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.