APUSH Chapter 25 Part 2

Question 1

Renewed isolationism

Answer 1

Reaction to WWI
Henry Cabot Lodge leads irreconcilables in Senate
Avoid major conflicts again
Rejection of the League of Nations

Question 2

The Red Scare

Answer 2

Russian Revolution 1914 (Lenin, Bolsheviks, communism)
Widespread fear of communist takeover (the Red Scare)
Leads to many harsh reactions towards leftists
(People that fall on left side –> communists, socialists, anarchists, dangerous)

Question 3

Resurgence of Nativism and Racism

Answer 3

Don't like poeple outside of borders 
Palmer Raids 
Sacco and Venzetti 
Immigration Act of 1924 
Reemergence of the KKK

Question 4

Palmer Raids

Answer 4

1919-1920
Wilson warns against “Hyphenated Americans”
Such creatures of passion, disloyalty, and anarchy must be crushed out
500 leftists deported
Many prominent leaders of leftist organizations

Question 5

Sacco and Vanzetti

Answer 5

Italian anarchists (no govt)
Charged with robbery of Braintree, MA shoe factory 
Murder of guard and paymaster 
Unfair trial
Poor evidence 
Conviction was political, Italian leftist 
Received death sentence 
International protests
Executed 1927

Question 6

The Immigration Act

Answer 6

1924
Americans fear effects of Europeans 
Quota system (1921)
Replaced with a stringer act 
2% of pop in America allowed to enter 
Favors N. Europeans (already more people here)

Question 7

Reemergence of the KKK

Answer 7

Starts post civil war
membership skyrockets after WWI
-nativism (favor pure “Americans”)
-pro-Protestantism (and white and American) to not be targeted
-opposed to foreigners, blacks, communists, Catholics, Jews, etc
-Midwest and south
-5 million members–>declines after 1920s