Day 3: Red Scare/ Scopes Part A/B Practice

Looking at the map, why would Americans be worried about the new immigrants spreading Communism?

Select one country where the New Immigrants were from.

What is the main idea of the newspaper clipping?

• Quotas

• Red Scare

• Modernism Ideals

• Darwinism

Which part supports the answer to the 1st question?

What was the immigration quota?

• The immigration quota is a limit on the number of immigrants allowed to enter a country.
• The immigration quota is a type of visa for tourists.
• The immigration quota is a program for refugee resettlement.
• The immigration quota is a tax on immigrants.

What caused the desire for immigrant quotas?

Select THREE

• Red Scare

• Job Competition

• Scopes Trial

• Nativism

Part A

What is the main idea of this excerpt from the Scopes Trial?

• The role of the government in regulating science.
• The historical context of the Scopes Trial.
• The conflict between science and religion regarding the teaching of evolution.
• The importance of religious education in schools.

Part B

Which line from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Do you claim that everything in the Bible should be taken literally?”
  

• “I believe what the Bible says. I don’t think I’m required to explain it scientifically.”

• "We are trying to stop ignorance from controlling education.”

• “The trial became a symbol of the struggle between modernism and fundamentalism in 1920s America.”