Civil Liberties & Dissent
This 1917 Act made it a crime to interfere with the war effort or military recruitment.
What is the Espionage Act?
This mass movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North began during WWI.
What is the Great Migration?
This radical labor union, also known as the "Wobblies," was targeted by the government for its anti-war stance during WWI
What is the IWW or the Industrial Workers of the World?
This "noble experiment" was ushered in by the 18th Amendment and led to a rise in organized crime.
What is prohibition?
This president’s "Four Freedoms" speech helped justify U.S. involvement in WWII.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
In this 1919 Supreme Court case, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled that speech could be restricted if it presented a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. United States?
This civil rights organization, co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909, spent the 1920s and 30s launching a legal campaign against lynching and the "Jim Crow" system.
What is the NAACP?
This 1935 Act, also known as the Wagner Act, finally guaranteed the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This 1924 Act established a quota system that severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
What is the National Origins Act?
This 1912 election saw a three-way split between Taft, Wilson, and Roosevelt, the latter of whom ran under this "Third Party" banner.
What is the Progressive Party or the Bull Moose Party.
This 1944 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment, citing "military necessity."
What is Korematsu v. United States?
This series of violent race riots occurred in dozens of cities across the U.S. during the summer and fall of 1919.
What is the Red Summer?
This 1932 protest by WWI veterans in D.C. ended in a violent military crackdown under President Hoover.
What is the Bonus Army March?
The 1920s saw a massive rebirth of this hate group, which expanded its targets to include Catholics and Jews.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1941 Executive Order, issued under pressure from A. Philip Randolph, was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination in the defense industry.
What is Executive Order 8802?
These 1919-1920 raids, led by the Attorney General, resulted in the mass arrest and deportation of suspected anarchists and communists.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This WWI-era civil rights leader argued that African Americans should serve in the military to prove their right to equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This specific type of strike, used effectively by the United Auto Workers in 1936, involved workers refusing to leave the factory.
What is a sit down or sit in strike?
This term described the young, urban women of the 1920s who challenged traditional gender norms.
What are Flappers?
At this 1943 meeting in North Africa, FDR and Churchill declared that they would only accept "Unconditional Surrender" from the Axis powers, a move intended to reassure the Soviet Union that the Western Allies would not sign a separate peace treaty.
What is the Casablanca Conference?
This socialist presidential candidate was imprisoned during WWI for giving an anti-draft speech in Canton, Ohio.
Who is Eugene V. Debs
This campaign, started by the Pittsburgh Courier, advocated for victory against fascism abroad and victory against racism at home.
What is the Double V Campaign?
This 1919 strike in a major West Coast city involved 65,000 workers and was the first "General Strike" in U.S. history.
What is the Seattle General Strike?
This movement of Christian conservatives in the 1920s pushed back against "modernist" theology.
What is Fundamentalism?
In his 1944 State of the Union address, FDR proposed this "Second" set of rights, arguing that political freedom was meaningless without economic security.
What is the Economic Bill of Rights?