American Society 1910-1929
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- Created on: 03-05-13 20:52
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- American Society 1910-1929
- Ku Klux Klan
- Founded during the Civil War in 1866
- Racist organisation which aimed to terrorise Black Americans, in the Southern states - (who had just been freed from slavery)
- Membership of the KKK were only open to WASPS
- WASPS: anti-black, anti-jew, anti-catholic, anti-communist, against all foreigners
- 1920- 100,000 members, 1925- 5 million
- KKK members dresses in White Robes & White Hoods - COLOUR; symbolising white supremacy
- Members carried the American flag, and burnt crosses during their night-time meetings
- Carried out: Lynchings, floggings, brandings, mutilation, tar, feathering, kidnapping- inspired fear in non WASPS
- Red Scare
- Many feared that immigrants would spread communist and anarchist ideas
- 3600 strikes during 1919 - communist revolution was pending
- During 1919 a bomb planted by an anarchist group badly damaged the house of the Attorney-General, Mitchell Palmer
- Apri 1919, 10 people were killed by a bomb planted in a churh in Milwuakee
- September 1920, an anarchist bomb exploded on Wall Street, killing 39 people
- Palmer Raids
- Organised by the Attorney-General, Mitchell Palmer ( Head of the US department of Justice
- Arrest of over 6000 suspected communists in 36 cities across America
- Trade unionists, Jews, Catholics and Black people were particularly targeted
- People were held for several weeks without charge & Hundreds were later deported
- Enforcement of the prohibition laws
- The alcohol tradfe was driven underground and developed into organised crime under the control of powerful gangsters
- Bootleggers( Al Capone ) - Made money smuggling alcohol into the country
- Moonshiners made their own illeal home brews
- Speakeasies sold illegal alcohol- By 1925 there were over 100,000 in New York
- Not many Government Prohibition Agents to enforce the law - Often open to bribery
- Ku Klux Klan
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