Immigration Restrictions
WASPs
White Anglo Saxon Protestants
What is religious fundamentalism?
Conservative desire to return the country to stricter religious practices in response to progressivism.
Volstead Act 1919
Banned the sales and public consumption of alcohol in America
KKK
Ku Klux Klan
What global event in 1917 spread fears of Communism?
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
How many immigrants arrived in American by 1920?
40million
White religious preacher who would travel the country?
Billy Sunday
The lobby group that pressured the government to prohibit alcohol
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (or just Temperance Union).
What was Black Wall Street?
Site of the Tulsa Race Massacre that destroyed a thriving Black town in Oklahoma.
How did immigration fuel fears of communism?
Immigrants and new workers were from southern and eastern Europe.
What is nativism?
The idea that White Americans are native to the land as they 'tamed' and developed the country
Name two concerns that cause religious tensions in America?
Flappers, Roaring Twenties, Consumerism, Changing popular culture, drinking (or anything else)
Secret bars where people consumed alcohol
Total members of the KKK during its Second Wave
5 million
Unionism was considered unAmerican because?
Unions took away the right of the individual.
Immigration intake of any group was limited to 3% of the number of that group’s nationals that were present in the US in 1910.
1921 Emergency Immigration Law
Religious fundamentalism came from which part of US society?
Rural areas. This highlighted the rural/urban divide.
What was the increase in the homicide rate during Prohibition?
5.6 to 8.4 homicides per 100,000
Groups targeting by the KKK
What were the Palmer Raids?
Homes and offices of union officials were raiding during the Red Scare of 1919-1920.
Immigration quota reduced to 2% from 1890 (deliberately aimed to discriminate against newer groups)
1924 Johnson-Reed Act
Scopes Trial 1925
Scopes, a high school science teacher, was charged with teaching evolution, a theory which contradicts the bible. (God created all life, not nature). As a result, many states (mostly southern) made it illegal to teach evolution in school across America.
The man responsible for a gang related mass shooting in Chicago on Feb 14 1929
Al Capone and the St Valentine's Day Massacre
Republicans and FDR failed to suppress the KKK because...
Southern political leaders, including Democrats, were high level KKK members and political leaders needed their support.
Red Scare...
Mass hysteria and fear of communism taking over America.