Movements
This revival of a Reconstruction-era white supremacist, anti-immigrant, organization followed the release of Birth of a Nation in the 1920s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
A more specific version of fascism, this aggressively militaristic ideology sought conquest for more land, justifying it through a belief in global perpetual race war.
What is Nazism?
Before this law, immigration was (with some exceptions) largely open to anyone who could get to the country, but after it immigrants were subject to quotas determined by national origin.
What is the 1924 Immigration and Naturalization Act?
A historical and literary concept, it was promoted in the years following the Civil War and argued among other things that the Confederacy really did not fight to preserve slavery.
What is "The Lost Cause?"
An organization and then a political party made up primarily of petit bourgeois farmers and shopkeepers, they pushed for bimetalism ("Free Silver") around the turn of the century.
Who are the Populists?
An authoritarian political ideology which holds that the individual is subordinate to national interests, interests which are determined and promoted by the state.
What is fascism?
This Reconstruction era Constitutional amendment guaranteed equal rights under the law regardless of race.
What is the 14th amendment?
European and American countries entered a new phase of this practice, which involved controlling and exploiting smaller nations, in the late 19th century.
What is imperialism?
The Ghost Dance movement involved Native Americans who ritually danced in order to inspire a cultural revival. Its participants were eventually massacred here.
Where is Wounded Knee?
This example of a socialist state, unanticipated by Marx, involved an authoritarian state controlling the means of production "on behalf of" the working class.
What is Soviet communism?
This New Deal era law provided for retirement pensions for all Americans. It also gave everyone a nine-digit number.
What is the Social Security Act?
A legal fiction in which ownership of a single business is shared among many investors.
What is incorporation? (Or a corporation)
The Republican Party promoted this concept, in opposition to slavery, which promoted the virtues of an economy in which workers could sell their labor to any boss.
What is free labor?
What is socialism?
This Civil War era law promoted settlement in the West by offering free land to anyone willing to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
A manufacturing process in which complicated processes were broken down among workers with much simpler tasks along an assembly line.
What is Fordism?
They opposed United States entry into the Second World War, believing it to be a European affair that was none of Americans' business (also: many of them admired fascism).
Who was "America First?"
Who are New Deal liberals?
What are the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Act?
Before the Civil War, the Supreme Court created this concept, which defined the status of the governments of Native American tribes within the U.S.
What are domestic dependent nations?