Quiz: Chapter 31

The Red Scare of 1919–1920 was fueled by fear of:

• a. Bolshevism and radical anarchism
• b. German invasion
• c. Japanese expansion
• d. Mexican revolution

Warren G. Harding won the presidency in 1920 on the promise of:

• a. "Return to normalcy"
• b. "New Freedom"
• c. "Square Deal"
• d. "New Nationalism"

The Teapot Dome scandal involved:

• a. Bribery over leased federal oil reserves
• b. Vote fraud in the 1920 election
• c. Illegal alcohol sales by a senator
• d. Insider trading on Wall Street

The National Origins Act of 1924 was designed to:

• a. Restrict immigration through discriminatory national quotas
• b. Encourage unlimited immigration
• c. Ban alcohol nationwide
• d. Grant women the right to vote

The Eighteenth Amendment led directly to:

• a. Prohibition of alcohol nationwide
• b. Women's suffrage
• c. Immigration restriction
• d. A federal income tax

Chicago gangster Al Capone built his criminal empire around:

• a. Bootlegging illegal alcohol
• b. Selling stolen automobiles
• c. Counterfeiting currency
• d. Smuggling immigrants

Henry Ford's moving assembly line most directly transformed the production of:

• a. Automobiles
• b. Radios
• c. Textiles
• d. Steel

The Harlem Renaissance was primarily a flowering of:

• a. Black literary, artistic, and musical achievement
• b. Southern agricultural reform
• c. Immigrant labor organizing
• d. Women's suffrage activism

The Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925 centered on the teaching of:

• a. Evolution in public schools
• b. Prohibition law
• c. Immigration policy
• d. Communist theory

Clarence Darrow served as the defense attorney for:

• a. John Scopes
• b. Al Capone
• c. Sacco and Vanzetti
• d. Eugene V. Debs

The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, guaranteed:

• a. Women's right to vote
• b. A federal income tax
• c. Prohibition of alcohol
• d. Direct election of senators

"Flappers" were young women of the 1920s known for:

• a. Flouting Victorian conventions with bobbed hair and short skirts
• b. Leading the temperance movement
• c. Organizing the Red Scare raids
• d. Working exclusively in agriculture