Chapter 12 and the Russian Revolution

Question 1

What was their a big debate over?

Answer 1

The League of Nations

Question 2

What happened to soldiers that were returning home?

Answer 2

They lost their jobs and cost of living doubled

Question 3

Persuaded workers at his department store to join e department store employees union?

Answer 3

Irving Fajans

Question 4

Prejudice against foreign born people: swept the nation

Answer 4

Nativism

Question 5

A policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

Answer 5

Isolationism

Question 6

What was he main threat to America?

Answer 6

Communism

Question 7

An economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship

Answer 7

Communism

Question 8

What did communists do?

Answer 8

Ended private properties and substituted ownership of factories, railroads, and businesses

Question 9

When did the panic begin?

Answer 9

In 1919 after the czarist regime was overthrown

Question 10

Vladimir I Lenin’s followers

Answer 10

Bolsheviks

Question 11

What did the Bolsheviks make?

Answer 11

A new communist state

Question 12

Wanted a revolution to abolish capitalism

Answer 12

Reds

Question 13

When bombs were mailed to the government, who took action?

Answer 13

General A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 14

When General A. Mitchell Palmer took control, what was it called?

Answer 14

The red scare

Question 15

Who did Palmer appoint as his assistant?

Answer 15

J. Edgar Hoover

Question 16

What did Palmer and Hoover do?

Answer 16

Hunted down communists, socialists, and anarchists

Question 17

People who oppose any form of government

Answer 17

Anarchist

Question 18

What was it called when Hoover and Palmer trampled people rights and homes?

Answer 18

The Palmer Raids

Question 19

What did people believe that Palmer was trying to do?

Answer 19

Look for a campaign issue for presidential aspirations

Question 20

What were people suspicious about after the red scare?

Answer 20

Foreigners and immigrants

Question 21

Victims of a nativist attitude:

Answer 21

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeu Vanzetti

Question 22

What were Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s occupations?

Answer 22

Shoemaker and Fish Peddler

Question 23

What were Sacco and Vanzetti charged with?

Answer 23

Robbery and murder

Question 24

How were Sacco and Vanzetti killed, and why?

Answer 24

By electric chair because they were “communists”

Question 25

What was the new attitude slogan?

Answer 25

Keep America for Americans

Question 26

What group began to rise after WWI?

Answer 26

The KKK

Question 27

Because of the red scare, people used what to harass people?

Answer 27

Anti- communism

Question 28

What group reached 4.5 million people?

Answer 28

The KKK

Question 29

What was the KKK devoted to?

Answer 29

100% Americanism

Question 30

What led to a decrease in power?

Answer 30

Criminal activity

Question 31

Established the max number of people who can enter the U.S. From a foreign country

Answer 31

Emergency Quota act of 1921/ quota system

Question 32

Who did the quota system discriminate?

Answer 32

Roman Catholics and Jews

Question 33

What was it know as when companies had to go back basic goods, since the war was over?

Answer 33

Guns to Butter

Question 34

What did the American Federation of Labor pledge?

Answer 34

To avoid strikes

Question 35

What were striking workers known as?

Answer 35

Communists

Question 36

Summarize the Boston Police Strike:

Answer 36

Officers were not given a raise since World War 1, and were fired when they asked for one. Police then Went on strike for the . Calvin Coolidge sent the national Guard out to calm the, down. All the police were fired and new ones were hired. Coolidge was known as a hero.

Question 37

Summarize the Steel Mill Strike:

Answer 37

Workers in the steel mill wanted shorter hours and a raise. They also wanted more rights. Workers quit because union representatives didn't meet with them. Strike breakers were hired, and then beaten by police officers. This was linked to communism.

Question 38

United Mine Workers of America leader

Answer 38

John L. Lewis

Question 39

Summarize the Coal Miners Strike:

Answer 39

Workers wanted shorter work days and higher pay, so Lewis put them on strike. General Palmer sent them back to work, instead. They stayed on strike for another month, until Wilson sent a judge to stop the dispute. The coal miners received a 27% raise, and was a national hero

Question 40

Why did Union membership drop?

Answer 40

1. Workforce immigrants willing to work in bad conditions 2. There was no organization due to so many different languages 3. Farmers reliant on them 4. Unions excluded African Americans

Question 41

Czar Nicholas

Answer 41

The last tsar of Russia under Romanov Rule

Question 42

Romanov family

Answer 42

Family who ruled over Russia

Question 43

Anastasia

Answer 43

Daughter of Czar Nicholas | Duchess of Russia

Question 44

Leon Trotsky

Answer 44

Commissioner of war in the new social government

Question 45

Rasputin

Answer 45

Magical advisor in the court of Czar Nicholas | Was attempted to be killed 7 times, but lived each time

Question 46

Who had hemophilia?

Answer 46

The whole Romanov Family

Question 47

Alexi

Answer 47

The son of Czar Nicholas who had hemophilia

Question 48

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 48

Leader of the Bolsheviks and was made into an exile

Question 49

February Revolution

Answer 49

A riot about lack of food, while the Romanov's live in a castle When the Romanov's were overthrown

Question 50

October Revolution

Answer 50

Begun because the Bolshevik party overtook the government buildings When the government was overthrown