Why Was the Red Scare Significant

question 36

Multiple Choice

Why was the Red Scare significant?

• A)It convinced Congress to increase the number of immigrants from Europe.
• B)It caused the downturn of nativism during the postwar period.
• C)It created anti-immigrant hysteria in the wake of the end of the Great War.
• D)It led to a decrease in the Hispanic Catholic population in the later 1920s.
• E)It resulted in the great growth in union memberships over the 1920s.

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