Social Unrest After WW1

Ethnocentrism

Belief that one's own race is superior to others.

The Immigration Acts of 1921, 1924, 1929

Established strict quotas or total number allowed in America from southern and eastern Europe.

Lynchings

Executions by a mob of people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

He believed that African Americans should strive for full rights immediately; founded the NAACP

Vladimir Lenin

Leader Russia's Communist movement.

Jim Crow Laws

Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights

Great Migration

Movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

Booker T. Washington

Proponent of gradual gain of equal rights for African-Americans

"Red Summer"

Race riots in the summer of 1919 in Chicago. During these riots 15 whites and 23 African-Americans were killed.

Palmer Raids

Rounding up of thousands of suspected Communists and anarchists. 600 were deported.

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)/Gentlemen's Agreement(1907)

Some of the earliest anti-immigration laws...mostly focused on Asians.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme court decision that made separate but equal ok and helped strengthened Jim Crow Laws.

"Red Scare" 1919-1920

The end of WWI brought new fears to many Americans of Communists, anarchists, and immigrants.

Nativists

Those "born" in or "native" to the US - wanted to restrict immigration into the US.

Sacco and Vanzetti Case

Two men were convicted of a murder that they did not do. Used as examples during the red scare.