Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Who
said that “the business of America is business”? A. | Calvin
Coolidge | C. | Eugene
Debs | B. | William Joseph
Simmons | D. | Judge Webster
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Herbert Hoover A. | was a Democrat. | B. | had a reputation
for administrative skill and efficiency. | C. | campaigned for “the party of progress and liberal
thought.” | D. | would become the head of the FBI. | | |
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3.
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The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People first organized to A. | generate support
for antilynching legislation. | B. | lobby for more government jobs. | C. | enforce stricter
housing codes. | D. | prepare African American candidates for state and regional
offices. | | |
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4.
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In
1921 Congress passed a law that limited A. | immigrants to ones with families in the United
States. | B. | the immigrant population to 25 percent of the total U.S.
population. | C. | eastern European immigrants to prewar
levels. | D. | immigration by continent of origin. | | |
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In
the 1920s American Indians successfully organized to A. | uphold
“yellow dog contracts.” | B. | grant private leases to oil reserves in Elk Hills,
California. | C. | encourage the government to boost reparation payments to the
tribes. | D. | fight new efforts to take tribal
lands. | | |
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The
return of 4.5 million soldiers had what effect? A. | social and economic stability | B. | a shortage of
jobs and falling wages | C. | more industrial production, higher farm prices, and
agricultural reforms | D. | lower consumer spending and lower national
debt | | |
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7.
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The
Harding administration A. | discouraged aggressive business
practices. | B. | supported tax breaks for all
Americans. | C. | investigated mergers. | D. | believed in
pro-business policies. | | |
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8.
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The
Teapot Dome scandal A. | led to the decline of the NAACP. | B. | broke agreements
of the American Plan. | C. | fueled suspicions of immigrants. | D. | involved friends
of Warren Harding. | | |
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African Americans who moved north A. | were safe from violence and
discrimination. | B. | were subject to additional taxation. | C. | avoided working
in so-called sick industries. | D. | were looking for economic
opportunity. | | |
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The
Ku Klux Klan A. | was rounded up
in the Palmer raids. | B. | was founded by Marcus Garvey. | C. | declined during
Reconstruction. | D. | used violence against those they
opposed. | | |
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Eugene Debs, candidate for the Socialist Party, ran on a platform of A. | pro-business and
antilabor. | C. | revolutionary
Marxism. | B. | collective ownership of
industry. | D. | capitalism. | | | | |
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The
Equal Rights Amendment A. | called for women’s suffrage. | B. | limited the
number of hours a day women could work. | C. | was opposed by many reformers. | D. | was passed by
Congress, but President Harding refused to sign it into law. | | |
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The
goal of the Universal Negro Improvement Association was to A. | provide
organized activities for black youth. | B. | work for equality in the United
States. | C. | encourage black-owned businesses and to promote a black
homeland in Africa. | D. | elect black leaders in city and regional
elections. | | |
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In
the 1920s Mexicans entering the United States A. | had trouble crossing the border. | B. | had to petition
the United States to get entrance visas. | C. | found plenty of low-wage jobs available to them in the
Southwest. | D. | were unable to join labor unions. | | |
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The
Pan-African movement sought to A. | create unions for African Americans. | B. | unite people of
African descent worldwide. | C. | gain support for African American candidates through speeches
and parades. | D. | bring black leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey
together. | | |
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement. A. | demobilization | M. | Palmer
raids | B. | Albert Fall | N. | Seattle general strike | C. | steel strike of
1919 | O. | Pan-Africanism | D. | Ku Klux Klan | P. | Boston police strike | E. | Marcus
Garvey | Q. | Judge Webster
Thayer | F. | Alfred E. Smith | R. | Calvin Coolidge | G. | Fordney-McCumber
Tariff Act | S. | John L.
Lewis | H. | Teapot Dome scandal | T. | NAACP | I. | American
Plan | U. | Nicola
Sacco | J. | Communist International | V. | Red Scare | K. | Equal Rights
Amendment | W. | A. Philip
Randolph | L. | Warren G. Harding | X. | Alice Paul | | | | |
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16.
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a
period of anticommunist hysteria
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peaked when thousands of suspected radicals were arrested
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18.
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executed along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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19.
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known
as Silent Cal
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20.
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Commissioner Edwin Curtis’s refusal to recognize the union caused
this
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a
policy supported by business leaders to encourage union-free shops
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the
transition from wartime to peacetime production levels
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23.
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an
organization designed to encourage worldwide communist revolution
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strikers were jailed, beaten, or shot
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25.
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pushed tariffs to an all-time high
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26.
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organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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27.
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said
“The defendant’s ideals are cognate (associated) with crime”
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28.
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recommended cutting taxes for the wealthy
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29.
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elected president with 60 percent of the popular vote
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30.
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proposed to Congress in 1923 by Alice Paul
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31.
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secretary of the interior granted private leases to oil reserves in California and
Wyoming
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32.
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began
when 35,000 shipyard workers walked off the job
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33.
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supported violence against African Americans and other minorities
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34.
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sought laws against lynching and other acts of violence
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35.
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organized the United Mine Workers strike
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