20's & 30's Review

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What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?

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High unemploment

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Which reason BEST explains the change in the number of cars sold between 1910 and 1925?

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Cars became more affordable because of the introduction of the assembly line.

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The movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized cities to seek economic opportunities is called the -

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Great Migration

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How did political scandals like the Teapot Dome scandal impact the United States?

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Distrust for the Government Grew

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What was a major factor leading to the erosion of regional cultural differences in the 1920s? Options: development of television, growing popularity of radio and motion pictures, publication of novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, expansion of air travel after Charles Lindbergh’s flight

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growing popularity of radio and motion pictures

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During the 1920s, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate that –

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nativist opinions were on the rise

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What was the primary reason for the "Palmer raids" conducted by Attorney-General A. Mitchell Palmer in January 1920?

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To halt the spread of communist ideas by radicals.

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During the 1920s, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were most closely identified with the --

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conflict between modernism and traditionalism

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Which of these cause-and-effect relationships is accurate? The ideas of social Darwinism led to the passage of Prohibition laws. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles contributed to the implementation of the New Deal. The ideas of the Harlem Renaissance influenced the growth of the Civil Rights movement. The rise of fascism in Italy influenced the onset of the Red Scare.

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The ideas of the Harlem Renaissance influenced the growth of the Civil Rights movement.

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Some of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional when the Supreme Court held that they-

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infringed on powers reserved to the states