Chapter 233. Reflections on Resistance to Change, Chapter 23

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, as American cities diversified and modernized, rural Americans sought to preserve and defend their traditional white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant values and culture.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, as American cities diversified and modernized, rural Americans sought to preserve and defend their traditional white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant values and culture.

Correct. The answer is a. The author describes the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and its influence in politics in the Midwest, South, and West as evidence that rural Americans joined together to defend their traditional ways of life in the 1920s.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author describes the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan and its influence in politics in the Midwest, South, and West as evidence that rural Americans joined together to defend their traditional ways of life in the 1920s.

Correct. The answer is d. The author cites H. L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes trial, and especially his descriptions of William Jennings Bryan, as evidence of the contempt and disdain that urban Americans felt for their traditional rural counterparts in the 1920s.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author cites H. L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes trial, and especially his descriptions of William Jennings Bryan, as evidence of the contempt and disdain that urban Americans felt for their traditional rural counterparts in the 1920s.

Correct. The answer is b. The author argues that immigration restriction, which eased worry about foreign invaders, and Klan wrongdoing, such as Grand Dragon David Stephenson’s imprisonment for kidnapping and rape, led to the decline of the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States by the late 1920s.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author argues that immigration restriction, which eased worry about foreign invaders, and Klan wrongdoing, such as Grand Dragon David Stephenson’s imprisonment for kidnapping and rape, led to the decline of the influence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States by the late 1920s.

Correct. The answer is a. The author argues that Smith’s Catholicism was his greatest vulnerability in the heartland of America and the chief reason for his defeat by Hoover in the election of 1928.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author argues that Smith’s Catholicism was his greatest vulnerability in the heartland of America and the chief reason for his defeat by Hoover in the election of 1928.

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