Compare the various manifestations of cultural conflict in the twenties
What similar impulses motivated Americans to enact prohibition, immigration restrictions, and laws prohibiting the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution? How did these various reforms affect American society?
Americans' concerns about health, thrift, and "traditional morals" partially motivated the temperance, nativist, anti-evolutionist, and Christian Fundamentalist movements, but these movements were opposed by Americans more concerned about personal freedom and limited government. Anti-immigrant feelings were flamed by fear of communism and anarchism but also reflected an emotional response to economic uncertainty.
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When Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had a list of several dozen communists in the State Department, the list was
a) supplied to him by Richard Nixon. b) known to President Eisenhower, but had been suppressed. c) the basis for the trial and conviction of these men. d) stolen by reporters and published in the nation's newspapers. e) a complete fabrication.
John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve his domination of the oil industry except
a. employing spies. b. extorting rebates from railroads. c. using federal agents to break his competitors. d. acquiring control of 95 percent of all the oil refineries in the country. e. using high-pressure sales methods.
William Howard Taft won renomination in 1912 because he controlled the federal patronage and the Republican Party machinery
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
The reason that the Canadian government offered citizenship and the right to vote to black immigrants after three years’ residency was __________
A) strong opposition to American slavery B) the hope that they could enslave unwitting blacks who entered their country C) the hope that new black communities would provide a buffer between white Canadians and rebellious Indians D) the revenue to be raised from taxation