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Attitudes to immigration in 1920s America - Coggle Diagram
Attitudes to immigration in 1920s America
1.3.3: How real was the American Dream?
Anyone can get rich by working hard no matter where they come from
1917 immigration act (literacy test, banned immigration from Asia)
1921 emergency quota act (3% off of the 1910 census)
1924 Johnson-Read act (2% off of the 1890 census)
was first coined in the 1931 book “Epic of America” by J.T. Adams.
1.3.4: There are reds under our beds!?
fear of communism
clashes with laissez-fair attitudes
communist revolution in russia - very violent
sacco and vanzetti
immigrants seen as anarchists and communists
convicted and sentenced to death on circumstantial evidence
clashes with American Dream
Palmer raids
6000 arrested on suspicion of revolutionary activity
most released, lack of evidence
only 3 pistols found
claimed a communist rally would take place in new york
didn't, loss of credibility
1.3.5: Goblins and Dragons!?
KKK
political influence
died out by the 1930s
membership dropped to 200,000 by 1930
claimed
(4)
5
million members in 1923
1924 had both of Georgia's senators
helped to elect senators in Maine, Ohio, Colorado and Louisiana in 1924
lots of people in police force
destroyed presidential campaign of Al Smith, a Catholic New Yorker