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Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of the following except

struggle to achieve economic prosperity.

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against

the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of

the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans.

The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against

southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

immigrants and big-city residents.

According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to

educate students for life by active learning methods.

After the Scopes "Monkey Trial"

fundamentalist religion remained a vibrant force in American spiritual life.

The American radio industry was distinctive from radio in European nations because it

was a commercial business dependent on advertising.

Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures

contributed to the standardization of American life.

The most influential classical film of the 1910s, D.W. Griffiths' Birth of a Nation, stirred extensive protest \n by African Americans because

the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan and portrayed blacks as corrupt politicians or rapists.

All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, except he

promoted the resettlement of American blacks in Africa.

Warren G. Harding's weaknesses as president included all of the following except a(n)

lack of political experience.

The primary reason that Warren G. Harding was willing to seize the initiative on the issue of international disarmament was that

businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger United States Navy.

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

officially outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry and conflict.

The Fordney-McCumber and Hawley-Smoot Tariff laws had the long-term effect of

shrinking international trade and making it impossible for Europe to repay American war loans.

Which of the following was not a consequence of the American policy of raising tariffs sky-high in the \n 1920s?

The American economy slipped into recession.

One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was

overproduction.

The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by

having the federal government buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad.

Senator Robert La Follette's Progressive party advocated all of the following except

increased power for the Supreme Court.

America's major foreign-policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which

provided a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparations payments.

When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover

combined small-town values with wide experience in modern corporate America.

President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to

offer federal assistance to businesses and banks but not individuals.

The phrase Hundred Days refers to the

flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to

an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible.

The Glass-Steagall Act

created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits.

Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to

stimulate inflation.

The most complex and ambitious New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy was the

National Recovery Administration.

Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to

"share our wealth" by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000.

The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by

taxing processors of farm products.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to

reverse the forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government.

The American Social Security System, established by the New Deal, differed from most European social welfare systems primarily because it

did not initially cover all categories of workers.

President Roosevelt's Court-packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court

more sympathetic to New Deal programs.