1920s

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Which amendment to the US Constitution began the Prohibition Era?

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Independent women of the 1920s who cut their hair short, work makeup and lipstick and wore short skirts were known as

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flappers

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Which group's activities reflected a pattern of anti-immigrants in the US during the 1920s and anti-African Americans?

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Ku Klux Klan

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What was a major result of Prohibition in the United States during the 1920s?

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Increase in organized crime

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During the 1920's, the palmer raids, the immigration quota acts, and Sacco and Vanzetti resulted from: Prejudice towards African Americans, Fear of the KKK, The fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas like communism (Red Scare), the need to strengthen national defense

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The fear that American values were threatened by radical ideas like communism (Red Scare)

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Which action is an example of nativism in the 1920s? Options: provision of credit to farmers, efforts to improve living conditions for Native American Indians, passage of laws restricting immigration and deporting them, widespread violation of prohibition laws

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passage of laws restricting immigration and deporting them

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A study of the "flappers" of the 1920's would indicate that

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some women wanted to become more independent and gain more rights (voting) through the 19th amendment

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_______ illustrate the anti-immigration feelings of the 1920's because they were executed for a robbery on very, very thin evidence.

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Anti-Immigrant Attitude (no immigrants)

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Nativism

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The fear of a communist and anarchist takeover of the US during the 1920's became known as the

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Red Scare