The First Red Scare & Misc. Questions from the 1920s

What was the Red Scare?

• A time when people were afraid of anarchism, communism, and socialism

• When people were afraid of the color red

• Sacco and Vanzetti trial

• Post-WWI fear of Germans

Nativism

• Liked immigrants

• Liked wealthy

• Disliked immigrants favored native born

• Favored Native American Indians

The fear of a communist takeover of the US during the 1920s became known as the...

• Great Depression

• Red Scare

• Bolshevik Doom

• Communist Wave

A Russian communist during the 1920s was known as a...

• Menshevik

• Bear

• Bolshevik

• Trotskyite

A leader in trying to capture & deport as many communists as possible during 1919 & 1920 was...

• Warren G. Harding

• John D. Rockefeller

• Vladimir Lenin

• A. Mitchell Palmer

The government of what country was overthrown in 1917 and turned into a Communist country?

• Russia
• Austria-Hungary
• Germany
• England

Who were the Palmer Raids meant to find and root out?

• Democrats

• Communists

• African Americans

• All of the above

What type of intimidation continued in the South? 

• lynchings of Mexican Americans
• lynchings of Chinese Americans
• lynchings of African Americans
• lynchings of Catholics and Jews

What group saw a revival in the 1920s? Where did it spread? 

• League of Suffragettes  -- Northern and Western U.S
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union -- Southern and Eastern U.S.
• Knights of Labor -- Southern and Western U.S.
• Ku Klux Klan -- Northern and Western U.S.

After WW 1, what factors contributed to racial tension in northern cities? 

• Competition for jobs and housing
• Competition for political offices
• Competition for street and sewer maintenance contracts 
• Competition for the best farm land