Division Red Scare

Question 1

What grew alongside nativism in WW1

Answer 1

Suspicion and hostility towards socialism

Question 2

What did the 1917 Espinoage act outline

Answer 2

Mail could be seized and inspected. Revolutionaries arrested

Question 3

What and when was the Emergency Quota Act

Answer 3

1921- Drastic limitations on immigration

Question 4

What was the Red scare

Answer 4

1917 Russian Revolution spread fear of communism spreads by immigrants from central/Eastern Europe

Question 5

What was the result of the red scare

Answer 5

Strikes across the US,1919 4 million workers involved. Resulted in violence as business and governments tried to crack down on strikes

Question 6

What also grew with the red scare

Answer 6

Racial tensions. 20 race riots in 1919

Question 7

What was the US attorney general Mitchell palmer convinced on

Answer 7

A real socialist threat, heightened by April 1919 bomb packages sent to public figures

Question 8

What were the Palmer Raids

Answer 8

Palmers justice dept raised offices of radical organisations across 12 cities

Question 9

Result of 1919 Palmer Raids

Answer 9

249 radicals deported

Led to vigilante action by ordinary citizens