| A | B |
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| The Russian Revolution, communist commitment to overthrowing capitalism, and the stifling of dissent during World War I | The Red Scare (1919-early 1920s) |
| The need to get Russia back into World War I and the fear of communism | The U.S. sends troops to intervene in the Russian Revolution on behalf of the Whites against the Reds |
| Wave of strikes after World War II (ex: Boston Police Strike and Seattle General Strike) | The public's growing association of organized labor with radical ideas |
| The Palmer Raids | Radicals such as Emma Goldman were rounded up and deported |
| Fear of being flooded with refugees, the Red Scare, and growing acceptance of eugenics | Immigration restriction of the 1920s |
| The quotas established by the National Origins Act | Marked decreased in immigration, especially from Eastern and Southern Europe until the 1960s |
| Fears of radical ideas, a rapidly changing and modernizing society, and the film The Birth of a Nation | The reemergence and rapid growth of the Ku Klux Klan |
| The David Stephenson Affair | Rapid decline in Klan membership |
| The Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act | Flagrant and widespread violation of the law and rise of organized crime |
| Growing popularity of modern ideas such as those of Freud and Darwin | A rural, Protestant backlash |
| William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, and the polarizing issue of evolution | The Scopes Monkey Trial becomes a major national news story |
| A weariness of the reforms of the Progressive Era and a desire to enjoy peace after World War II | Warren G. Harding's campaign slogan "return to normalcy" strikes a chord and he wins easily in 1920 |
| Republican domination of the 1920s | Pro-business and laissez-faire policies, trickle-down economics, and high tariffs of the 1920s |
| Andrew Mellon's "trickle-down" policies | Widened the gap between rich and poor |
| Warren G. Harding surrounding his administration with old cronies | Scandal-ridden administration highlighted by the Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Governor Calvin Coolidge's handling of the Boston Police Strike | Coolidge was named by the Republicans to be Harding's running mate in 1920 |
| Al Smith's position on prohibition and his Catholic faith was such a divisive issue in the Election of 1928 | Some Southern states voted for a Republican (Hoover) for the first time since Reconstruction |
| The Census of 1920 | 1st time the U.S. was officially an urban nation |
| The need to pacify workers and undercut the strength of unions | Welfare capitalism provides extra benefits for workers such as paid vacations |
| Henry Ford's use of the assembly line and his vision for the Model T. | The automobile becomes affordable for the majority of Americans |
| The automobile industry | Stimulated highway construction, petroleum production, and other related industries |
| The emergence of flappers | Gender norms were challenged |
| Radio | Standardized American culture, and revolutionized advertising, politics, entertainment, sports, and religion |
| The Jazz Singer (1927) | The end of silent films and Hollywood was forever changed |
| Increased leisure time in the 1920s | Increased popularity of sports, movies, and rise of celebrities |
| The alienation and disillusionment of the Lost Generation | The literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemmingway, and Sinclair Lewis who were critical of the materialism and conformity of the 1920s |
| Harlem being a source of pride and a cultural mecca for African-Americans | The Harlem Renaissance (ex: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston) |
| Rising prosperity, new technologies, and the ideas of Sigmund Freud- | Created a new atmosphere of sexual frankness and liberation, especially among the young |
| Resentment against conventional small-town morality | Caused many influential writers of the 1920s to criticize traditional values and search for new moral standards |
| The improved farm efficiency and production of the 1920s | Drove crop prices down and created a rural economic depression |
| Republican pro-business policies | Weakened labor unions and prevented the enforcement of progressive anti-trust legislation |
