The Jazz Age Lesson 1: Time of Turmoil

What event symbolized the fear of immigrants during the Red Scare?

• Protests over the Bolshevik takeover of Russia.

• The revival of the Ku Klux Klan.

• The trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

One reason why steelworkers went on strike in 1919 is because they wanted ______.

• 1.  A.an increase in wages

• 1.  B.to join a union

      

• 1. C.better equipment

      

• 1. D.safer working conditions

What happened to the police officers in Boston after they went on strike?

• 1.  A.They were allowed to keep their jobs.

      

• 1. B.The governor fired them.

      

• 1. C.They were allowed to start unions.

      

• 1. D.The community stopped supporting them.

What did anarchists believe?

• 1.  A.They believed that labor unions threaten democracy.

      

• 1. B.They believed that all people should share ownership of property.

• 1.  C.They believed that capitalism creates wealth for all people.

      

• 1. D.They believed that government should not exist.

In 1919 and 1920, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer expelled hundreds of people from the country because of ______.

• 1.  A.disease

• 1.  B.the quota system

• 1.  C.the "Red Scare"

• 1.  D.sabotage

An essential part of capitalism is the right to ______.

1.  

• 1. A.buy and sell items

• 1.  B. own private property

      

• 1. C.make personal purchases

      

• 1. D.establish corporations

• ______ established the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

• 1.  A.Philip Randolph

• 1.  B. A. Mitchell Palmer

      

• 1. C.Calvin Coolidge

      

• 1. D.Marcus Garvey

• Eighteen workers died in the ______ strike in 1919.

• 1.  A. coal miners

• 1.  B.steel workers

      

• 1. C.railroad workers

      

• 1. D.automobile workers

Marcus Garvey, a powerful African American leader believed that African Americans should ______.

• 1.  A.live in separate towns in the North

• 1.  B.set up their own country in Africa

• 1.  C.live side-by-side with whites

• 1.  D.live in separate towns in the North

African Americans and whites living side-by-side is described by the term ______.

• 1.  A.segregation

      

• 1. B.separation

• 1.  C.integration

• 1.  D.desegregation