Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis were popular authors who often wrote about
(a) the problems of urban life in the 1890s
(b) disillusionment with American society in the 1920s
(c) the migration of farmers in the 1930s
(d) water and air pollution in the 1960s
Answer: (b) disillusionment with American society in the 1920s
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The first president of the NAACP was:
A) James Weldon Johnson. B) Oswald Garrison Villard. C) Moorfield Storey. D) Mary Church Terrell.
Which of the following statements best describes the Akan states?
A) The rulers gave land to settlers and asked nothing in return. B) The rulers refused to trade with Europeans. C) The rulers used guns to prevent the Akan states from expanding. D) The rulers used gold from mines to purchase slaves.
Why was the 1807 federal slavery law unsatisfying for everyone?
a. On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery. b. It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the United States and only frustrated relations with European allies. c. On the one hand, it appeased antislavery European allies, but on the other hand, it frustrated U.S. slave owners. d. It granted African Americans only freedom, not any voting or civil rights, while at the same time infuriating their slave owners. e. It appeased southern slave owners but infuriated northern abolitionists.
What kind of writing did the Mayan develop?
a. alphabetic b. mixture of hieroglyphic and alphabetic c. abstract ideographs d. hieroglyphic e. numeric code