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Question 11 • OK-Oklahoma History

Which of the following best describes why the Socialist Party disintegrated in Oklahoma and around the US in the early 1920s?

Answer

Socialist leader Eugene Debs was asked to join the Democratic ticket as vice-president.

The party’s leader, William Jennings Bryan, failed to win the party’s presidential nomination.

Socialists became more interested in supporting the urban labor movement than agrarian reform.

Many Socialists were labeled “disloyal” and “un-American” during World War I, and many were targeted for arrest.

Explanation

During World War I, the U.S. government and public often treated antiwar Socialists as disloyal or un-American. Many were targeted under wartime laws and faced arrest or repression, which weakened Socialist organizations and contributed to their decline in the early 1920s. The choice about Eugene Debs joining the Democratic ticket is incorrect; Debs remained a Socialist and ran for president from prison in 1920.

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