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What was the main result of national prohibition?

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large-scale organized crime

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What did the immigration laws of 1921 and 1924 do?

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created complex quota systems to restrict immigration to the united states

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In the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan declared what?

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itself as the defender of traditional American values.

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The event in 1925 that came to epitomize much of the intellectual debate of the 1920’s was the?

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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Throughout his career, Herbert Hoover advocated what?

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associative state

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In the years after World War I the United States engaged how in international affairs?

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selectively

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What was the first motion picture with dialogue?

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“The Jazz Singer”

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What was the world’s first commercial radio station?

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KDKA

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What was the name of the sitcom set in Harlem that was played by white actors poking fun of the black community.

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Amos and Andy

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What was the main style of dance during the 20’s?

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the Charleston

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What style of literary art form did Langston Hughes use?

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jazz poetry

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Who was the first writer in the US to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Sinclair Lewis

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What famous trial involved a Tennessee teacher who taught evolution?

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Scopes Trial

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Who was the leading lawyer of the Scopes Trial?

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Clarence Darrow

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Who stole money from the Veterans’ Bureau under Harding?

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Charles Forbes

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What was Daugherty accused of?

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profiting from the sale of government alcohol supplies

17
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Who were the Ohio Gang?

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a group of politicians who achieved high office during the presidential administration of Warren G. Harding

18
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What was Calvin Coolidge’s nickname?

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Silent Cal

19
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What was the Dawes Plan?

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an attempt following World War I for theTriple Ententeto compromise and collect war reparations debt from Germany

20
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What did the Kellog-Briand act promise?

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not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them”

21
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Who was Elected in the 1928 election?

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Herbert Hoover

22
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What amendment was requested to guarantee equal rights to women?

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ERA

23
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Who led the prohibition era crime in Chicago?

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Al Capone

24
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What act extended the 18th Amendment?

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Volsted Act

25
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What did Fundamentalists believe in?

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a literal interpretation of the bible

26
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What was the Cotton Club?

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aNew York Citynight clublocated first in theHarlemneighborhood and then in the midtownTheater District

27
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What is the term for a a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support aunion?

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Open Shop

28
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Who was Marcus Garvey?

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staunch proponent of theBlack nationalismandPan-Africanismmovements and founded theUniversal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League

29
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Who was A. Philip Randolph?

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a leader in theAfrican-Americancivil-rights movement, theAmerican labor movement andsocialistpolitical parties

30
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Who was “Red Grange”?

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a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees

31
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Who was the first woman to swim across the English Channel?

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Gertrude Ederle

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The most important problem faced by the Democratic party in the 1920s was?:

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a serious split between urban and rural wings of the party.

33
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The conclusion of the Sacco and Vanzetti case suggested that?:

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many Americans had an unreasonable fear of radicals and foreigners.

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