Unit 2 First Half 9th Grade

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Which of the events best represents the conflict between traditional beliefs and new scientific modernism? Options: Scopes Trial, Bonus March, Harlem Renaissance, Eugenics Movement

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Scopes Trial

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Which of the following best explains the causes of the Red Summer of 1919? The end of World War I heightened racial tensions due to competition for jobs and housing. The resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the South sparked widespread violence. The Harlem Renaissance encouraged African Americans to resist segregation through protests. African Americans migrated back to the South, leading to conflicts with white residents.

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The end of World War I heightened racial tensions due to competition for jobs and housing.

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Which of the following best explains the cause of the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921? A conflict over labor strikes in the oil industry escalated into racial violence. Racial tensions and false accusations against an African American man led to violence against the Black community. Disputes over land ownership in Oklahoma triggered attacks on Black neighborhoods. A campaign to desegregate public spaces in Tulsa caused a violent backlash.

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Racial tensions and false accusations against an African American man led to violence against the Black community.

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What is the primary goal of communism?

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Ensuring equal sharing of property and resources among all people

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Which of the following best explains the origins of the Red Scare in the United States after World War I?
- Fear of economic collapse following the Great Depression
- Widespread protests against segregation laws in the South
- Concern over the spread of communism after the Russian Revolution
- Public backlash against U.S. involvement in international peacekeeping efforts

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Concern over the spread of communism after the Russian Revolution

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What was a major reason for the Great Migration of African Americans in the early 20th century?

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Economic opportunities in northern cities and escape from Southern racism

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Which of these was NOT a significant factor in causing the Great Depression? Overextension of credit by banks, Failure of crops due to a drought, Significant government regulation of the economy, Increasing wealth gap

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Significant government regulation of the economy

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Which of the following best explains the experience of American women and minority groups during the Great Depression? These groups of Americans were given the most opportunities in New Deal programs, Marginalized groups were hit harder by the Great Depression, They began to migrate because of the expansion of jobs in northern cities and the west., They all lost status as middle-class Americans which they had in the 1920s.

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Marginalized groups were hit harder by the Great Depression

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What problem of the Great Depression was addressed by both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

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Unemployment

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The creation of programs like the Social Security Administration and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) provided:

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Reform - a lasting change to prevent future depressions