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Civil Rights Violations during the ‘20s. Objective: Assess the reasons for the palmer raids, red scare, communism in America , KKK, and Immigration Quotas. APK. During Industrialization there was a need for immigrants to do work Worry that they would ruin American “way of life” Nativists
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Civil Rights Violations during the ‘20s Objective: Assess the reasons for the palmer raids, red scare, communism in America, KKK, and Immigration Quotas
APK • During Industrialization there was a need for immigrants to do work • Worry that they would ruin American “way of life” • Nativists • Melting Pot v Salad Bowl • Civil liberties – individual rights
Importance • After Sept 11 there was a movement of hatred against who? • Rights were taken away in the name of security • Wire tapping • Obtain library records or check out books
Importance • According to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, what was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues . . . licking the altars of the churches"? • 1. Communism. • 2. The philosophy of nativism. • 3. The hopelessness of poverty. • 4. Governmental abuse of civil rights.
Vocab • Harass • to annoy persistently • Isolationism • abstention from alliances • Communism • goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed • Quota • a fixed number or percentage of minority group members • Dominate • 1to exert the supreme determining or guiding influence on • Anarchist • a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
Nativism • After the war people turned to isolationism • Isolationism also lead to a strong nativist movement • Keep America for Americans became the new attitude for Americans • Anti-immigrant feelings started in 1880s • Gentleman’s Agreement, Chinese Exclusion Act, Anti-German/Austro Hungarian during the war
Nativism • Most immigrants were unskilled and took jobs that offered low wages • After the war fewer non-skilled jobs were available • Don’t need immigrants in the US • Believed labor unions and immigrants were communist • Main Communist color is red = RED SCARE
Quota System • Congress decided to limit immigrants from the South & Eastern Europe • Emergency Quota Act set up the Quota system • Established maximum number of people from each foreign country • Limited to 2% of countries population in 1890 • 1920 only 150,000 people from any country
KKK • Anti-Immigrant sentiment offered people the chance to harass groups that were not like them • KKK – Ku Klux Klan – devoted to 100% American • White male persons, native born gentile citizens • Believed • keeping blacks “in their place” • Destroying Saloons • Opposing Unions • Driving Roman Catholics, Jews, foreign born people out of the country
KKK • Recruited members to the clan • Dominate in the South • Controlled state politics • Allowed criminal activity • Also lead to the downfall of the clan
Red Scare • Communism caused Russia to pull out of WWI • Become leery of anything that pushes people to be equal • Get rid of capitalism because there is competition • Communist Party formed in America • Quickly made up of 70,000 people • Including members of labor unions
Red Scare • Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti • Italian immigrants and anarchists • Dodged the draft in WWI • Arrested on charges of robbery & murder • Witness said criminals appeared to be Italians • Had good alibis and bad evidence • Judge made prejudicial statements • Found guilty and sentenced to death • Gov of Mass denied a stay and they were electrocuted • 1961 bullet was from Sacco’s gun but no proof he pulled the trigger
Palmer Raids • US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • Wanted to protect America from Communism • 1919 hunted down, anarchists, socialist, Communists • Ignored civil rights to arrest people who assumed to the “enemy” • Invaded homes • Put people in jail with out cause • Didn’t allow legal counsel • Failed to find evidence of conspiracy • No bombs either
Importance • According to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, what was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues . . . licking the altars of the churches"? • 1. Communism. • 2. The philosophy of nativism. • 3. The hopelessness of poverty. • 4. Governmental abuse of civil rights.
Closure • In the 1920’s, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan and the establishment of immigration quotas reflected a re-emergence of American belief in • 1. nativism. • 2. socialism. • 3. imperialism. • 4. internationalism.
Importance • According to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, what was "eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues . . . licking the altars of the churches"? • 1. Communism. • 2. The philosophy of nativism. • 3. The hopelessness of poverty. • 4. Governmental abuse of civil rights.
Closure • In the 1920’s, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan and the establishment of immigration quotas reflected a re-emergence of American belief in • 1. nativism. • 2. socialism. • 3. imperialism. • 4. internationalism.