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What was another term for communists in the U.S. after WWI?
"Reds"
Which group of Americans was part of the cause of unemployment in the years after WWI?
Returning WWI veterans.
What is the term for when government officials engage in activity that goes beyond the limits of their power?
An abuse of power
What is the term for people who opposed any and all forms of government?
People who oppose any and all forms of government are called anarchists.
What is the term for the period in U.S. history when many Americans feared a communist take over?
The Red Scare.
What did many Americans fear Communists, Socialists and Anarchists were plotting to overthrow in the years after WWI?
What is the United States government
Which group called for worldwide-workers revolution to seize private property--factories, farms, mines, oilfields--from the wealthy.
communist
In the years after WW I, there was a growing suspicion of foreign-born people. What is the term suspicion of foreign-born people
The term for a suspicion of foreign-born people is nativism.
Which group was excluded from most unions n the 1920's? This was one reason union membership declined from 5 million to 3.5 million in postwar America.
Who are African Americans
In the years after WWI, many Americans thought it was best to pull away from world affairs and instead focus on issues in the U.S. What is the term for - pulling away from world affairs?
isolationism
What type of government is associated with communist societies, and with the U.S and other free societies?
communism is associated with dictatorship, and the U.S. and other free societies are associated with democracy.
What is the name of the economic system used in the United States? Who has considerable control over the system?
What is capitalism; who are private individuals.
What set a limit on how many immigrants from each country could enter the United States every year?
When this policy was revised in 1924, Europeans who members of which two religious groups found in difficult to enter the U.S.?
The quota system; Roman Catholics and Jews from Europe.
What is the term for people in favor of revolutionary change? What are three groups that called for revolutionary change?
Radicals; communists, socialists, and anarchists.
Which group revived and engaged in bigotry, racial violence and terrorism in the years after WWI?
Name two targets of hate crimes by this group?
the Klu Klux Klan; Blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics, immigrants, and union leaders.
What improvement in working conditions did steelworkers gain as a result of a strike, and a 1923 report that revealed the harsh conditions in steel mills?
Steelworkers were given an eight-hour day.
What two things did Attorney General Palmer believe the communists would replace "private life" with?
He believed that the communists would replace "private life" with dictatorship and government control of the economy.
Which group supported government control over property, but opposed a world-wide workers revolution to seize private property?
Who are socialists.
What is the term for the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality? Who trampled on these rights in the years after WWI?
What are civil rights; attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer and the U.S. government.
Which group suffered as a result of nativism?
Immigrants to the U.S.
In the years after WWI, Boston police officers went on strike for a living wage. What is a living wage?
A wage needed to keep a person or family out of poverty.
People from which three parts of the world impacted by the quota system?
What are people from eastern Europe, southern Europe and Japan.
On the years after WWI, Boston police officers went on strike, because the cost of living had doubled since their last pay raise. What does the cost of living mean?
The cost of living means the average cost of the basic necessities of life.
In a free society like the U.S.,who has considerable power?
Private individuals (the people)
Which goal of communism did attorney general Palmer when he said that communists want “to usurp (take by force) property that they have not earned”?
The communist goal of a worldwide workers-revolution to seize private property.