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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.

Prohibition restricted the sale, manufacture, and distribution of

• foreign foods

• cigarettes

• alcohol

• drugs

How did World War I affect support for the women’s voting movement?

• The war had little impact on women since the war was fought only by men.

• The war hurt the movement because most women were too busy supporting the war effort to rally and protest.

• The war helped the movement because many women felt they deserved equal rights for having supported the war effort.

• The war helped the movement because Americans overseas learned that women had voting rights in many other countries.

In the era after World War I and before the Great Depression, American suburbs began to grow rapidly because of

• increased use of airplanes.

• invention of electric lights.

• mass production of automobiles.

• greater availability of information.

Henry Ford's most noteworthy contribution to industry is the

• invention of the computer.

• invention of buying cars on credit.

• innovation of "interchangeable parts."

• perfection of the assembly line process of production.

This music originated at the turn of the 20th century, became synonymous with the Harlem Renaissance, grew steadily in popularity through the start of the Great Depression, and is considered a uniquely American art form

• Jazz

• Salsa

• Bluegrass

• Rock and Roll

The 1920s saw immense changes in popular culture because of the two new technologies of

• telephones & telegraphs

• motion pictures & radios

• microphones and antennas.

• phonographs and televisions.

Langston Hughes is MOST associated with the

• Lost Generation.

• Harlem Renaissance.

• Muckraker movement.

• Civil Rights Movement.