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What connection can be drawn between World War I and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment?

• Women's contributions to the war effort helped build public support for extending the vote to women.

• The Nineteenth Amendment allowed the government to detain German Americans living in the United States.

• The Nineteenth Amendment repealed Prohibition in order to increase tax revenue to pay for the war.

• Young people's contributions to the war effort helped build public support for lowering the voting age to 18.

The passage of the 18th Amendment had the unintentional effect of

• increasing the popularity of television and motion pictures.

• challenging gender roles as well as the way women were supposed to behave and dress.

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

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

Which statement about the United States economy during the 1920s is true?

• Federal regulation of business was strengthened.

• The purchase of stocks steadily declined.

• Mass production increased the supply and lowered the cost of consumer goods

• Republican Party presidents supported unemployment insurance.

The advertisement of new products such as refrigerators, washing machines, and automobiles and the availability of these items led to increased

• isolation

• consumerism

• education

• teen culture

Which statement BEST explains the importance of the Harlem Renaissance?

• The movement enabled African Americans to dominate local politics in the North.

• The movement brought an end to oppressive Jim Crow laws throughout the South.

• The movement challenged stereotypes and helped to develop a shared cultural identity for African Americans.

• The movement dramatically improved living conditions in tenements in major metropolitan areas of the country.

“Radical Immigrants Deported”

“Bombs Explode on Wall Street”

“Palmer Raids Criticized by Congress”

These post-World War I headlines are most closely associated with the: (SSUSH16a DOK 1)

• Ku Klux Klan

• Scopes Trial

• Red Scare

• Volstead Act

The passage of the immigration acts of 1920 and 1924 indicated that the United States wished to (SSUSH16a DOK 1)

• Play a larger role in international affairs

• Encourage cultural diversity

• Continue the immigration policies followed during most of the 19th century

• Restrict the flow of immigrants

Which factor contributed to the Red Scare in the United States during the 1920s? (SSUSH16a DOK 2)

• The radical nature of the national administration in power

• Germany’s attacks on United States cargo ships

• Success of the Communist Revolution in Russia.

• Widespread hostility toward big business

The Women’s rights movement in the early 20th Century focused its efforts primarily on securing (SSUSH16b DOK 1

• A cabinet position for a woman

• Reform or prisons

• Civil rights for all minorities

• Suffrage for Women

Which amendment does the above poster reference? (SSUSH16b DOK 1) 

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment