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Ch 24 Section 1 Social Turmoil

Ch 24 Section 1 Social Turmoil

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Ch 24: 1920s

Section 1: Social (Social Turmoil)

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The Red Scare

Belief that communists, anarchists, and other radicals

are a threat to the US

Actual danger was notreal

A. Mitchell Palmer (Attorney General) and J. Edgar

Hoover (Deputy General) arrested more than 10,000
people

Government raided headquarters of suspicious groups
Any immigrants arrested were deported

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Multiple Choice

The Red Scare focused on which of the following groups of people?

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Communists

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African-Americans

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Republicans

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Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

2 Italian immigrants and anarchists accused of

murdering 2 men during a robbery in Massachusetts

Littleevidence to prove guilty, but were still convicted in

1920

Many Americans called for the death penalty
Despite other trials Sacco and Vanzetti were executed

in 1927

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Multiple Choice

The Sacco and Vanzetti trials were most similar to which of the following events?

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WW II

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The Red Scare

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American Imperialism

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Labor Issues

Sept 1919: 350,000 steel workers go on strike - 8

hour work day, better wages

Sept 1919 entire Boston police force goes on strike

Governor Calvin Coolidge calls out the National Guard

All police officers were fired when strike ended

A. Philip Randolph began to organize railroad

workers and union grew in the 1930s

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Multiple Choice

Why did labor union numbers decline in the 1920s?

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The removal of tenements led to decreases in numbers

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Increases in pay and decreases in hours led to lower numbers

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Unsuccessful strikes led to lower numbers

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Racial Unrest

More than 70 African-American are lynched in the South

Great Migration increasing numbers of African Americans in Northern
cities

1919 (Detroit): close to 40 people killed, 500 injured during riots in the
city

1921 (Tulsa): Whites attack African-American neighborhood
(Greenwood)
Estimated 300 African-American deaths, 800 injured, Over 35 city blocks of
building destroyed, 6000 held in convention center

Marcus Garvy: Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Support “back to Africa movement,” African-American pride, businesses, education

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a sign of racial unrest during the 1920s?

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Lynching in the South

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Violence in cities like Detroit and Tulsa

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Increases in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Porters Union

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Ch 24: 1920s

Section 1: Social (Social Turmoil)

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