(Changes in society) Immigration and the Red Scare

Question 1

What had increased regarding immigrants?

Why?

Answer 1

Suspicion of immigrants from southern/eastern Europe & Asia, whose ideas posed a threaten the American way.

Question 2

What 2 immigration acts were introduced?

Answer 2

1921 Emergency Immigration Law

1924 Johnson-Reed Act

Question 3

One of the 2 immigrations act introduced was the 1921 Emergency Immigration Law.
What did this do?
(2)

Answer 3

Allowed only 3% of a specific population into America.

Favoured Western Europe.

Question 4

One of the 2 immigrations act introduced was the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act.
What did this do?
(2)

Answer 4

Banned immigration from Japan, as well as other already banned Asian countries.

Limited migration to 150,000 a year.

Question 5

What fear had increased in the aftermath of WW1?

What is this linked to?

Answer 5

Communism

Increasing industrial unrest

Question 6

Who led the Red Scare?

Answer 6

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

Question 7

Who did the Red Scare blame the threat of communist revolution on?

Answer 7

Immigrants

Question 8

The Palmer Raids were a significant aspect to the Red Scare, led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.
What did this do?

Answer 8

Arrested 6,000 immigrants, mostly without reason.

Question 9

Many people feared communist revolution.

What did the extent of communism actually look like?

Answer 9

It was exaggerated - industrial unrest and Union action was usually over genuine issues such as better pay, not communist revolution.

Question 10

What is an example of fear regarding immigrants bringing communist ideals to America?

Answer 10

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 11

Why did America’s population increase so much over such a short period of time?

(2)

Answer 11

People were having more children due to prosperity.

Immigration

Question 12

Which immigration law allowed only 3% of a specific population into America and favoured Western Europeans?

Answer 12

1921 Emergency Immigration Law

Question 13

What immigration law banned immigration from Japan and limited migration to 150,000 a year?

Answer 13

1924 Johnson-Reed Act.

Question 14

Who was banned from immigrating to America in this time?

Answer 14

People from Japan, Korea and China.

Question 15

Give statistics to support the growth of America’s population in the 1920s.

Answer 15

106.5 million to 123 million.

Question 16

How did the population migrate within America?

Answer 16

Up north where it was more liberal and prosperous in terms of jobs and community etc.

Question 17

What did British scientist, Francis Dalton claim?

2

Answer 17

Caucasians are a ‘superior race’ as they’re more attractive & can therefore reproduce easier.

Races weren’t supposed to mix - immigration is bad for humans & reproduction.

Question 18

Who claimed there was a ‘superior race’ and races shouldn’t mix?

Answer 18

British scientist, Francis Dalton

Question 19

Context - when was the Russian Revolution?1

Answer 19

1917

Question 20

Context - what effect did the Russian Revolution have in America?

Answer 20

People feared communism was seeping into America through immigration and workers going on strikes in 1919.

Question 21

What was the Red Scare?

Answer 21

Rounding up and arresting Eastern Europeans out of fear of communism.

Question 22

What was the name of the book that Francis Dalton published in 1919?

Answer 22

The Passing of the Great Race

Question 23

When did Francis Dalton publish ‘The Passing of the Great Race’?

Answer 23

1919

Question 24

Who was Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer?

3

Answer 24

Aimed to be President.

Hunted down 6,000 communists, only 30 were convicted.

Disappeared after 1920

Question 25

Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

3

Answer 25

Italian immigrants and supposed communists.

Claimed to be anarchists

Supposedly committed an armed robbery and murder in 1920, being executed in 1927 despite little evidence.

Question 26

Give a statistic that highlights the growing number of immigrants that led to the immigration laws being passed.

Answer 26

1919: 141,000
1921: 805,000