AH - Ch 12 Politics of the Roaring 20's

This established the maximum number of immigrants who were allowed into the US from each foreign country.

• Isolationism

• Quota system

• Communism

• Teapot Dome

Although its membership sharply increased as a result of the Red Scare and nativism, its power declined once its criminal activity and racial violence became exposed.

• Ohio gang

• Anarchist

• Corrupt Bargain

• Ku Klux Klan

This is a policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs.

• Isolationism

• Corrupt Bargain

• Quota system

• Communism

This is an economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship.

• Isolationism

• Anarchist

• Communism

• Capitalism

Their radical opposition to any and all forms of government led many with similar beliefs to be harassed, arrested, and deported during the Red Scare.

• Anarchist

• Communism

• Corrupt Bargain

• Teapot Dome

As Attorney General, he sent government agents out on a series of illegal raids to hunt down suspected radicals.

• John L. Lewis

• Calvin Coolidge

• A. Mitchell Palmer

• Warren Harding

As the governor of Massachusetts during the Boston police strike, he opposed the strikers and called out the National Guard to restore order.

• Calvin Coolidge

• A. Mitchell Palmer

• Mitt Romney

• John L. Lewis

As president of the United Mine Workers, he led the miners on a strike that eventually resulted in a significant wage increase.

• Calvin Coolidge

• A. Mitchell Palmer

• Al Cappone

• John L. Lewis

Members of President Harding’s cabinet that would cause a great deal of embarrassment.

• Sacco and Vanzetti

• Teapot Dome

• Ohio gang

• Communism

The most spectacular example of corruption in Harding’s cabinet. Albert B. Falls (Secretary of Interior) became the first American to be convicted of a felony while holding a cabinet post.

• Teapot Dome

• Super Dome

• Teacup Dome

• Corrupt Bargain