Final Essays

Question 1

Red scare

Answer 1

Communist scare
6000 people arrested and many held without charge
Over 500 deported inc. Emma Goldman

Question 2

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 2

1920, two Massachusetts payroll guards are robbed and murdered 
No evidence 
No witness 
No confession 
Electric chair- ZING!

Question 3

Race riots

Answer 3

Over 2 dozen in 1919 alone

Chicago 3 boys at a beach drift into “ white waters” whites attack and kill one with a thrown stone
Resulting riot kills 15 white and 23 black

Question 4

18th amendment

Answer 4

Outlaws the production, sale, distribution of alcohol

As a result comes the rise of organized crime

Question 5

Scopes trial

Answer 5

Butler act. - no teaching evolution
Deffense- Clarence Darrow
Prosecuting- William Jennings Bryan
Scopes found guilty

Question 6

Henry Ford

Answer 6

Controls the lives of his employees
Hates Jews and immigrants
Funds the printing of over 1/2 million copies of “ protocols of the elders of Zion”

Question 7

Birth of a nation

Answer 7

Civil war- slaves freed- everything turns to shit- KKK brings decency and honor to south
Over 5 million join KKK and target 5 groups, black- Jew- immigrant- communist- catholic

Question 8

Election of 1928

Answer 8

Al smith catholic runs

Klan says he is building tunnel to Vatican
Only catholic marriages
Burn crosses on his was to Oklahoma

Question 9

Ten points for question 1. Major events that led to a conservative nation

Answer 9

1) red scare
2) Sacco and Vanzetti
3) race riots
4) 18th amendment
5) scopes trial
6) Henry ford
7) birth of a nation/ rebirth of klan
8) al smith- Lincoln tunnel