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land of freedom USA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what was the red scare? | communist were people who believed in overthrowing the government in a revolution. |
| why were Americans terrified of communists? | It threatened the "American" way of life, |
| when did the USSR make their atomic bomb? | 1949 |
| when did the USSR become communist? | 1917 |
| when did china become communist? | 1949 |
| when was the Korean war? | 1950 |
| when was captain American brought back from the dead to fight communists? | 1953 |
| what did the HUAC have the right to do? | Investigate anyone doing anything un-American |
| what did un-American mean? | it mostly meant communist activities. |
| who did the HUAC question for producing anti American pro communist motion pictures? | the Hollywood 10 |
| what could the HUAC do to stop people from working who were thought to be communist? | they could get people blacklisted. |
| what mistake did McCarthy make in 1954? | he accused the army of being communists. |
| what happened to McCarthy after he accused the army of being communist? | his actions were televised and he lost his supporters. |
| what did immigration do? | Gave them the chance to make more money there, freedom of speech and language, more jobs, lots of land and natural resources as well as free from slavery. |
| why did people in the 1920's want to reduce immigration? | the immigrants were often fro eastern Europe and they were often poor, and letting communists in. |
| when were the literary tests introduced? | 1917 |
| when was the national origins act? | 1924 |
| in 1929 how many immigrants were allowed in? | 150,000 but no Asians. |
| by what year did immigration vertically stop? | 1930 |
| when was the emergency quota act? | 1921 |
| when was the immigration act introduced? | 1965 |
| what was the immigration act? | it abolished national origins system which led in an increase in Hispanics entering USA from mexico. |
| what discrimination did the Hispanics suffer? | few graduated from schools, they had no health cover,they were stereotyped as lazy, earned less than white people and many lived in poverty |
| what did black Americans suffer? | Lynching, earned 30% less than whites, weren't allowed to vote, the KKK, Jim crow laws, segregation. |
| what did the black panthers use? | they used violence to fight for equality black power. |
| what did Malcolm X do? | he used violence to believe in black people being better than whites. |
| bus boycott was in what year? | 1954 |
| what happened in the bus boycott? | black refused to ride on the segregated buses they walked and car pooled for 12 months causing the bus company to nearly go bankrupted. |
| civil rights act 1957 | it gave the right to vote and to intervene with people stopping blacks from voting. |
| how were native Americans treated? | tried to destroyed their way of life,took land, children forced to go to boarding school, they had to convert to Christians and many traditions weren't allowed. |
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