In what ways did the decade of the 1920s see a reaction to the emergence of modern values?
What will be an ideal response?
Students have a good deal of evidence of antimodern sentiments. Organizations like the Ku Klux Klan symbolize the 1920s cultural wars. Prohibition and nativism likewise represented efforts of old-stock Americans to maintain what they saw as traditional values. A sophisticated student might point to the figure of Henry Ford, whose automobiles heralded the modern world at the same time as his fears of Jewish conspiracies revealed his anxieties about that world.
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Booker T. Washington urged black people to __________
A) leave the South B) concentrate on economic goals C) form their own nation D) fight for their civil rights
Safavid power was spread through Persia by
a. resurgent Sunni military leaders. b. Ismail's militant use of Shi'ite Islam to unify the region. c. Safi's enforcement of sufi mysticism throughout the region. d. Shah Abbas' successful military campaigns against the Byzantines. e. Sunni pashas.
The Poverty Point mound complex in Louisiana was a trade hub on what river?
a. Hudson b. Mississippi c. Missouri d. Red e. Atchafalaya
The factory system began in which industry?
A. textiles B. firearms C. shoemaking D. iron production