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Snapshot 6

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1)The Red Scare following World War I was caused primarily by

a)

the influenza outbreak.

b)

fear of airborne diseases.

c)

the actions of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy.

d)

fear of communist infiltration of the United States.

2.

Which of these was a DIRECT result of the Prohibition movement in the United States?

a)

passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution

b)

passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution

c)

a high incidence of alcohol-related industrial accidents

d)

the President was against alcohol, so an amendment was

passed

3.

The League of Nations

a)

was supported by President Wilson, but rejected by the

Senate.

b)

was created to stop the spread of communism following World War II

c)

was established prior to World War I but proved incapable of preventing the war.

d)

had widespread popular support in the US but was rejected

by President Wilson.

4.

Which of these best describes the term "flapper" in

U.S. history?

a)

women who worked in factories during World War II

b)

women who campaigned for the abolition of slavery

c)

women who wore the new bathing suits to American beaches; referencing how the suits flapped in the wind.

d)

women of the 1920s who listened to jazz, wore short hair and skirts, and challenged standards of behavior for women

5.

The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the

early-1920s

a)

was the first trial heard in the Supreme Court regarding

political appointees.

b)

was the first criminal hearing held in the U.S. Supreme

Court that involved murder.

c)

showed that religious fundamentalists were losing political power after World War I

d)

proved that there was severe social and judicial bias against immigrants in the United States.

6.

Large numbers of African Americans left the south in the early-1900s to escape discrimination, racial segregation, and Jim Crow laws in a movement that later became known as

a)

The White Flight.

b)

The Final Solution.

c)

The Great Migration.

d)

The Urban Revolution.

7.

William Simmons capitalized on the rampant anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and nativism of the 1920s to revive which group that terrorized its victims through a combination of pageantry, costumes, and violence?

a)

the Ku Klux Klan

b)

the Republican Party

c)

Carpet Baggers

d)

the Aryan Brotherhood

8.

Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of

Versailles after World War I?

a)

The Senate would not support America's participation in the League of Nations.

b)

The Senate believed the treaty did not punish Germany

enough.

c)

The Senate thought the treaty did not have the power to to prevent secret alliances.

d)

The Senate could not agree on military disarmament levels.

9.

The Fourteen Points reflected President Woodrow Wilson's belief that-

a)

intervention in the affairs of other nations were never

justifiable

b)

travel among nations should be regulated by an international organization

c)

no country should be allowed to spend more on defense than

any other country

d)

cooperation among international leaders was essential to

maintaining world peace

10.

During the 1920s, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were most closely identified with the-

a)

increased use of credit by U.S. consumers

b)

development of new forms of popular entertainment

c)

decline of public support for Progressive reforms

d)

conflict between modernism and traditionalism