Prejudice and Intolerance
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- Created on: 15-04-13 17:09
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- Prejudice and Intolerance
- RED SCARE
- USA feared that recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and Russia were bringing ideas of communism with them
- 1919 bombs destroyed homes
- Strikes
- Seattle 1919 - general strike, led by Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- Coal miners, steel workers, police force of Boston - strike workers sacked, locked out, starved, violence if went on strike
- Result of terrible working conditions and low pay
- Seen as Communist interference
- Palmer raids
- Communists arrested, Mitchell Palmer killed
- People used this as excuse to attack groups not liked - Jews, Catholics, blacks, new immigrants
- IMMIGRATION POLICIES
- 1921 Immigration Quota Act
- New immigrants allowed in in proportion to number of people of same nationality who had been in America
- 3%
- 1924 National Origins Act
- Quota reduced to 2%
- Had been more northern Europe (English, Irish) in America, so more of these groups allowed to enter
- 1929
- Only 150000 immigrants per year allowed in. No Asians
- 1921 Immigration Quota Act
- NICOLA SACCO AND BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI
- Anarchists, hated capatalism and American system of gov
- Trial began 1921, lasted 45 days
- Convicted of murder and robbery
- Protests of people who argued it was miscarriage of justice and judge was prejudiced
- Executed in 1927
- Evidence for prosecution - 61 eyewitnesses
- Evidence for defence - other men confessed to murder, not a crime to carry
- RACIST LAWS
- Jim Crows' Laws - collective name for laws that discriminated against African Americans
- More common in southern states
- Made difficult for AA to vote - law had to show grandfather voted but most were slaves
- Forced white and AA to use separate facilities - segregation
- Jim Crows' Laws - collective name for laws that discriminated against African Americans
- RED SCARE
- Seen as Communist interference
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