civil rights violations during the ‘20s
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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.