 What do the following words mean? Write definitions down in your own words.
1.
Dependency
2.
Regulations
3.
Uprisings
 You may use your phone or a dictionary to look up words you don’t know. 4.
Anti-Immigration
5.
Drastically
6.
Increased

T H E U . S . A F T E R W W I : T H E R E D S C A R E , T H E
G R E A T M I G R A T I O N A N D R A C E R E L A T I O N S

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Before this unit, we learned about the rise of the United
States as a world power. During this unit we will study about the post-World War I “return to normalcy” characterized by a resurgence of big business, political scandal, and the economic boom that is characterized by high production levels and mass consumerism.
Additionally we will examine the social and cultural changes of the 1920s that reflect the heightened tension between supporters of traditional values and supporters of modern values . We will end the unit with the Stock Market crash as it marks the end of the
1920’s economic boom and transitions to The Great
Depression.

WW I – Post war trends
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 soldiers returned and faced unemployment or took old jobs back
farmers & factory workers suffered as production slowed after the WWI
nativism on the rise – prejudice towards foreign-born people
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isolationism becomes popular – pulling away from involvement in world affairs
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Anti-Communism sentiment

 During World War I, the
Russian government was overthrown and replaced with the communist government called The
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (U.S.S.R.). We did not agree with the way this government transitioned and we did not agree with this government political philosophy of
communism.

 After World War I, our distrust of the communist
USSR developed as we became concerned about the development of communism at home. This will lead us to the “Red Scare.”

 There were a large part of the population who were afraid of communists during the Red Scare. What do you think was their stance on immigration?

 The Red Scare also led to more Nativist sentiments in the U.S. This led to the deportation of many
immigrants and Immigration Quotas .

 Communism – economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship.
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Red Scare – fear of communism in the
United States.

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Mitchell Palmer – (U.S.
Attorney General) took steps to stop the Red Scare.
Hunted down communist, socialist, and anarchist and put them in jail and deported them.
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Immigration Quotaslimited the amount of people that could enter the U.S. from each foreign country.

 There was a Great Migration of African Americans from the rural south into the urban north. Make a prediction: What do you think was a major push factor and a major pull factor for African
Americans to migrate north?
 Push Factor= A negative reason that makes a person leave their home.
 Pull Factor= A positive reason that would make a person go to a new place.

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The Great Migration of African Americans to the
North roughly 1910-1930)- The movement of African-
Americans from the south to northern cities.

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Causes:
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 escape racism and discrimination left sharecropping and tenant farming in the
South to work in industrial centers in the
Northeast and Midwest
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Effect:
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A large increase in the
African American population of cities like
Chicago, Cleveland,
Detroit and New York
City.

Race Relations, Nativism and
Immigration
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Immigration continues in the U.S.
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Cause – immigrants sought a better life in the
United States; to escape poverty, religious discrimination, etc.
Effect – increased
population; cities overcrowded; labor force for factories, etc.

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Race relations and
Nativism
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Cause – increase of immigration (especially
Asian immigrants)
“natives” worried the immigrants would take jobs as cheap labor especially in response to declining economic growth following the end of World War I.
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Race relations and
Nativism
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Effect –
 discrimination against all minorities
 heightened racial tensions
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Ku Klux Klan flourished
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Red Scare spreads
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Support of Social
Darwinism

Immigration Quotas

Race Relations, Nativism and
Immigration
 Ku Klux Klan (KKK) – opposed Immigrants,
Blacks, opposing unions, Roman Catholics, Jews, foreign born people out the country.

Race Relations, Nativism and
Immigration
 National Origins
Quota Act of 1921 - As a result of World War I,
Congress passed the
National Origins Quota
Act in 1921. This law set the quota of legal immigrants to 3% of their current ethnic makeup in the United
States. This quota was changed three years later.

Race Relations, Nativism and
Immigration
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Other Quota Systems
– limited the amount of people that could enter the U.S. from each foreign country.
The law prohibited
Japanese immigration all together.
The system did not apply to people that lived in the
Western Hemisphere

Would the KKK support this?
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National Origins Quota Act of 1921
15 th Amendment ( cannot deny right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude)
Chinese Exclusion Act
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American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 (Made all Native
American citizens officially an American Citizen)
19 th Amendment (women’s right to vote)