The 1918 Pandemic
This illness caused a worldwide pandemic during World War I.
Influenza
This economic system features government ownership of factories and major industries.
Communism
Fear of this foreign revolution helped spark the first Red Scare.
Bolshevik/Russian Revolution
Many Black Americans moved North to escape this discriminatory Southern system.
Segregation
This woman wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Louisiana leaders downplayed the pandemic because they believed this aspect of the state would protect them.
The heat
In this economic system, individuals and businesses decide what to produce.
These violent events, after the General Strike, heightened public fear.
Mail bombings
This reason—besides escaping discrimination—also prompted migration to the North and Midwest.
Poor jobs in the South
This suffragist founded The Woman’s Journal and helped lead the AWSA.
Lucy Stone
More U.S. soldiers died from influenza than what during WWI.
Battle wounds
A system where the government ensures everyone has an equal share of wealth reflects this ideology.
Communsim
These dramatic statements stirred panic across the United States.
Newspaper headlines
The drowning of this teenager sparked the Chicago race riot of 1919.
Eugene Williams
Henry Ford used this manufacturing innovation to lower car costs.
Assembly Line
The pandemic infected about this fraction of the world’s population.
1/3
Freedom of speech and open access to information reflect this system, NOT the other.
These 1919 government actions led to thousands of arrests and abuses in the name of fighting communism.
Palmer Raids
More than a thousand of these were destroyed by arson during the Chicago riots.
Homes
KKK membership reached more than this many people in the 1920s.
4 million
The pandemic led to the development of these emergency preparation systems.
Public health response plans
A system where the government controls workers, media, and resource distribution describes this ideology.
Communsim
This attorney general fell out of favor after ordering widespread raids.
Palmer
1919 was called this because of the widespread racial violence across the country.
The Red Summer of 1919
This Black neighborhood, known as “Black Wall Street,” was destroyed during the Tulsa Massacre.
Greenwood District