17.2 Postwar Issues

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Unreasoned fear of things or people seen as foreign or strange is:

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Xenophobia

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What was the "Red Scare?"

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Fear that communism would overtake the country

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What were the Palmer Raids?

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Fear of Communists/Socialists/Anarchists led to unconstitutional raids on suspects.

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These Italian immigrants were found guilty on little evidence and did not receive a fair trial.

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Nativists feared unchecked _______________.

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immigration

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Besides African-Americans, what other groups did the Ku Klux Klan target with words and violence? Options: Veterans, Jews and Republicans, Catholics, economists and Canadians, Jews, Protestants and all foreign born, Jews, Catholics and all foreign born

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Jews, Catholics and all foreign born

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What was the goal of the 1921 Quota Act?

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To sharply cut European immigration to the U.S.

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What did the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 do?

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Granted citizenship to 125,000 Native Americans.

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Workers striking for better conditions were often labeled as what?

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Revolutionary Communists

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Leader of the United Mine Workers, who called on all miners to stop working:

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John L. Lewis