Red Scare DOL

What was the primary reason for the raids described in this excerpt?

• To prevent workers from joining labor organizations

• To block civil rights advocates from staging public protests

• To suppress the teaching of evolution in colleges

• To halt the spread of communists ideas by radicals

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Cartoons such as this one took the position that deportation was necessary because -

• assimilation programs in the United States had been unsuccessful

• economic decline had increased the competition for jobs

• communists were infiltrating the United States

• political machines had too much power in urban areas

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

• Increased use of credit by U.S. consumers

• development of new forms of popular entertainment

• decline of public support for Progressive reforms

• conflict between modernism and traditionalism

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Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that -

• people in lower classes were not capable of economic success

• immigration weakened national unity

• the government should take responsibility for the well - being of people

• poverty could be eradicated through increased economic regulation

What was a result of the social problems presented in this 1917 political cartoon?

• Government leaders introduced health-care reform laws.

• Lobbyists focused attention on the power of corporates monopolies.

• Women worked to improve conditions in tenement houses,

• Progressives worked to ratify a prohibition amendment.

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