US HISTORY EXAM 2
The New Era Ch.22
Republican Presidents of the 1920’s
1. Which of the following was a Republican president from Ohio who was the first to advocate for
civil rights and was a part of the Teapot Dome Scandal? He had won a landslide election by
promising a "return to normalcy" after WIlson's presidency.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Which of the following presidents had parents who were closely connected to Dr. John Kellogg
and the seventh day Adventists?
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Which of the following was a Republican president from Vermont and Massachusetts and was
known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words? He acquired the name "Silent Cal"
for being so soft-spoken.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Which of the following presidents enacted the Immigration Act of 1924? This act was a federal
law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from
Eastern and Southern Europe.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
, 5. Which of the following was a Republican president from Iowa and raised in Oregon who served
as Secretary of Commerce and was president during the Stock Market Crash?
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Which president dealt with a group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to
make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945? This group was called the
Bonus Army and Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Army chief of staff, drove out the demonstrators
and destroyed their encampments, using tanks and tear gas.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social History of the 1920’s
7. How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920’s influence American
expenditures?
a. There was no significant change in expenditures
b. Expenditures decreased
c. Expenditures increased
d. Consumer credit became less available in the 1920s
8. How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?
a. Sex became less of a cultural taboo, but only when confined to marriage. Premarital sex
actually declined during the era.
b. There were no significant cultural changes in how Americans thought about and
experienced sex.
c. Religious change encouraged the notion that sex was intended solely for procreation.
d. Many college educated white women rebelled against "Victorian" notions of sexuality,
leading to an increase in premarital sex.
9. Which of the following was an African American leader during the 1920s who founded the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans
back to Africa (“Pan-africanism”) ? He was later deported to Jamaica in 1927.
a. W.E.B. DuBois
b. Henry Grady
, c. Marcus Garvey
d. Martin Luther King Jr.
10. Two events are largely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the
lynching of Leo Frank. What was the second?
a. The release of the film “The Birth Of A Nation”
b. The end of World War I
c. The death of Colonel William Joseph Simmons
d. The creation of a Women's Auxiliary in Indianapolis, Indiana
Chapter 22 Key Terms
11. Which of the following was the name given to the time period when a new form of American
music emerged and influenced society in the 1920s and is a synonym to The Roaring Twenties?
a. Jazz Age
b. The Harlem Renaissance
c. Prohibition
d. The Red Scare
12. Who was a famous home-run hero who made Yankee Stadium and baseball even more popular in
the 20’s? He was nicknamed the Sultan of Swat and had 54 home runs in 1920, more than any
other team combined.
a. Jack Dempsey
b. Charlie Chaplin
c. Elvis Presley
d. George Herman Ruth
13. Which of the following was a period in the 1920s when many in the United States feared recent
immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist
ideology?
a. Jazz Age
b. The Harlem Renaissance
c. Prohibition
d. The Red Scare
14. Which term was coined by Gertrude Stein and is applied to a group of writers, poets, and
musicians in Paris during the 1920s, often characterized by the similar themes discussed in their
work, such as disillusionment in the post-World War I society?
a. The Lost Generation
The New Era Ch.22
Republican Presidents of the 1920’s
1. Which of the following was a Republican president from Ohio who was the first to advocate for
civil rights and was a part of the Teapot Dome Scandal? He had won a landslide election by
promising a "return to normalcy" after WIlson's presidency.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2. Which of the following presidents had parents who were closely connected to Dr. John Kellogg
and the seventh day Adventists?
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
3. Which of the following was a Republican president from Vermont and Massachusetts and was
known for practicing a rigid economy in money and words? He acquired the name "Silent Cal"
for being so soft-spoken.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
4. Which of the following presidents enacted the Immigration Act of 1924? This act was a federal
law that prevented immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from
Eastern and Southern Europe.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
, 5. Which of the following was a Republican president from Iowa and raised in Oregon who served
as Secretary of Commerce and was president during the Stock Market Crash?
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
6. Which president dealt with a group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to
make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945? This group was called the
Bonus Army and Douglas MacArthur, the U.S. Army chief of staff, drove out the demonstrators
and destroyed their encampments, using tanks and tear gas.
a. Warren Gamaliel Harding
b. John Calvin Coolidge
c. Herbert Clark Hoover
d. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Social History of the 1920’s
7. How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920’s influence American
expenditures?
a. There was no significant change in expenditures
b. Expenditures decreased
c. Expenditures increased
d. Consumer credit became less available in the 1920s
8. How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?
a. Sex became less of a cultural taboo, but only when confined to marriage. Premarital sex
actually declined during the era.
b. There were no significant cultural changes in how Americans thought about and
experienced sex.
c. Religious change encouraged the notion that sex was intended solely for procreation.
d. Many college educated white women rebelled against "Victorian" notions of sexuality,
leading to an increase in premarital sex.
9. Which of the following was an African American leader during the 1920s who founded the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and advocated mass migration of African Americans
back to Africa (“Pan-africanism”) ? He was later deported to Jamaica in 1927.
a. W.E.B. DuBois
b. Henry Grady
, c. Marcus Garvey
d. Martin Luther King Jr.
10. Two events are largely credited with inspiring the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. One is the
lynching of Leo Frank. What was the second?
a. The release of the film “The Birth Of A Nation”
b. The end of World War I
c. The death of Colonel William Joseph Simmons
d. The creation of a Women's Auxiliary in Indianapolis, Indiana
Chapter 22 Key Terms
11. Which of the following was the name given to the time period when a new form of American
music emerged and influenced society in the 1920s and is a synonym to The Roaring Twenties?
a. Jazz Age
b. The Harlem Renaissance
c. Prohibition
d. The Red Scare
12. Who was a famous home-run hero who made Yankee Stadium and baseball even more popular in
the 20’s? He was nicknamed the Sultan of Swat and had 54 home runs in 1920, more than any
other team combined.
a. Jack Dempsey
b. Charlie Chaplin
c. Elvis Presley
d. George Herman Ruth
13. Which of the following was a period in the 1920s when many in the United States feared recent
immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist, or anarchist
ideology?
a. Jazz Age
b. The Harlem Renaissance
c. Prohibition
d. The Red Scare
14. Which term was coined by Gertrude Stein and is applied to a group of writers, poets, and
musicians in Paris during the 1920s, often characterized by the similar themes discussed in their
work, such as disillusionment in the post-World War I society?
a. The Lost Generation
