Additional Terms Pt 3

Question 1

W.E.B. DuBois

Answer 1

Advocated political and legal action to challenge white supremacy, co-founder of NAACP
- produced influential shcolarship like The Souls of Black Folk and Black Reconstruction in America
- criticism of Washington reveals politicized context of Black freedom struggle and many positions available to Black activists

Question 2

RMS Lusitania

Answer 2

Created stronger pressure for war inside US
- inclued with other German attacks on American and British shipping raising stakes for war
- ship sunk by German submarines

Question 3

Creel Committee

Answer 3

Committe on Public Information
- partnered with Hollywood and mass media to produce** pro-war propaganda**
- inspiring patriotism, generating support for military adventures

Question 4

Espionage/Sedition Act

Answer 4

**Espionage: **
Used to crack down on dissidents who argued the War, including Eugene Debs, was being fought for interests of rich while poor suffer and die
Sedition
Illegal to express negative views about the government

Question 5

First Red Scare

Answer 5

Inspiried many leftists and dissenting artists to express sympathy with accussed
- key example of Sacco Vanzetti case

Question 6

National Origins Act

Answer 6

Designed to “turn the block back” nad “preserve the ideal of US homogeneity”, barring immigiration from Asia and restructing annual immigration