Isolationism

Question 0

In what time space did 40 million people move to the USA (date-date)

Answer 0

1850-1914

Question 1

How many people moved to the ISA between 1850-1914

Answer 1

40 million people

Question 2

By the end of ww1 how many different nationalities made up the American society

Answer 2

A hundred different nationalities

Question 3

What was the dark side of the roaring 20s? (Two words)

Answer 3

Intolerance

Racism

Question 4

What were WASPS

Answer 4

White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

Question 5

What way was politics leaning in the 20s? (Towards something)

Answer 5

Towards isolation

Question 6

What was a result of the political leaning towards isolation

Answer 6

This led directly to attempts to restrict immigration

Question 7

What type of people did people who were against immigration want to keep out in particular? (Two)

Answer 7

Asians and Eastern Europeans

Question 8

What did Americans fear about immigrants (two things)

Answer 8

That they would take their jobs

That would might try to spread communist ideas

Question 9

When was the Immigration Law passed

Answer 9

1917

Question 10

What did the Immigration Law require the immigrants to do

Answer 10

They had to prove they could read English

Question 11

When was the Emergency Quota Act

Answer 11

1921

Question 12

What did the Emergency Quota Act do

Answer 12

Limited the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year

Number ims from one country could not exceed 3% of the number already living in the USA in 1910

Question 13

How did the Emergency Quota Act keep out Eastern European countries

Answer 13

Bc there were fewer of them already living in the USA

Question 14

When was the National Origins Act

Answer 14

1924

Question 15

What did the National Origins Act do?

Answer 15

Reduced the quota (EQA) to 2% of population and set the date back to 1890

Question 16

What happened in 1929 in terms of the reduction of immigrants (figure and a country that was blocked)

Answer 16

Number of immigrants each year - 150,000

Immigration from Asia blocked altogether

Question 17

What was another effect of isolationism (think about attitude of immigrants)

Answer 17

Distrust and intolerance of immigrants

Question 18

What jobs were immigrants restricted to

Answer 18

The lowest paid ones

Question 19

What did areas of cities become to immigrants

Answer 19

Ghettos

Question 20

What were the conditions in the ghettos like

Answer 20

Housing poor

Violence and crime high

Question 21

Why were immigrants often despised

Answer 21

Because they were poor

Question 22

Why did Americans fear communism especially after 1917

Answer 22

1917 was the Russian Revolution

Question 23

What did Americans feel about the Russian Revolution and communism (think threat, two things)

Answer 23

Free lifestyle under threat

Capitalist economy that funded free lifestyle were under threat

Question 24

When did fear of communism become widespread

Answer 24

Early 1920s

Question 25

What was the idea that immigrants were communists called?

Answer 25

The Red Scare

Question 26

When did fear intensify of red scare (bombing?)

Answer 26

Number of bombs were planted by Italian immigrants and anarchists

Question 27

When was the Wall Street bombing

Answer 27

16th September 1920

Question 28

What happened at the Wall Street bombing (details of where, and what happened)

Answer 28

Outside the stock exchange Bomb on horse-drawn wagon was detonated The bomb was on a timer

Question 29

What did the bomb contain on wall st bombing

Answer 29

45kg dynamite surrounded by hundreds of small metal slugs

Question 30

What type of crowd did the bomb hit (type of day) and how many casualties and fatalities were there as a result of the bombing

Answer 30

The lunchtime crowd 400 injured 38 died

Question 31

What did American newspapers call the bombing and who did they blame

Answer 31

'An act of war' and blames Italian anarchists Although bombers never captured

Question 32

Who was the Us attorney-general who dealt with the bombing

Answer 32

Alexander Palmer

Question 33

What did Palmer order the forces to do in response to the bombings

Answer 33

To arrest 10,000 people suspected of holding left-wing political views

Question 34

What were left wing political views

Answer 34

an outlook that supports social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. Involves a concern for those in society who are 'disadvantaged' relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished

Question 35

What were the arrests as a result of the Red Scare bombings called

Answer 35

Palmer Raids

Question 36

What happened to those who were rounded up by Palmer who were discovered to be immigrants

Answer 36

They were deported without trial

Question 37

What was the most famous case of injustice against immigrants

Answer 37

The Sacco and Venzetti case

Question 38

What were the full names of Sacco and Venzetti

Answer 38

Nicola Sacco Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Question 39

What were Sacco and Venzetti (openly something)

Answer 39

Openly anarchists

Question 40

What were Sacco and Venzetti charged of in 1920

Answer 40

The murder of two guards in an armed robbery

Question 41

How many witnesses identified S and V as killers

Answer 41

61

Question 42

What was a flaw in the witnesses statements

Answer 42

They could not agree on the details of the crime they all claimed they saw

Question 43

How many in defence witnesses claimed they saw S and V somewhere else at the time of the robbery

Answer 43

107

Question 44

Why did the large defence to the S and V case fail to bring justice

Answer 44

Because most of the defence witnesses were Italian Immigrants So both men were guilty of murder

Question 45

When were S and V executed

Answer 45

1917

Question 46

Who were the Ku Klux Klan

Answer 46

a militant organisation of white supremacists

Question 47

What did the KKK launch

Answer 47

A moral crusade to save the USA

Question 48

What did the KKK stir up

Answer 48

Racial and religious hatred

Question 49

Who would the KKK accept

Answer 49

Only those who were WASPS, people who originally came from north Europe and whose fams had lived in US for several generations

Question 50

Who were not condemned as being true Americans (six)

Answer 50

Jews, Catholics, immigrants from S.Eu (Italians), E.Eu (Russians), Asia, and especially black people.

Question 51

How many members did the KKK increase to between 1920 to 1925 ( number - number)

Answer 51

5000 - 5 million

Question 52

Who were often the klans members

Answer 52

Poor whites who felt their jobs were threatened by people who were willing to work for lower wages - blacks and immigrants

Question 53

Who else joined the klan (think higher up)

Answer 53

Rick and influential members Incl. state politicians

Question 54

Where was the klan strongest? (N E S W?)

Answer 54

Southern states where there was a large black population and a history of slavery

Question 55

State 4 things klan members did

Answer 55

* ceremonies white robes * Klonversations (secret code) * torture and violence to those who weren't 'true Americans' * attacked blacks

Question 56

What did the KKK do to blacks specifically (5)

Answer 56

Beaten, raped, lynched, homes set on fire, property destroyed

Question 57

What is lynching?

Answer 57

Hanging without trial

Question 58

How were Klansmen who committed violence protected and by who

Answer 58

Police and judges who were klan members Protected them

Question 59

What was an effect of KKK support in courts (think jury)

Answer 59

White juries became reluctant to find people guilty of klans activities

Question 60

When did klan membership begin to fall and why

Answer 60

After 1925 when appalling crimes began to take place, which were widely reported