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"Then he discovered the annex to the party. The boys and girls disappeared occasionally, and he remembered rumors of their drinking together from hippocket flasks. He tiptoed round the house, and in each of the dozen cars waiting in the street he saw the points of light from cigarettes, from each of them heard high giggles. He wanted to denounce them but (standing in the snow, peering round the dark corner) he did not dare. He tried to be tactful. When he had returned to the front hall he coaxed the boys, “Say, if any of you fellows are thirsty, there’s some dandy ginger ale.” “Oh! Thanks!” they condescended. He sought his wife, in the pantry, and exploded, “I’d like to go in there and throw some of those young pups out of the house!" - Excerpt from the novel Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 1922 Using the passage, which term contributed the LEAST to creating a "jazz age" in the 1920's? Responses A FlappersFlappers B Red ScareRed Scare C Harlem RenaissanceHarlem Renaissance D Mass production of the automobile
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The term that contributed the LEAST to creating a "jazz age" in the 1920s is **B. Red Scare**.
While the Red Scare did influence American society during the 1920s, it was primarily related to anti-communism and fears of radicalism, rather than the cultural and social changes that characterized the Jazz Age, such as the rise of flappers, the Harlem Renaissance, and the mass production of automobiles, all of which had direct implications on the music, fashion, and lifestyles of that era.
While the Red Scare did influence American society during the 1920s, it was primarily related to anti-communism and fears of radicalism, rather than the cultural and social changes that characterized the Jazz Age, such as the rise of flappers, the Harlem Renaissance, and the mass production of automobiles, all of which had direct implications on the music, fashion, and lifestyles of that era.