Answer the Following Questions

question 18

Multiple Choice

Answer the following questions :
-Red Scare

• A)A term for anticommunist hysteria that first swept the United States after World War I,and led to a series of government raids on alleged subversives and a suppression of civil liberties.
• B)A series of raids led by Attorney General A.Mitchell Palmer on radical organizations that peaked in January 1920,when federal agents arrested six thousand citizens and aliens and denied them access to legal counsel.
• C)The summer and fall of 1919,in which antiblack riots by white Americans in more than two dozen cities led to hundreds of deaths.So named because of the bloody clashes.The worst occurred in Chicago,in which 38 people were killed (23 blacks,15 whites),537 injured,and 1,000 black families made homeless.
• D)Strategy by American business in the 1920s to keep workplaces free of unions,which included refusing to negotiate with trade unions and requiring workers to sign contracts (known as "yellow dog" contracts)pledging not to join a union.
• E)A system of labor relations that stressed management's responsibility for employees' well-being.
• F)A system of voluntary business cooperation with government.The Commerce Department helped create two thousand trade associations representing companies in almost every major industry.
• G)Nickname for scandal in which Interior Secretary Albert Fall accepted $300,000 in bribes for leasing oil reserves on public land in Wyoming.It was part of a larger pattern of corruption that marred Warren G.Harding's presidency.
• H)Policy emphasizing the connection between America's economic and political interests overseas.Business would gain from diplomatic efforts on its behalf,while the strengthened American economic presence overseas would give added leverage to American diplomacy.
• I)New forms of borrowing,such as auto loans and installment plans,that flourished in the 1920s but helped trigger the Great Depression.
• J)The city in southern California that became synonymous with with the American film indusrtry in the 1920s.
• K)A young woman of the 1920s who defied conventional standards of conduct by wearing short skirts and makeup,freely spending the money she earned on the latest fashions,dancing to jazz,and flaunting her liberated lifestyle.
• L)The exercise of popular cultural influence abroad,as American radio and movies became popular around the world in the 1920s,transmitting American cultural ideals overseas.
• M)The first federally funded health-care legislation that provided federal funds for medical clinics,prenatal education programs,and visiting nurses.
• N)Founded in 1896,the principal national volunteer organization composed of middle-class African American women.Raised money for causes,campaigned for women's suffrage,and raised awareness of racial injustice (such as lynching,segregated facilities,and disfranchisement),among other activities.
• O)The ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol that went into effect in January 1920.Also called "prohibition," the amendment was repealed in 1933.
• P)Officially the National Prohibition Act,passed by Congress in 1920 to enforce the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment banning the sale of alcohol.
• Q)An organization formed during the Red Scare to protect free speech rights.
• R)The 1925 trial of John Scopes,a biology teacher in Dayton,Tennessee,for violating his state's ban on teaching evolution.The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.
• S)A 1924 law limiting annual immigration from each country to no more than 2 percent of that nationality's percentage of the U.S.population as it had stood in 1890.The law severely limited immigration,especially from Southern and Eastern Europe.
• T)Secret society that first undertook violence against African Americans in the South after the Civil War but was reborn in 1915 to fight the perceived threats posed by African Americans,immigrants,radicals,feminists,Catholics,and Jews.
• U)A flourishing of African American artists,writers,intellectuals,and social leaders in the 1920s,centered in an area of the same name in New York City.
• V)Unique American musical form,developed in New Orleans and other parts of the South before World War I.Musicians of this musical form developed an ensemble improvisational style.
• W)A Harlem-based group,led by charismatic,Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey,that arose in the 1920s to mobilize African American workers and champion black separatism.
• X)The idea that people of African descent,in all parts of the world,have a common heritage and destiny and should cooperate in political action.

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