Unit 10 Test Review

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

The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920's was

• Frederick W. Taylor

• William Jennings Bryan

• Eugene V. Debs

• A. Mitchell Palmer

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

• immigration restrictions against "non-native" Americans

• anti-Semitism

• opposition to prohibition

• anti-Catholicism

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's was a reaction against

• the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture

• new immigration laws passed in 1924

• the nativist movements that had their origins in the 1850's

• race riots

During the 1920's, many American immigrant ethnic groups

• rapidly assimilated into the mainstream of American life

• sought to escape urban poverty by migrating to rural areas

• lived in neighborhoods with their own churches or synagogues, newspapers, and theaters

• maintained a greater loyalty to the old country than to the United States

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

• women

• foreign-born peoples who brought European styles of sociability with them when they immigrated to America

• westerners and southerners

• evangelical Protestants

The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• Lutheranism

• Judiasm

• Roman Catholicism

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

• murder

• income tax evasion

• kidnapping

• conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws

John Dewey can rightly be called the "father of _____."

• Social Darwinism

• progressive education

• evolutionary science

• psychoanalysis

In response to the need to develop greater and greater mass markets for their products, American business in the 1920's relied especially on the new techniques of

• developing a large range of product variation

• price competition

• direct selling through catalogs and door-to-door solicitation

• consumer advertising