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Example Question #1 : U.S. Social History From 1899 To The Present
“How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they have seen Paris?”
The above quote likely refers to .
the decline of American agriculture due to foreign competition.
the difficulty for American men trying to reintegrate into society after World War I.
the growth in atheism and agnosticism.
the desire to re-segregate the South.
the social upheaval that followed the women’s liberation movement.
the difficulty for American men trying to reintegrate into society after World War I.
The quote refers to the difficulty of American men to reintegrate into society following World War I. The majority of Americans in that era had never been more than a few hundred miles from their homes, let alone across continents. In addition, many men suffered from extreme trauma from the events they witnessed and participated in. A lot of jobs had been taken up by women, in the absence of male workers, and post-war society faced the problem of how to resolve this disparity.
Example Question #2 : U.S. Social History From 1899 To The Present
The massive increase in underground crime syndicates during the 1920s is largely attributable to which Constitutional amendment?
The Eighteenth Amendment's prohibition of alcohol possession and sales
The Sixteenth Amendment's imposition of a federal income tax
The Nineteenth Amendment's guarantee of women's suffrage
None of the other answers
The Seventeenth Amendment's guarantee of direct election of senators
The Eighteenth Amendment's prohibition of alcohol possession and sales
The Eighteenth Amendment was the culmination of a decades long temperance movement that sought to end all alcohol sales, distribution, and consumption in America. Initially celebrated as a progressive victory, the legal enforcement of prohibition proved a nightmare, and legions of criminal gangs began to control the illegal alcohol sales. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty First Amendment in 1933.
Example Question #56 : U.S. Social History
Which court case struck down the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the field of public education?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Loving v. Virginia
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
In Brown, Chief Justice Earl Warren expressed that in the arena of public education, "separate but equal" is inherently unequal, unfair, and unconstitutional. Plessy v. Ferguson is a prior case that upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Example Question #61 : U.S. Social History
Which of the following best describes the status of Black soldiers in the United States Army during World War I?
Black soldiers were almost exclusively placed in segregated units, away from their white compatriots. These regiments were usually commanded by white officers. Many black soldiers were held away from the primary areas of battle, this was generally a result of the racist view of many Americans that blacks were unfit or unwilling to fight with the same efficacy as their white peers.
Example Question #62 : U.S. Social History
What was the Supreme Court Case that outlawed racial segregation in public schools?
The decision in Brown v. Board of Education stemmed from a case brought by an African American family from Topeka, Kansas, challenging that city’s policy of having two school systems, one for white children and one for African-Americans. The unanimous decision in Brown outlawed racial segregation in public schools throughout the nation as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Example Question #63 : U.S. Social History
Which one of the following institutions was fully racially integrated across America first?
On July 26, 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981, fully integrating every branch and level of the United States Military. Secondary Schools and State College were not integrated by court order until the 1950s, while public transportation did not get fully integrated nationwide until the 1965 Civil Rights Act. Prisons in the south were generally segregated until the 1970s.
Example Question #64 : U.S. Social History
Which amendment repealed prohibition?
Prohibition was enacted following the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment. For many Americans it represented an unnecessary intrusion of rural, Protestant ideals on a key aspect of urban, working class life. The lax enforcement of the law, coupled with a significant demand for alcohol created, amongst other things, the rise of the American Mafia and widespread corruption in Politics and Civil Society. It was repealed thirteen years later, in 1933, with the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment.
Example Question #65 : U.S. Social History
“We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities? We believe that it does.”
The above passage is taken from which Supreme Court Case?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gibbons v. Ogden
McCulloch v. Maryland
Brown v. Board of Education
None of those mentioned
Brown v. Board of Education
That quote is an excerpt from the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case. The case established that “separate but equal” was unconstitutional in practice, because it was inherently unequal. The case reversed a previous decision made by the Supreme Court, in 1896, in the Plessy v. Ferguson case, which had mandated that “separate but equal” was constitutional. It was a landmark case in the growing civil rights movement of the era.
Example Question #66 : U.S. Social History
In the 1920s, young women who bobbed their hair, wore short skirts, drank, smoked, and communicated disdain for social and sexual mores (often while enjoying jazz) were known as what?
Libbers
Flappers
Roaring Twenties Gals
Roarers
Freebirds
Flappers
Young women of the 1920s who dressed and behaved as such were collectively known as Flappers.
Example Question #67 : U.S. Social History
During the Great Depression in the 1930s, this term was contemptuously applied to men and women from Oklahoma (and surrounding states), who had migrated to California seeking work.
Nogoodniks
Okies
Carpetbaggers
Muckrakers
Sooners
Okies
Migrants from Oklahoma and nearby states, like Arkansas, were lumped together and called "Okies."
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