During the 1920s, How Did the Majority of the Nation

question 25

Multiple Choice

During the 1920s, how did the majority of the nation respond to the self-indulgent excesses of the Lost Generation and Jazz Age?

• A) Most enthusiastically threw their support toward the progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
• B) Most instead became increasingly preoccupied with reform, as the middle class was quickly decreasing in number.
• C) Most were supportive of the cultural rebelliousness of the time and took advantage of the current climate to call for unprecedentedly liberal legislation.
• D) Most began to lead secular lives and became defiant modernists, growing more unified in their positions on culture.
• E) Most instead led traditional lives and defended established values, which contributed to the backlash in national politics against modern city life.

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