American Pageant Ch 31 Reading Quiz [Unit 7]

The red scare of 1919–1920 was provoked by

• the strict enforcement of prohibition laws.

• evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation

• the public's association of labor violence with its fear of revolution.

Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did which of the following?

• denounce “radical” foreign ideas.

• condemn “un-American” life-styles.

• experience a decade of economic difficulties.

• shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries.

• restrict immigration.

Big Business used the red scare to

• secure passage of laws making unions illegal.

• break the railroad strike of 1919

• break the backs of fledgling unions.

The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated which of the following

• fundamentalist religion.

• opposition to birth control.

• opposition to prohibition.

• repression of pacifists.

• anti-Catholicism.

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

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

• new immigration laws passed in 1924.

• race riots.

Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of

• the desire to halt immigration from Latin America.

• a desire to rid the country of the quota system.

• the nativist belief that northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans.

• increased migration of blacks to the North.

”Cultural pluralists” like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that

immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American “melting pot.”

• true

• false

The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against Asians

• true

• false

Answer explanation

Southern and eastern Europeans.

The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s discriminated directly against

• ethnic diversity.

• the lack of a reform impulse in America.

• the generally fair treatment that workers received from their employers.

• the hostility of the Catholic Church to social reform.

Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from

• women

• urban easterners

• westerners.

• southerners.