USA 2 Flashcards
Attitudes towards immigration
Many American workers were worried that workers from other countries would accept lower wages and accept their jobs from them
The immigrants were often poor illiterate and could not speed English
Many immigrants were catholics or Jews so had different backgrounds to a majority of the people already in the country
Policies towards immigration
Emergency quota act of 1921 - limited immigration numbers from outside the western part of the world. Each country could send 3 percent of their number of people living in the USA in 1920.
National origins act was passed - lowered quota, reduced it for 3 percent to 2 percent
Impact of immigration policies
Immigration numbers felll rapidly
Border control was set up
The red scare
Americans feared communism due to Russian revolution and encouragement form Comintern
Felt immigrants brought anarchist and communist ideas with them
3600 strikes across America from underpaid workers
40 mail bombs were found addressed to important politicians
Eight bomb attacks including one outside the house of Alexander palmer
The palmer raids
Set up general intelligence divison which later became part of the fbi
Created to spy on members of radical groups
They took action and began to arrest
These raids continued and began to take place in 33 cities on any groups that palmer and hoover believed to be radical
Jim crow laws
Segregated society
Educational availability limited to black schools
Lynch mobbing
Black Americans suspected of crimes were kidnapped and lynched, burned or beaten without trial
The great migration to the north
Around 1.5 million black people migrated to northern cities to escape racism
However they did not find equality on teh north, most people had unskilled jobs and low wages meaning they had to live in large ghettos with poor housing qualities
In effect this ment people began to be unlegistated segregated by their wealth
The organisation of the ku klux klhan
