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Chapter 24 | The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
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6. Which man was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?
11. Why did the prohibition amendment fail after its adoption in 1919?
12. What was the Harlem Renaissance, and who were some of the most famous participants?
13. Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?
A. Calvin Coolidge
B. Woodrow Wilson
C. Warren Harding
D. James Cox
14. In 1929, Albert Fall was convicted of bribery while holding the position of ________.
A. Secretary of the Interior
B. head of the Veterans’ Bureau
C. Secretary of the Treasury
D. Secretary of Commerce
15. Coolidge’s presidency was characterized by ________.
A. scandal and dishonesty
B. silence and inactivity
C. flamboyancy and extravagance
D. ambition and greed
16. What was the economic outlook of the average American when Herbert Hoover took office in 1929?
A. Babe Ruth
B. H. L. Mencken
C. Jim Thorpe
D. Billy Sunday
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8. The popularization of which psychologist’s ideas encouraged the new morality of the 1920s?
What was the platform of the Second Ku Klux Klan, and in what activities did they engage to promote it?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Alice Paul
C. W. E. B. Du Bois
D. Margaret Sanger
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10. Which novel of the era satirized the conformity of the American middle class?
A. This Side of Paradise
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. Babbitt
Critical Thinking Questions
Which amendment did Alice Paul promote to end gender discrimination?
A. Prohibition Amendment
B. Equal Rights Amendment
C. Sheppard-Towner Amendment
D. Free Exercise Amendment
17. Explain how the 1920s was a decade of contradictions. What does the relationship between mass immigration and the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan tell us about American attitudes? How might we reconcile the decade as the period of both the flapper and prohibition?
18. What new opportunities did the 1920s provide for women and African Americans? What new limitations did this era impose?
19. Discuss what the concept of “modernity” meant in the 1920s. How did art and innovation in the decade reflect the new mood of the postwar era?
20. Explain how technology took American culture in new and different directions. What role did motion pictures and radio play in shaping cultural attitudes in the United States?
21. Discuss how politics of the 1920s reflected the new postwar mood of the country. What did the Harding administration’s policies attempt to achieve, and how?