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• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1. Vladimir Lenin was the first leader

• United States did to keep Communism out

1. The Palmer raids
2. A series of raids conducted by the Department of Justice to capture and arrest suspected radicals and deport them from the United States
3. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover
4. Raids started after there were strikes that got national attention, race riots in more than 30 cities, and two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer's home
5. More than 500 foreign citizens were deported during the raids

• Sacco and Vanzetti

1. In 1920, two men robbed and murdered a paymaster and his guard as they transferred $15,776 from the Slater and Morrill Shoe factory.
2. Due to the Anti-immigrant, anti-communist times of the Red Scare, two Italian immigrants and known anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were accused and arrested for the crime, despite little evidence against them

• Immigration

1. The Immigration Act of 1924 greatly reduced immigration to US
2. The law was aimed at restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, and Jews
3. Severely restricted the immigration of Africans and prohibited the immigration of Arabs, East Asians, and  Indians
4. The purpose of the act was "to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity"
5. W.A.S.P

• Republican Philosophy

1. Low taxes, high tariffs and less government
2. Lower immigration
3. Trickle-down theory
4. Laissez-faire
5. Rugged individualism
6. Return to "Normalcy"

• Harding's Death

1. Trouble breathing
2. Bad heart
3. First president to go to Alaska
4. Gets sick in Alaska 
5. Speech started slurring
6. Wife killed him

• Rural vs. Urban

1. 1920 Census- 51.2 people lived in cities of 2,500 or more
2. 1922-1929- more than 2 million people moved from farms to the cities each year
3. Rural areas tried to hold on to moral values and close social relationships
4. Cities tolerated drinking, gambling and casual dating

• Prohibition "The Noble Experiment"

1. 18th Amendment
2. The manufacture, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages was illegal
3. Supporters believed alcohol brought about corruption, crime, wife and child abuse and accidents
4. Alcohol was allowed for medicinal and religious purposes
5. Prescriptions and sacramental wine orders skyrocketed
6. The Volstead Act created the Prohibition Bureau
7. Prohibition failed for three reasons
8. People despised it. Saw it as government meddling in people's lives
9. The Prohibition Bureau was underfunded. Had 1,500 people to supervise the country
10. Organized crime became commonplace