the roaring 20's

• american italians became "americans", by growing to dislike people with coloured skin. 

• other ethnic groups became frwoned upon such as irish americans, french canadians and german americans.   

• a hierachy based on colour

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• people became racist towards immigrants
• immigrants bought the radical ideas of communism (bolshevism) with them, so america cut down on the number of european immigrants

• two high-profile victims of the red scare
• italian americans
• openly admitted anarchists
• a trial for armed robbery and murder turned into a trial for radical ideas
• when they were executed in 1927 protests from both radicals and moderates saw the injustice that the trial had conducted

• number of immigrants had dropped to 150,000 per year
• the larger proportian of immigrants were made sure to be from north-west europe (irish, british and german) rather than south-east europeans (italians and russians)