Unit #7 The Roaring 20s LESSON #7:4 Racism of the 1920s p

Nativism Anti-immigrants policy Who do you think Americans hated most after WWI? They feared the new ____________________, and the _______________of Europe Immigration picked back up after the war, and most were coming from _________ and __________ Europe Most of them were uneducated and without _________.

Nativism How do you think Americans felt toward them? All the bombings, strikes and recession during the early 1920s was blamed on ________________ and ______________ Who do you suppose was blamed for the lack of jobs for soldiers returning from war?

Nativism Immigration policies became more ____________ Immigrants were seen as ________ Harding signed EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT into law, restricting ethnic groups to a specific # each year __________ ___________ACT made that permanent

Sacco-Vanzetti A criminal case Two men accused of _____________ Nicola _________and Bartolomeo _________ Sacco owned a gun, similar to the one used to killed the victims And both were ___________ Evidence was ____________ Found ______ – sentenced to death

Racism This led to widespread anti-immigrant movement called ____________ Nativism bled into pure ___________ for anyone who took jobs from the soldiers Many ________ Americans had moved into factory jobs in the North during the war… they were blamed, too.

Return of the Klan ( ) Klan had died out in late 1800s William Simmons founded a new version Membership soared, to ____________in just 10 years (1926) Dwindled in later 1920s

See if you can now answer… 7. What was Nativism, and why is it not very “American”? 8. What can we learn about American sentiment (feelings) from the Sacco-Vanzetti Case?