1920's Red Scare & Immigration

The name of the communist group who took over Russia in 1917 was the

• Mensheviks

• Bolsheviks

• Reds

• Marxists

The government official who hunted down communists & anarchists from 1919-1921 was

• Warren Harding

• Paul Robeson

• Harry Daugherty

• A. Mitchell Palmer

Sacco & Vanzetti were

• two communists who exploded a bomb on Wall Street

• two anarchists who killed two people & were executed

• two immigrants who sent mail bombs to American officials

• two soldiers convicted to treason

The law that created a 3% quota of immigrant restrictions for the US was passed in 1921. It was the

• National Origins Act

• Immigration Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Emergency Quota Act

The law that created a more strict 2% quota for immigrants coming into the United States was passed in 1924. It was called the

• National Origins Act

• Immigration Act

• Emergency Quota Act

• Volstead Act

One of the largest terrorist attacks in US history came during the First Red Scare. It was against

• Washington DC

• Wall Street

• mail bombs to officials

• the White House

The Palmer Raids

• kept the communists from taking over the US government

• led to the deporting of over 500 communists

• led to the execution of Sacco & Vanzetti

• caused Warren Harding to resign

The idea that only people born in a certain place deserve to be there is called

• assimilation

• prejudice

• nativism

• bias

Sacco & Vanzetti's conviction was questionable because

• they were immigrants

• they were anarchists

• they tried to escape to Italy

• there was no solid physical evidence against them

The color associated with communism during the 1920's was

• blue

• black

• orange

• red