Immigration and the Red Scare
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- Immigration and the Red Scare
- American attitudes to Immigration after WW1
- The Government wanted America to be a "melting pot", where all immigrants became American
- However, this didn't happen as gangs of specific groups of people formed
- 8.5 million people emigrated to the US from 1901 to 1910, mainly from Britain (5 million) and Germany (4.4 million)
- Generally, favouring white and Protestant emigrants
- The Government wanted America to be a "melting pot", where all immigrants became American
- Immigration Laws after WW1
- In 1917, a literacy test was introduced, favouring people from Northern and Western Europe, who were mainly white and protestant
- In 1921, the Emergency Quota Act was passed, limiting the number of people admitted from a specific nationality to 3% of the total number of emigrants from that country in the US in 1910
- Again favouring those from Northern and Western Europe
- In 1924, the National Origins Act was passed, changing the number of people admitted to 2% and from 1890 allowing more eastern european people to emigrate to the US. Also, the overall number of European immigrants was restricted to 150,000
- The Red Scare
- The fear of communism and its spread in the USA, as a reaction of the 1917 Russian revolution through radical immigrants
- Over 400,000 people went on strike in 1919 as there were less jobs needed after WW1 and pay was cut but most people saw this as a growth of communism
- The fear of communism and its spread in the USA, as a reaction of the 1917 Russian revolution through radical immigrants
- The KKK
- A white supremacy group using violence to intimidate black americans and other minorities
- The film "A Birth of a Nation" led to the revive of the KKK in 1915 and the 20's
- Members joined the Government spreading racist views to a large audience causing lots more racism (with 4.5 million members in 1924)
- Only in 1925 did the corruption come out when Grand Wizard David Stephenson was convicted of a sexually motivated murder
- Members joined the Government spreading racist views to a large audience causing lots more racism (with 4.5 million members in 1924)
- The film "A Birth of a Nation" led to the revive of the KKK in 1915 and the 20's
- A white supremacy group using violence to intimidate black americans and other minorities
- Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
- A famous injustice against Italian immigrants
- Witnesses were dismissed as they were Italian, evidence shows their guns were different to the guns of the crime scene and the case was over within 3 hours, finding them guilty
- A famous injustice against Italian immigrants
- American attitudes to Immigration after WW1
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