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contributed to widespread racial unrest |
postwar economic turmoil |
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many people blamed______ for taking their jobs |
blacks |
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combined to produce violence |
frustration and violence |
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the worst violence occured in |
chicago |
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disillusioned some blacks who felt their wartime contributions had been for nothing |
race riots |
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experienced a surge in membership after the war, and in 1919 launched a new campaign for a federal law against lynching |
NAACP |
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since the late 1800s, many Americans accused ________ of importing socialist and communist ideas and had blamed them for labor unrest |
immigrants |
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the strikes of 1919 fueled the fears the _______ or ___ might sieze power |
Communist or "Reds" |
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this led to nation wide panic known as the |
Red Scare |
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one of these bombs damaged the home of US attorney General ________ |
Palmer |
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Palmer established a special division within the Justice Dept. the ______ ______ ______ or now the _____ ______ ______ |
General Intelligence Division or FBI today |
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Palmer ignored _____ _____ or suspects |
civil liberties |
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officers entered homes without |
search warrants |
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greatly influenced peoples attitudes during the 20s |
Red Scare |
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Jan 1920 nearly 30 states passed ____ ____ making it illlegal to join groups advocating revolution |
sedition laws |
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many linked ______ with immigrants which led to calls to limit immigration |
radicalism |
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ran on a platform of progressive ideas |
democrats (cox) |
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republicans called for a return to _____ agruing that the country needd to return to the days before Progressive Era reforms |
normalcy ( harding) |
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reflected the prejudices and fears of this era |
sacco vanzetti case |
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people who oppose all forms of govt |
anarchist |
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italians arrested and executed before being proved they commited murder |
sacco and vanzetti |
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group that wanted to restrict immigration |
KKK |
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founded new kkk in atl. |
simmons |
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harding signed the ________________ which restricted annual admission to the US by ethnic group |
Emergency quota act |
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made immigraton rescrition a permanent policy |
national origins act |
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funded irrigation projects in the SW and led to creation of large farms |
Newlands reclamation act |