Topics: Culture › Traditions
Type: Controversial Essays
Sample donated: Josefina Gross
Last updated: May 1, 2019
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:
B) two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
William Jennings Bryan:
A) prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution
The Scopes trial:
C) concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools
Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
C) the Scopes trial
By the 1910s, the Anti-Saloon League:
B) had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American history
The author of Main Street, a novel about the banality of small-town life, was:
B) Sinclair Lewis
Jazz:
C) blended African and European musical traditions
All of the following could be associated with flappers EXCEPT:
C) Victorian values
Margaret Sanger is best associated with which of the following?
C) birth control
Carrie Chapman Catt was best known for her achievements promoting:
A) women’s suffrage
Which amendment to the constitution gave women the right to vote?
B) Nineteenth
The Universal Negro Improvement Association:
B) was led by Marcus Garvey
The NAACP emphasized:
B) legal action against discrimination
In physics, the theory of relativity was developed and explained by
A) Albert Einstein
The theories of relativity and quantum physics led people to:
B) deny the relevance of absolute values in society at large
Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:
C) the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than reason
The Armory Show in 1913:
B) was a controversial exhibition of modern art
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of:
B) sad young characters who displayed potential but were ultimately doomed
The Waste Land, a poem that became the favorite of many modernist readers because of its sense of disillusionment and its suggestion of a burned-out civilization, was written by:
A) T. S. Eliot
Modernism waned by the end of the 1920s because:
A) the Great Depression overwhelmed the cultural alienation of the 1920s
