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| the act of lessening a punishment |
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| the act of discharging forces from military service or use |
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| a period in which there is a decline in economic activity and prosperity |
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| a strike, or work stoppage intended to achieve a particular objective, conducted by the majority of workers in all of a region's industries |
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| a point of view favoring extreme change, especially in social or economic structure |
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| an economic or political system in which the state or the community owns all property and the means of production, and all citizens share the wealth |
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| a basic right guaranteed to individual citizens by law |
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| policies, views, and actions that discriminate against Jewish people |
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| a hotly protested criminal trial, held from 1920 to 1927, in which Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted of robbing and murdering two men and sentenced to death; many people believed that the trial was unfair and that the defendants were prosecuted because they were anarchists, not because they were guilty |
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| lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched by U.S. attorney general Mitchell Palmer and implemented by Justice Department attorney H. Edgar Hoover to arrest communists and other radicals who promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government; revived during the Cold War by Senator Joseph McCarthy during a period of anticommunism lasting from 1950 to 1957 |
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| conducted by Justice Department attorney J. Edgar Hoover at the instruction of U.S. Attorney General Mitchell Palmer, a series of unauthorized raids on homes, businesses, and meeting places of suspected subversives that resulted in the arrest of 6,000 radicals, often without any evidence against them |
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| established by the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, a system limiting immigration to the United States by permitting no more immigrants from a country than 3 percent of the number of that country's residents living in the United States in 1910; the Immigration Act of 1924 reduced the quota to 2 percent of the number of a country's residents living in the United States in 1890 |
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| American Civil Liberties Union |
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| an organization founded in 1920 to defend Americans' rights and freedoms as given in the Constitution |
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| a movement, led by Marcus Garvey during the 1910s and 1920s, that promoted the return of blacks living all over the world to Africa |
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| an organization at founded in 1913 to halt the defamation, or attack on a person's or group's reputation or character, of the Jewish people and to ensure the fair treatment of all Americans |
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