1) What was the Red Scare?
Fear of communism; the chance of communism in America.
2) What was the American reaction to the Red Scare?
Labor unions will try to embrace communism. The Palmer Raids(Palmer and Hoover) will hunt down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists. They'll invade homes and offices, they jail people without lawyers, hundred of foreign born radicals will be deported. Government tries to root out communists, loyalty oaths needed to be signed by teachers. Signs of communism: wall street bombed-38 killed, Palmer's house bombed.
3) What did the Sacco and Venzetti Case show about America?
Italians that were charged with robbery and murder of 2 guys. They'll be found guilty even with good alibis and not much evidence. They were executed. Shows evidence weren't important, it was their Italian heritage. It showed America's fear of the outside.
4) What was the social reactions to fear of immigrants in American society?
Rise of the Ku Klux Klan. They were bigots. White, male, native born, and gentile citizens. They were against everyone but that weren't like them; they were pro-WASP. 1915 movie "Birth of a Nation"- KKK. Anti-immigrant sentiment by congress: quota system- limits immigrants from certain nations to 3%. It was supposed to cut the immigration to U.S. Catholics, Jews, Japanese targeted.1924 Immigration Act aka Johnson Reed Act- 3% to 2%. Targeted Southern and Eastern Asia.
Fear of communism; the chance of communism in America.
2) What was the American reaction to the Red Scare?
Labor unions will try to embrace communism. The Palmer Raids(Palmer and Hoover) will hunt down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists. They'll invade homes and offices, they jail people without lawyers, hundred of foreign born radicals will be deported. Government tries to root out communists, loyalty oaths needed to be signed by teachers. Signs of communism: wall street bombed-38 killed, Palmer's house bombed.
3) What did the Sacco and Venzetti Case show about America?
Italians that were charged with robbery and murder of 2 guys. They'll be found guilty even with good alibis and not much evidence. They were executed. Shows evidence weren't important, it was their Italian heritage. It showed America's fear of the outside.
4) What was the social reactions to fear of immigrants in American society?
Rise of the Ku Klux Klan. They were bigots. White, male, native born, and gentile citizens. They were against everyone but that weren't like them; they were pro-WASP. 1915 movie "Birth of a Nation"- KKK. Anti-immigrant sentiment by congress: quota system- limits immigrants from certain nations to 3%. It was supposed to cut the immigration to U.S. Catholics, Jews, Japanese targeted.1924 Immigration Act aka Johnson Reed Act- 3% to 2%. Targeted Southern and Eastern Asia.