The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization
F
The Scopes "monkey trial" sought to keep the theory of evolution in science classrooms in Tennessee
F
The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America
T
Flappers was the slang used for illegal drinking establishments in the 1920s
F
Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture's musical roots.
F
The NAACP favored militant protests over legal challenges as a way to end racial discrimination.
F
Albert Einstein, Max Planck, and Werner Heinsenberg were members of Al Capone's gang in Chicago.
F
During the 1820s, the ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.
T
The culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created, not copied.
T
Hemingway published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1922.
F
Zane Grey, a former Ohio dentist, wrote dozens of popular western novels featuring violence and heroism on the frontier
T
The theories of relativity and quantum physics led to people:
deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large
Getrude Stein was a(n):
experimental poets
Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:
the subconscious is more interesting and more potent that reason
Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:
real" life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans
Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were
painfully autobiographical
Hemingway used the phrase "lost generation" as the epigraph in:
The Sun Also Rises
All of the following were prophets of modern art and literature EXCEPT:
Edward Bellamy
Far more people read the uplifting poetry of Carl Sandburg than the despairing verse of:
T.S. Eliot
The best-selling novelist of the 1920s was:
Zane Grey
Wrote The Side of Paradise
Scott Fitzgerald
An American artist who reported from Paris in 1912 on the "new psychologists" like Sigmund Freud
Harold Edward "Red" Grange
Wrote The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Wrote The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Mascus Garvey
Defended the teaching of evolution in the Scopes trial
Clarence Darrow
Developed the Principle of Uncertainty
Werner Heisenberg
Was nicknamed the "Galloping Ghost
Marsden Hartely
Pressured the government to prohibit alcohol
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Attacked blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics
The Ku Klux Klan
How many members did the Ku Klux Klanallegedly have at its peak?
as many as 4 million
The Scopes Trial:
concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:
100 percent Americanism
The 1924 immigration law:
set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
Which of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
the Scopes trial
William Jennings Bryan:
prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
As a result of the Scopes trial:
John. T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution
By the early 1900s, the Anti-Saloon League:
had become one of the most effective pressure groups in Americans history.
The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:
1919
Which amendment to the constitution is known as the prohibition amendment?
Eighteenth
Unable to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government convicted him for:
tax evasion
Who celebrated the Jazz era's spontaneity and sensual vitality?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Roaring Twenties was dubbed "The Jazz Age" by:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The novel The Side of Paradise concerned:
modernist student life at Princeton
Which of the following statements best describes working women in the 1920s?
The number of employed women rose
After encountering strong resistance, Mabel Puffer and Arthur Hazzard:
were never allowed to marry
The movement of southern blacks to north:
was called "The Great Migration
The Harlem Renaissance:
sought to rediscover black folk culture
James Weldom Johnson coined the term:
Aframerican
The Universal Negro Improvement Association:
was led by Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey:
said blacks should return to Africa
Which of the following did WEB Du Bois say in his opposition to Marcus Garvey?
[He] is the most dangerous enemy of the Negro Race... He is either a lunatic or a traitor
The NAACP emphasized:
enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the constitution
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a St. Louis-based male pilot, made the first solo transatlantic flight, traveling from New York to Paris
1927
The culture of modernism was characterized by:
developments in science that challenged perceptions of certainty
In physics the theory of relativity was developed and explained by:
Albert Einstein