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Chapter 25: Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment

True/False Quiz

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	The new quota system adopted in the 1920s made it more difficult for "new" immigrants to enter the United States.    True  False

	The 1920 census revealed that for the first time a majority of Americans lived in urban rather than rural areas.    True  False

	The first major talking motion picture was D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.    True  False

	In the 1920s, rural Americans tended to think of America's new urban culture as sinful and overly materialistic.    True  False

	In the 1920s, rural-urban tensions resulted in urban intolerance and agrarian radicalism.    True  False

	The prohibitionist movement received its strongest support from rural America in the 1920s.    True  False

	Though it was much trumpeted as a "noble experiment," the prohibition amendment had little effect on drinking habits in the 1920s.    True  False

	The decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s was primarily due to the condemnation of its actions by both the federal government and Protestant church leaders.    True  False

	American literature in the 1920s continued to reflect the progressive movement's optimism and faith in human nature.    True  False

	Significant gains in civil rights and equal employment opportunities gave blacks a greater sense of optimism in the 1920s.    True  False

	The greater prosperity of the 1920s was largely the result of the increasing efficiency of production in American industry.    True  False

	Of all the industries, automobile production had the single most important impact on the booming economy of the 1920s.    True  False

	In addition to his innovative business talents, Henry Ford was well known for his campaign opposing ignorance and anti-Semitism.    True  False

	Because it was so unsophisticated, early radio advertising had little effect on consumer purchasing patterns.    True  False

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