Political
Russia (the Russian Revolution).
In addition to immigrant groups, which two racial groups were often discriminated against?
Asians and African Americans.
When someone doesn't have a job, they are...
Unemployed.
Who form the members of a union?
Workers.
Which group of people are nativists against?
Immigrants.
What is a point of view favoring extreme change, especially in social or economic structures.
Radicalism.
Which two religious groups were often discriminated against during this period?
Jewish and Catholics.
What is the transition from wartime to peacetime called?
Demobilization.
A common tactic used by unions to force a company to negotiate with them.
This city experienced one of these at the hands of their police force in 1919.
A strike.
Boston.
What did the quota system do?
Lowered the number of immigrants from each country.
This called for public ownership of the means of production, creating a classless society in which all people shared equally in the wealth produced by their labor.
Communism.
Whose movement raised the question of whether or not African Americans should create a separate or integrated society? What was the name of the movement?
Marcus Garvey's Back to Africa Movement.
What is a decline in economic activity and prosperity known as?
Recession.
A general strike is when...
Workers in all industries in a region go on strike (stop going to work).
What did the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) do?
Protect freedom of speech for unpopular ethnic/racial/cultural groups.
The Palmer Rids targeted this vague category of people.
Subversives.
The gravest of race riots in the 1919 occurred in this city, resulting in 38 dead and 500 injured.
Chicago.
The rise of bankruptcy, loss of land, crime, inflation, and unemployment were all common characteristics of...
The 1920 Recession.
Middle class citizens turned against striking workers, because...
of the mounting fear of chaos and violence.
What is the name of the act that reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the country per year to 164,000?
Immigration Act of 1924.
What was the postwar fear of radicals called?
The Red Scare (Red was slang for communist).
What started the Chicago race riots?
A black swimmer had drifted into the white section of Lake Michigan.
The reduction of a currency's value is called...
Inflation.
How did the Supreme Court weaken unions (there are three major ways)?
Restricting the right to boycott anti-union businesses, declaring a child-labor law unconstitutional, and rejecting a law that would have established a minimum-wage for women.
What is the importance of the lynching of a Jewish man named Leo Frank?
It spurred the revival of the KKK.