Prejudice and Intolerance
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In the 1920s, racist attitudes towards immigrants in the United States worsened due to a growing fear of communism and bolshevism following the Russian Revolution. Two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were arrested in 1920 for robbery and murder due to suspicions of being anarchists. In response to fears of radicals, the U.S. government restricted immigration through new laws in 1924. Black Americans also faced discrimination and intimidation from the revived Ku Klux Klan movement while some were starting to find more opportunities in business and education in cities, though many still lived in poverty and faced violence.
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Prejudice and Intolerance
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- 2. • The vast majority of Americans were either immigrants or descendants of recent immigrants. Immigrants were flooding in, for example Jews from eastern Europe and Russia, who were escaping persecution.
- 3. In the 1920s racist attitudes towards immigrants were made worse by an increasing fear of bolshevism or communism. The USA watched with alarm as Russia became communist. It feared that many of the more recent immigrants from Russia and eastern Europe were bringing similar ideas with them. This reaction was called the Red Scare.
- 4. • Two high-profile victims of the Red Scare where two Italian Americans called Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. They were arrested in 1920 on suspicion of armed robbery and murder. They were self-confessed anarchists.
- 5. • In 1924, in direct response to its fear of radicals, the government took action. It restricted immigration
- 6. • The Ku Klux Klan was a White movement to intimidate Black Americans. It had been in decline until, a movie called “The Birth of a Nation” was presented in 1915, when it revived.
- 7. A black “capitalist” movement was starting in New York and Chicago which encouraged people to set up businesses, also black people were having more chances of getting a good job and education.
- 8. • Many black people were living in poverty and some others were killed. Although they had an education, it couldn´t be compared to the one that whites were recieving.