Which characteristic of the 1920s is best illustrated by the Red Scare, the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the activities of the Ku Klux Klan?
a. increased nativism
b. belief in unlimited progress
c. growth in humanitarian causes
d. faith in big business
Answer: a. increased nativism
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A) Russian economic alliances. B) reform measures introduced in the Soviet Union. C) Soviet political parties. D) Russian programs of anti-Semitism. E) cultural incentives meant to improve living conditions in Soviet cities.
Which of these is not a reflection of the changes brought by the 1920s' "sexual revolution"?
A) New dances and greater erotic freedom. B) A shift from formal courting to the new custom of casual dating. C) Young people experimenting sexually without contemplating marriage. D) A surge in pornographic lyrics in popular music. E) Female sexuality becoming more openly acknowledged.
The main purpose of the Foreign Miner's Tax law and its amendments of the 1850s was to
a. raise money for the new California state government. b. ensure that foreign miners did not take all their profits outside of California. c. drive foreign miners, especially the Chinese, Mexicans, French, and other nonwhite or Catholic miners, from the gold-mining districts. d. distribute the tax burden more fairly among all miners.
In addition to the Ukraine, what territories remained a part of Russia after the revolution?
a. Finland. b. Caucasus Mountains. c. Poland. d. Prussia. e. Lithuania.