20.1 Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues

Holland US History II, MATES 2026

nativism

prejudice against foreign-born people

isolationism

policy of pulling away from world affairs

Communism

economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship

Red Scare

anarchists

opposed any form of government

Sacco and Vanzetti

• famous victims of the Red Scare

• Italian anarchists charged with robbery and murder (1920)

• evidence was circumstantial and had alibis

• found guilty, both electrocuted to death (1927)

quota system

• set limits on how many immigrants from various countries will be admitted each year

• did not apply to immigrants from western hemisphere (Mexico/Canada)

John L. Lewis

leader of the United Mine Workers of America, fought for better pay