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| what was the red scare? | communist were people who believed in overthrowing the government in a revolution.
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| why were Americans terrified of communists? | It threatened the "American" way of life,
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| when did the USSR make their atomic bomb? | 1949
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| when did the USSR become communist? | 1917
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| when did china become communist? | 1949
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| when was the Korean war? | 1950
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| when was captain American brought back from the dead to fight communists? | 1953
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| what did the HUAC have the right to do? | Investigate anyone doing anything un-American
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| what did un-American mean? | it mostly meant communist activities.
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| who did the HUAC question for producing anti American pro communist motion pictures? | the Hollywood 10
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| what could the HUAC do to stop people from working who were thought to be communist? | they could get people blacklisted.
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| what mistake did McCarthy make in 1954? | he accused the army of being communists.
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| what happened to McCarthy after he accused the army of being communist? | his actions were televised and he lost his supporters.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| when were the literary tests introduced? | 1917
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| when was the national origins act? | 1924
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| in 1929 how many immigrants were allowed in? | 150,000 but no Asians.
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| by what year did immigration vertically stop? | 1930
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| when was the emergency quota act? | 1921
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| when was the immigration act introduced? | 1965
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| what was the immigration act? | it abolished national origins system which led in an increase in Hispanics entering USA from mexico.
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| 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
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| what did black Americans suffer? | Lynching, earned 30% less than whites, weren't allowed to vote, the KKK, Jim crow laws, segregation.
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| what did the black panthers use? | they used violence to fight for equality black power.
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| what did Malcolm X do? | he used violence to believe in black people being better than whites.
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| bus boycott was in what year? | 1954
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| 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.
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| civil rights act 1957 | it gave the right to vote and to intervene with people stopping blacks from voting.
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| 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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