Civil Liberties
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Unions
Crime and Punishment
Marcus Garvey
100
In 1924, a new law banned all immigrants from this continent, resulting in a declared national day of mourning in Japan.
What is Asia?
100
The economic theory that believed to result in people sharing in the wealth produced by their labor.
What is Communism?
100
This practice by unions involves workers walking away from their jobs.
What is a strike?
100
These two Italian immigrants were tried and convicted in a controversial robbery/murder case in 1927
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
100
Garvey was born and later buried in this country.
What is Jamaica?
200
Prejudice against Jewish people, including refusing to rent to Jews or colleges limiting the number of Jewish students.
What is anti-Semitism?
200
Between 1920 and 1921, 100,000 of these went bankrupt.
What are businesses?
200
Name one of the two improvements sought by "bread and butter" unionism.
What are improved wages and working conditions?
200
This group of workers had a controversial strike in 1919 which involved public safety
What is the Boston Police Force?
200
Garvey was convicted and jailed for this crime (related to the sale of stock in his steamship company).
What is mail fraud?
300
In 1920, a group of pacifists and social activists founded this group to protect freedom of speech and defense of Sacco and Vanzetti.
What is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
300
One of the two Congressional Acts that significantly decreased immigration during the 1920's.
What is the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924?
300
Nickname for Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
What are Wobblies?
300
This group gained a revival after Leo Frank's death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment
Who is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This was the name given to Garvey's plan to help American of African descent return to Africa and set up their own country there.
What is the Back-to-Africa Movement?
400
Over 30 states passed these laws which made stirring up opposition to the government a crime.
What are Sedition Laws?
400
As prices went up, the value of the dollar shrank by more than 15 percent a year. Resulting in...
What is inflation?
400
In 1919, this Governor and later president fired all striking Boston policemen and hired new ones.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
400
A mob seized him out of a Washington jail, hanged him from a bridge, and used his body for target practice.
What is a Wobbly?
400
This was the steamship company. Hint: The opposite of the Titanic's company.
What is Black Star Line?
500
In 1921, the number of new immigrants was capped at this amount.
What is 375,000?
500
On September 16, 1920, a bomb exploded in this New York financial district. The bombers appeared to be targeting capitalist like Rockefeller and political figures.
What is Wall Street?
500
This union of African Americans, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, were workers from this industry.
What is the railroad industry?
500
This Attorney General and his assistant, J.Edgar Hoover, were responsible unwarranted raids and arrests of over 6,000 "radicals".
Who is Mitchell Palmer?
500
Garvey's weekly newspaper.
What is Negro World?