SSUSH16: Roaring 20s

The Red Scare following World War I was caused primarily by

• the influenza outbreak.

• fear of airborne diseases

• the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy

• fear of communist infiltration of the United States.

Women in the United States were MOST affected by which amendment?

• the Nineteenth Amendment

• the Thirteenth Amendment

• the Twenty-first Amendment

• the Twenty-fourth Amendment

The creation of Prohibition had the unintentional effect of

• increasing the popularity of television and motion pictures.

• causing increased popularity of radical groups such as the Ku Klux Klan.

• causing people to turn to ‘harder’ drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

• creating a network of organized crime that illegally supplied people with alcohol.

This photograph represents an opinion that

• opposes the income tax.

• supports the Civil Rights Act.

• supports women's voting rights.

• opposes the prohibition of alcohol.

Prohibition restricted the sale, manufacture, and distribution of

• foreign foods

• cigarettes

• alcohol

• drugs

What international crisis was a major factor in the "First Red Scare" in the United States in the early 20th century?

• the Russian Revolution

• the end of World War II

• the Spanish American War

• the construction of the Berlin Wall

This cartoon from 1933 represents FDR's promise to

• end the era of Prohibition.

• start the era of Prohibition.

• have Congress fund bottling plants.

• build more breweries in the United States.

What group was revived during the 1910s, speaking out against communists, immigrants, Catholics, Jews, and African-Americans?

• Nativists

• Ku Klux Klan

• Know Nothings

• Anti-Saloon League

Which event is the BEST example of the growing anti-immigrant sentiment that spread throughout the United States in the 1920s?

• the Scopes Trial

• the "Gentlemen's Agreement"

• the passage of the Volstead Act

• the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Which American led a series of raids following World War I that resulted in more than 500 foreign citizens being deported from the United States?

• President Woodrow Wilson

• General John J. Pershing

• Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson

• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer