American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" Part 1

The red scare of 1919–1920 was provoked by

• the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.

• urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition.

• public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation.

• the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.

Businesspeople used the red scare to

• establish closed shops throughout the nation.

• break the backs of fledgling unions.

• break the railroad strike of 1919.

• secure passage of laws making unions illegal.

The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the following except

• fundamentalist religion.

• opposition to birth control.

• opposition to prohibition.

• repression of pacifists.

The Ku Klux Klan virtually collapsed in the late 1920s when

• the immigration restriction laws of the early 1920s were repealed.

• the organization was publicly exposed as a corrupt and cynical racket.

• the advent of radio led to a new level of public knowledge and tolerance.

• the Klan proved unable to implement its program.

Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph Bourne generally advocated that

• Spanish and German should be recognized as official languages of the United States along with English.

• diverse religious beliefs could coexist peacefully in the United States.

• immigrants to the United States could remain politically loyal to their original nations.

• immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American melting pot.

One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and organization in America was

• ethnic diversity.

• the lack of a reform impulse in America.

• the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.

• the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.

Cultural Pluralists like Randolph Bourne and Horace Kallen believed strongly that

• multiple European cultures should be welcomed in America but not Asian or Latin American cultures.

• ethnic territories should be recognized and protected.

• the United States should recognize multiple official languages besides English.

• immigrant groups should be able to retain their beliefs and traditions while contributing to a more cosmopolitan America.

The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was

• Eastern Orthodoxy.

• Lutheranism.

• evangelical Protestantism.

• Roman Catholicism.

The zeal of federal agents in enforcing prohibition laws against liquor smugglers strained U.S. diplomatic relations with

• Canada.

• Mexico.

• the Dominican Republic.

• Spain.

Besides controlling the illegal liquor industry, American gangsters in the 1920s earned rich profits from all of the following activities except

• prostitution.

• gambling.

• labor racketeering.

• pornography.