The Roaring Twenties

Which country turned Communist in 1917, causing a Red Scare in the US 

• Germany 
• Great Britain 
• China 
• USSR (Russia) 

Period of hysteria, fearing the Reds were coming to America 

• Red Scare 
• Harlem Renaissance 
• Consumer economy 
• Capitalism 

Post WWI Foreign Policy in America was __________________ in the attempts to not get involved in world affairs.

• Isolationism

• Militarism

• Nationalism

• Globalism

Organization that sought to keep the U.S. free from minorities, Jews and Catholics. “America for Americans”.

• KKK
• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• NAACP

This court case tore the country apart, two immigrants were accused of killing a security guard.

• Ford Trials
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Scopes Trial
• Palmer and Hoover

What were the Palmer Raids?

• Raids against the famous golfer Arnold Palmer.

• Raids conducted against the President of the United States.

• These raids were conduct to try to discover who was a communist, socialist or anarchist. Immigrants deported without trial.

• Al Capone began an assault on the Secretary of State Arnold Palmer.

One way people tried to restrict immigration in the 1920s was by

• Allowing anyone to come to the US

• offering scholarships to immigrants

• setting quotas

• giving immigrants free land

Nativism is prejudice:

• against Native Americans

• against immigrants

• against other religions

favored by Republican presidents and people who like small government

• laissez-faire economics
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Harlem Renaissance
• Temperance Movement

a bribery incident that took place in the United States from 1921 to 1922, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

• laissez-faire economics
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Harlem Renaissance
• Temperance Movement