20s Number4

What was the Red Scare?

• fear of the spread of wealth
• fear of the spread of Communism
• fear of the spread of Capitalism 
• fear of job competition

What did the Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924 and 1929 do?

• Increased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
• Decreased the amount of immigrants allowed in the US
• Outlawed all immigration
• Only allowed immigrants from Russia

Immigration restrictions enacted in the 1920s primarily targeted people from which regions?

• Southern & Eastern Europe and Asia
• Northern & Western Europe
• Latin and South America
• Northern Africa and Australia

During the Red Scare, Americans often linked __________ with radicalism.

• workers
• criminals
• immigrants
• Progressives

An Anti-immigration sentiment (feeling or fear) is called

• Fundamentalism
• Nativism
• Communism
• Modernism

Who were the Palmer Raids meant to find and root out?

• Anarchists
• Communists
• Socialists
• All of the above

Eugenics, the attempt to scientifically improve the human race through breeding of ‘gifted’ races, is connected to which of the following?

• Nativism
• Corruption
• Organized crime
• Teapot Dome Scandal

One reason for US fears of communism in the 1920's was that

• millions of Bolsheviks were migrating to the US
• the Bolsheviks had taken over Russia during World War I
• a Bolshevik army was sailing to the US
• Bolshevik spies were found in the US government

The fear of communism taking over the US during the 1920's was called the

• Red Menace
• Bolshevik Revolution
• Red Scare
• Palmer Revolt

One of the reasons the KKK revitalized during the 1920's was

• the start of the civil rights movement in the South
• the increasing role of black figures in society
• the large numbers of immigrants coming into the US
• the increasing role of women in society