Henry Ford's factories helped make the Michigan city of Detroit the center of the American auto industry.
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Detroit
Detroit became known as the Motor City as Ford, General Motors and Chrysler built huge plants in and around it. Jobs there drew workers from across the country, including many African Americans from the South.
Category: Automobile Age
Question 2
Bessie Coleman, barred from American flight schools because she was Black and a woman, earned her pilot's license in France.
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Coleman
Bessie Coleman learned French so she could attend flight school in France and became a celebrated stunt pilot. She died in a crash in 1926.
Category: Mass Entertainment
Question 3
Jim Thorpe, a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, won Olympic gold medals in 1912 and later played professional baseball.
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Thorpe
Jim Thorpe is remembered as one of the greatest all-around athletes in American history. He also helped launch professional gridiron leagues in the early 1920s.
Category: Mass Entertainment
Question 4
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character made him one of the biggest stars of the silent film era.
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Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed and starred in comedies such as The Kid, and he was among the top box-office draws of his time. Movie stars like him became national celebrities in the 1920s.
Category: Mass Entertainment
Question 5
Tennessee's Butler Act of 1925 made it illegal for public school teachers to teach that humans descended from lower animals.
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Butler
The Butler Act banned the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee's public schools. The ACLU challenged it by backing John Scopes in a test case.
Category: Fundamentalism and Science
Question 6
Journalist H. L. Mencken mocked fundamentalists in his coverage of the Scopes trial and popularized the phrase Bible Belt.
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Mencken
H. L. Mencken wrote for the Baltimore Evening Sun and was a sharp critic of small-town and Southern culture. His reporting shaped how many urban readers viewed the trial.
Category: Fundamentalism and Science
Question 7
Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson founded the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles and preached over her own radio station.
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McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson combined old-time religion with modern showmanship, including radio broadcasts and dramatic services. She founded the Foursquare Church.
Category: Fundamentalism and Science
Question 8
Margaret Sanger campaigned to spread birth control information and founded the organization that later became Planned Parenthood.
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Sanger
Margaret Sanger argued that women should control whether and when to have children. Her American Birth Control League of 1921 grew into Planned Parenthood.
Category: New Morality and Women
Question 9
Jamaican-born poet Claude McKay wrote If We Must Die, a call to resist the white mob violence of 1919.
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McKay
Claude McKay wrote the poem in response to the Red Summer race riots, and it became an early landmark of the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote the novel Home to Harlem.
Category: Harlem Renaissance
Question 10
Novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston celebrated Southern Black folk culture in works such as Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston rose to prominence in the Harlem Renaissance, and her best-known novel appeared in 1937. Her work drew on the speech and stories of all-Black Eatonville, Florida, where she grew up.
Category: Harlem Renaissance
Question 11
Jazz, a music born in African American communities from blues and ragtime, spread from New Orleans to Chicago and New York.
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Jazz
Jazz combined improvisation, syncopation and blues traditions and became so popular that the decade is often called the Jazz Age. Nightclubs in Harlem drew large white audiences to see Black performers.
Category: Harlem Renaissance
Question 12
The administration of President Warren Harding was damaged by scandals involving his friends and appointees, known as the Ohio Gang.
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Harding
Warren G. Harding won the 1920 election promising a return to normalcy, but he gave government posts to political cronies from Ohio. Several of his appointees used their offices for personal gain; the most famous scandal, Teapot Dome, centered on Interior Secretary Albert Fall's leasing of federal oil reserves for bribes.
Category: Republican Politics
Question 13
Sinclair Lewis satirized small-town, middle-class conformity in his 1922 novel Babbitt.
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Lewis
Sinclair Lewis mocked the boosterism and materialism of American business culture, and the name of his main character became a word for a self-satisfied conformist. In 1930 he became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Category: Lost Generation
Question 14
President Calvin Coolidge, nicknamed Silent Cal, told newspaper editors in 1925 that the chief business of the American people is business.
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Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge believed government should interfere as little as possible with private enterprise. His remark captured the pro-business spirit of Republican government in the 1920s.
Category: Republican Politics
Question 15
At the Washington Conference of 1921 and 1922, the major naval powers agreed to limit the size of their battleship fleets.
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Washington
The Washington Conference, called under Harding, produced treaties limiting battleship tonnage and easing tensions in the Pacific. The agreements broke down in the 1930s.
Category: Republican Politics