History of the Americas Questions

The purpose of the immigration restriction acts passed in the 1920s was toA. exclude Chinese immigration for a period of ten yearsB. favor northern and western European immigrationC. favor southern and eastern European immigrationD. deny citizenship to immigrants from Asia and AfricaE. limit immigration from Canada and Mexico

"A few years ago, in the late 1920's, Alain Locke, came to Harlem to gather material for the Survey Graphic magazine and was hailed as the discoverer of artistic Harlem.""The Whites who read that issue of the Survey Graphic became aware, in Harlem there existed those interested in art. Whites went to see for themselves these Negroes""News that Harlem had become a paradise spread rapidly and from villages and towns all over America"Levi Hubert, reflecting on life in Harlem in the 1920s, written in 1938Which of the following contributed to Hubert's criticism of White Americans who visited Harlem in the 1920s?A. The inability of African American artists to influence popular cultureB. Ongoing public debates over how to improve race relationsC. Opposition to recruiting African American soldiers for the United States ArmyD. Racial restrictions on the freedom of speech imposed during the First World War

(Caption saying "the rise and fall of man", with pictures each labeled as a Primate, Neanderthal Man, Socrates, then W.J Bryan)The cartoon above was intended primarily as a satirical comment onA. Social DarwinismB. the Ku Klux KlanC. the election of 1896D. the Scopes trialE. Lochner v. New York

(Photo of a car on an assembly line)The 1920s photograph above illustrates a production process that led toA. government ownership of the automobile industryB. the promotion of individual craftsmanship and pride among workers and artisansC. lower prices and greater availability for mass-produced consumer goodsD. the establishment of training and educational requirements for workersE. a sharp drop in labor union membership due to high employee satisfaction

Which leader was chosen to serve as provisional president of the confederacy in 1861?

A revival of evangelical protestantism in the early nineteenth century.

____________ wrote a powerful novel that inflamed sentiment against slavery before the Civil War.

Southerners backing the ___________ was a contradiction to the southern insistence on "States rights" because it showed that they were willing to use the power of the federal government against other states.

The confederacy was founded when which state seceded form the union?

In the 1857 Dred Scott case, the supreme court of the United States ruled that Scott will remain a slave. In addition,

_____________ helped many slaves escape to freedom along the underground railroad.

The Kansas-Nebraska act promoted the principle of?

____________ argued that the Republican party aimed to bring about "race-mixing" through sexual relations or marriage (miscegenation).

__________- A minority of elite slaveholders who wielded a disproportionate amount of power over the federal government, shaping domestic and foreign policies to suit their interests.

The American party, who were primarily a anti-immigrant party, referred to themselves as the?

The utopian community began by Robert Owen in 1825 was founded around which principle?

Which of the following did NOT contribute to Lincoln's victory in the election of 1860?

Which of the following was a focus of the new Republican party?

Stressed transformative individual religious experience or piety over religious rituals and formality?

Which reformer focused on women's roles as the educators of children?