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15 Cards in this Set
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Red Scare
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During this time the Government took harsh actions against both anarchists and communists. Thousands of radicals were arrested and jailed. and many foreigners were deported, or expelled from the country.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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Two men who were arrested for robbery and murder in 1920. The two men admitted being anarchists but insisted they had commited no crime.
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Emergency Quota Act
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This act,which was passed in 1921, set up a quota system that allowed only a certain number of people from each country to enter the United States.
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Jones Act
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granted American citizenship to Puerto Ricans in 1917.
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Scopes Trial
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The trial of man named John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, who was arrested for teaching evolution to his class becaused it was banned and he was teaching it anyway.
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Ku Klux Klan
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In 1915, a group of white men in Georgia declared the rebirth of the K.K.K. The new Klan had a broader aim: to preserve the U.S. for white, native-born Protestants. The new Klan waged a campaign not only against African Americans, but also against immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews.
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Marcus Garvey
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Became one of the most popular black leaders. He started the first widespread black nationalist movement in the U.S. He also organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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Herbert Hoover
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The Secretary of Commerce. In 1928, since President Coolidge was not running for reelection, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination.
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Alfred E. Smith
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A former governor of New York, who was chosen as the democratic candidate to run for President in 1928 against Herbert Hoover.
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Company Union
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Labor organizations that were actually controlled by management in the 1920s.
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Sabotage
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The secret destruction of property or interference with work in factories.
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Anarchist
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person who opposes organized government.
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Deport
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expel from a country
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Nativism
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antiforeign belief opposed to immigration.
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Quota System
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system that limited immigration by allowing only a certain number of people from each country to immigrate to the U.S.
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