The Red Scare and Politics of the 1920s

When a government official made money off of allowing a private company to drill on government oil fields, it was called

• Nativism

• Red Scare

• Sacco and Venzetti

• Teapot Dome Scandal

The domestic policy of both Harding and Coolidge presidencies mainly focused on

• Increasing immigration

• Social reform

• Protecting American businesses and economic growth

• becoming more involved in world politics

The main cause of the Red Scare was

• drinkers and bootleggers

• fear of communism

• Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance

• Welfare Reform

What was the time period in the early 1920s when suspected communists and other radicals were arrested due to the fear of the spread of communism.

• The Red Scare

• Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Scopes Trial

• The growth of the Ku Klux Clan

Which president's campaign slogan promised a "Return to Normalcy" for America after the Great War?

• William H. Taft

• Warren G. Harding

• Woodrow Wilson

• Calvin Coolidge

Karl Marx came up with which economic and political theory where there is a classless society where the government equally distributes wealth to everyone and private ownership is not allowed?

• Socialism

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Facism

The suspected link between Communism and Unions caused the power and influence of unions to...

• increase

• decline

• stay the same

SS.912.A.5.2

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• The land of opportunity is not for Russian immigrants.

• If an alien is from Latin America, he or she can be deported.

• Packing vicious aliens like sardines is a serious vioation of human rights.

• Dangerous Communists and anarchists should be sent out of the country.

After World War I, America retreated to a policy of

• militarism

• expansionism

• isolationism

What is nativism

• belief that the government should focus on native people

• distrust of foreign born citizens

• belief that one's culture or race is superior to others