intolerance in the 1920's
- Created by: Tom Lennard
- Created on: 26-01-14 13:34
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- Intolerance in the 1920s
- Immigration
- During the 19th century, as the interior of the USA was opened up for settlement, people from Europe poured in
- By the 20th century Americans were fed up of immagrants.
- The First World War heightened the hatred of immigrants - especially Germans
- Immigration was ended when Congress passed the Johnson-Reid Act of 1924, which fixed a quota of 150,000 immigrants a year.
- The Red Scare
- Many white anglo-saxon protestants were worried that many immigrants were trying to spread communism in America
- They feared that they had radicle political beliefs and that they intended to overthrow the accepted system so WASPS saw them as anarchists
- Red Scare meant a fear of communism
- Sacco and Vanzetti trial
- 5th May 1920 - 24th August 1927
- Of stealing $16,000 and shooting the staff at a shoe factory
- Evidence - lied to police, they were anarchists, 61 eyewitnesses identified them as the killers
- Defence - several men confessed, judge was biased against them, lied to police because they feared that they would be discriminated against
- Why guilty? - became scapegoat of the red scare, they were immigrants/ Italians/ anarchists, judge was biased, influence of the press, some evidence pointed towards them.
- Immigration
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