston, Seattle
• New York, Los Angeles
• Philadelphia, San Francisco
• A

22

• The radio had all of the following effects on
  society except
• A knitting together of the nation
• An increase in free enterprise
• Increased national awareness of political issues
• Increased regional individualism
• D

23

• The first talkie was
• The Great Train Robbery
• Birth of a Nation
• The Jazz Singer
• Amos n Andy
• C

24

• The Secretary of the Treasury under Wilson was
• Andrew Mellon
• Marcus Garvey
• W.C. Handy
• William Jennings Bryan
• A

25

• All of the following are true of Andrew Mellon
  except
• He reduced the national debt by 10 billion
• He dramatically reduced taxes on the wealthy
• He contributed to the crash of the stock market
• He believed that high income taxes encouraged
  investment in factory payrolls
• D