Social Section 4
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- Sacco and Vanzetti
- two Italian-born anarchists, unfairly tried and convicted for the armed robbery and murder of two pay-clerks in Massachusetts in 1920
- sabotage
- deliberate destruction or damage of equipment in order to hinder a particular group
- deportation
- the expulsion of someone from a country
- Red Scare
- a period of general fear of communists
- nativism
- the suspicion that the incitements for rebellion were foreign born. This fear lead to Americans treating immigrants poorly and feeling that they were all anarchists. People felt that America must be kept American
- Alfred Smith
- the first Roman-Catholic and Irish-American to run for president, and was defeated by Hoover.
- company unions
- a union which is located within and run by a company
- Marcus Garvey
- Jamaican national hero and champion of black nationalism
- Emergency Quota Act
- an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3% of the number of persons from that country living in the United States in 1910, according to the U.S. Census
- Boston Police Strike
- the Police Force in Boston, MA went on a strike, and in fear of communism, President Coolidge (then governor at the time) fired them and called in the militia to be the police force
- Herbert Hoover
- 31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed
- anarchists
- one who believes in the absolute abolishment of all forms of government