Explain What Group Stood For 100 % 'Americanism' During The 1920's

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The 18th Amendment, which launched the Prohibition in January 1920, banned the making, selling, and transportation of alcoholic drinks. By 1930, ten million women were working for a paid job. These two changes in American life caused some people, specifically men for the latter change due to a fear of job competition, to wish to return to the good old days.

3. What group stood for 100% "Americanism" during the 1920's?

The Ku Klux Klan stood for "100 percent Americanism" during the 1920s.

4. List any two groups that were hated by the group in question 3.

The Roman Catholic Church and foreign –born people (ex. African Americans) were hated by the Ku Klux Klan.

5. Americans not only reacted with fear about changes inside the country at this time, but they reacted even more strongly against changes that occurred elsewhere in the world. What event occurred in Nov. 1917 that frightened Americans?

The Bolshevik Revolution, which was when Aleksander Kerensky's liberal-democratic government was taken over by radical socialists (Bolsheviks), led by Vladimir Lenin, occurred in November 1917.

6. What was the goal of the Third communist International in 1919?

The goal of the Third Communist International was to make revolution by Communists occur globally.

7. Who lead the communists?
a. Josef Stalin b. Tsar
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