The "Red Scare" of 1919-1920 Was Provoked by

question 52

Multiple Choice

The "red scare" of 1919-1920 was provoked by

• A) the wartime migration of rural blacks to northern cities.
• B) urban immigrants' resistance to prohibition.
• C) public anger at evolutionary science's challenge to the biblical story of the Creation.
• D) the public's fear that labor troubles were sparked by communist and anarchist revolutionaries.
• E) Russian Communism's threat to American security.

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