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Nativism, Immigration Restrictions and the Red Scare

__ Thesis __: The Red Scare was a dividing factor in America because it caused people to question their fellow Americans and it caused large-scale panic. Many people were afraid that any communists in America would cause a revolution the like of what happened in Russia, so they would turn people in or ostracize members of the community who were perceived as communists. __NATIVISM__: media type="youtube" key="eSV5_nzxo0s" height="367" width="460" align="right" After the first world war
 * People in America Denounced any foreign "radical ideas", "un-American" lifestyles or commitments.
 * The country prospered economical but Blacks, Catholics Jews and other foreigners suffered immensely.
 * The formation of hate groups rose again (KKK)

The Ku Klux Klan
 * The second KKK was founded by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister.
 * Promoted "white supremacy and intense nativism and even anti-Catholic and anti-Semitism.
 * Controlled politics in many communities, particularly Texas, Oklahoma, Indianna, Oregon, and Maine were under its influence
 * Major Klan leader, David C. Stephenson, was convicted of second degree murder breaking the Klan's power in late 1920's.

IMMIGRATION: media type="youtube" key="Q3JToii4Aq4" height="498" width="587" align="left"

Laws and Acts/ Restrictions

Immigration Act of 1917 (or Asiatic Barred Zone Act)
 * It Barred all immigrants over the age of sixteen who were illiterate

Immigration Act of 1924 ( or Johnson-Reid Act)
 * limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States

Literacy tests were given

Emergency Quota Act of 1921
 * Limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 3%
 * **Country or Area of birth** || **Quota, 1924-1925** ||
 * Afghanistan || 100 ||
 * Albania || 100 ||
 * Armenia || 124 ||
 * Australia || 121 ||
 * Austria || 785 ||
 * Belgium || 512 ||
 * Bulgaria || 100 ||
 * China || 100 ||
 * Czechoslovakia || 3,073 ||
 * Denmark || 2,789 ||
 * Egypt || 100 ||
 * Finland || 170 ||
 * France || 3,954 ||
 * Germany || 51,227 ||
 * Great Britain and Northern Ireland || 34,007 ||
 * Greece || 100 ||
 * Hungary || 473 ||
 * Iceland || 100 ||
 * India || 100 ||
 * Iraq (Mesopotamia) || 100 ||
 * Irish Free State || 28,567 ||
 * Italy || 3,485 ||
 * Japan || 100 ||
 * Lithuania || 344 ||
 * Netherlands || 1,648 ||
 * New Zealand || 100 ||
 * Norway || 6,453 ||
 * Poland || 5,982 ||
 * Portugal || 503 ||
 * Ruanda and Urundi || 100 ||
 * Rumania || 603 ||
 * Russia, European and Asiatic || 2,248 ||
 * Spain || 131 ||
 * Sweden || 9,561 ||
 * Switzerland || 2,081 ||
 * Yugoslavia || 671 ||

RED SCARE

fear that Americans had about a communist revolution occurring on American soil
 * Appeared shortly after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917

Mitchell Palmer
 * Jan 2 1920
 * Over 30 cities raided at the same time
 * 6,000 to 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists without a trial
 * There wasn't any evidence or search warrants
 * Called the Palmer Raids
 * Helped him to be the Democratic candidate in 1920
 * Thought they would attack on May 1, 1920
 * Coined the term May day
 * He was completely wrong but never apologized to those he accused

http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/E-N/Nativism-World-war-i-and-the-1920s.html The Palmer "Red Raids", Terrorism in America, Constitutional Rights Foundation, 2002.