The anti-immigrant attitudes reflected in this trial most directly contributed to:

Answer: Passage of the National Origins Act of 1924, which set quotas favoring northern Europeans The Johnson-Reed Act (1924) imposed national-origins quotas that severely restricted southern and eastern European immigration.

The 1924 National Origins Act primarily targeted immigrants from

Answer: Southern and Eastern Europe The 1924 quota tied permits to 2% of each nationality's 1890 population, suppressing Italian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish entry.

The Harlem Renaissance (1920s)

Answer: Was a flourishing of African American art, literature, and music in Harlem (Hughes, Hurston, Ellington, etc.) Reshaped American culture and Black identity.

AP US History · Topic 7.8

1920s: Cultural and Political Controversies Practice

Part of Period 7: 1890–1945.

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Sample 1difficulty 3/5
$"I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian... if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already." — Bartolomeo Vanzetti, statement to the court, April 1927$
$The anti-immigrant attitudes reflected in this trial most directly contributed to:$
- A
  $Adoption of bilingual education in federal law$
- B
  $Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1920s$
- C
  $Federal grants of citizenship to all Native Americans by 1900$
- D
  $Passage of the National Origins Act of 1924, which set quotas favoring northern Europeans$
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Why
$The Johnson-Reed Act (1924) imposed national-origins quotas that severely restricted southern and eastern European immigration.$
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Sample 2difficulty 3/5
$"I was made over. The past was a dim, far-off country which I had left forever. America was beginning, with my new English name. I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. I am the spirit of the future. I make my bow as a daughter of the Mayflower as proudly as that lady whose family came over in the original boat." — Mary Antin, The Promised Land, 1912$
$The 1924 National Origins Act primarily targeted immigrants from$
- A
  $Mexico and the Caribbean$
- B
  $Western Europe$
- C
  $Southern and Eastern Europe$
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- D
  $Canada and Britain$
Why
$The 1924 quota tied permits to 2% of each nationality's 1890 population, suppressing Italian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish entry.$
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Sample 3difficulty 3/5
$The Harlem Renaissance (1920s)$
- A
  $Was a wartime mobilization effort organized in Harlem during the First World War to recruit and train Black volunteer soldiers$
- B
  $Was a flourishing of African American art, literature, and music in Harlem (Hughes, Hurston, Ellington, etc.)$
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- C
  $Was a series of race riots that erupted across Harlem during the early 1920s and led to mass arrests of Black residents and laborers$
- D
  $Was a religious revival sweeping Black churches across the urban Northeast and producing new denominations and seminaries$
Why
$Reshaped American culture and Black identity.$
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Sample 4difficulty 3/5
$"In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the life of the American Negro and the three norns who have traditionally presided over the Negro problem have a changeling in their laps. The Sociologist, the Philanthropist, the Race-leader are not unaware of the New Negro, but they are at a loss to account for him... With this renewed self-respect and self-dependence, the life of the Negro community is bound to enter a new dynamic phase." — Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925)$
$Locke's essay served as a manifesto for the$
- A
  $Harlem Renaissance flowering of African American arts and letters$
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- B
  $Back-to-Africa movement led by Marcus Garvey$
- C
  $Tuskegee Institute's vocational program$
- D
  $Niagara Movement of 1905$
Why
$Locke edited The New Negro (1925), the defining anthology of the Harlem Renaissance, including Hughes, Hurston, Cullen, and others.$
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Sample 5difficulty 3/5
$"I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian... if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already." — Bartolomeo Vanzetti, statement to the court, April 1927$
$Vanzetti's statement is best understood in the context of which 1920s trend?$
- A
  $Bipartisan embrace of open immigration from southern Europe$
- B
  $Federal protections for unionized industrial workers$
- C
  $Widespread state repeal of capital punishment$
- D
  $Postwar Red Scare hostility toward immigrants and political radicals$
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Why
$The Sacco-Vanzetti case occurred amid the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, and the National Origins Act of 1924.$
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