Guide RISE OF NATIVISM 1. Red Scare ➢ Eugene Debs -Socialist leader -Imprisoned ➢ Palmer Raids -US Attorney General Mitchell Palmer -Hunted down communists‚ socialists‚ and anarchists (People who opposed any form of gov’t) -Many foreigners deported -Trampled civil rights ➢ Mail Bombings -Many bombs were mailed to gov’t and business leaders -Public became fearful of Communism taking over -Led to Palmer Raids ➢ Sacco & Vanzetti -Italian immigrants and anarchists -Arrested for robbery and
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The riot ended with a hundred to two hundred dead‚ mostly being of African-Americans. Within the 1920s‚ the African-Americans weren’t the only people known to be racially oppressed. The Palmer Raids was said to be started because of the bombing of Alexander Palmer’s‚ a prosecutors‚ house. The Palmer Raids were known to be the raiding of immigrants‚ where they were forcibly deported to their home countries. Because of fear of outside influences‚ this led to the restrictions on immigration
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1920’s "The best of times‚ the worst of times." The 1920’s was not a "roaring" time for immigrants and citizens of America. It harbored some of the harshest laws and brutal government restrictions. Immigrants were cast out by a post war country and alcohol banned in hopes of making our country purer. The 1920 was not the best of times. The prohibition of alcohol in the United States lasted from 1920 until 1932. The movement began in the late nineteenth century‚ and was fueled by the formation
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Service Act Espionage and Sedition Acts Food Administration 100% Americanism American Expeditionary Force The Fourteen Points Treaty of Versailles Knox-Porter Resolution Sacco and Vanzetti The Red Scare The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 Great Migration Palmer Raids The Polar Bear Expedition Election of 1924 Racial Nationalism Essays: 1. How was the American West related to the development of U.S. foreign policy during the late 1800s and early 1900s? 2. How did American understandings of race and citizenship
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They worked much in the same right as Palmer‚ as far as unconstitutional practices were concerned. "American Foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian Foreign policy: whatever the Russians did‚ we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted under a kind of upside-down Russian
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it people feared communism within the United States. With the recent bomb threats and radicalism of groups such as the IWW‚ strong in the United States‚ there came an urge in the public to the repeal of such radical tendencies. The Palmer raids‚ led by A. Mitchell Palmer‚ one of the victims of a bomb threat‚ worked to uncover thousands of communists on May Day. This led to nothing major. After this incident‚ fears in America concerning slavery subsided. However‚ Communism fears were already instilled
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Department of Justice in alien registration. Hoover got promoted to the head of the General Intelligence Division where he noted radical activities like The Red Scare. Hoover was now perfect because of the public’s focus on the purposefully exploited Palmer Raids. He scored another promotion with his skills and diligence to assistant director of Bureau of Investigation. When it was renamed to the FBI in 1935 he then became director by Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone. He kept this position until his
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Documentary facts Negroes were proud to be black The people were more acceptant of the African American culture Business‚ industry‚ culture Another america in the 1920’s had only candle and lanterns until electricity came Surge of new power went to new cities first Cars gave American freedom to leave Women started to wear more revealing stuff In Tennessee first law in the country ‚ to prohibit teacher from teaching evolution Fundamentalist people who believe that every you believe
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Chapter 20: Politics of the Roaring Twenties Section 1: Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues -A desire for normality after the war and a fear of communism and “foreigners” led to postwar isolationism. Postwar Trends -The economy was down. *Nativism- prejudiced against foreign-born people. *Isolationism- a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs. Fear of Communism *Communism- an economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship
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Can’t say anything bad about the war Schenck vs. United States- Can’t help people get out of being drafted Great Migration- blacks moving north (race riots) Slackers- Label people they don’t like and get rid of them The Palmer Raids Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer persecuted suspected “Reds” especially in Labor Unions (Everyone was afraid of Communists) Every time a place was raided a bomb would go off on wall street Sacco and Vanzetti (Italian Immigrant Anarchists) Tried‚ convicted
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