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2. Racism, Anti-Semitism and the KKK
3. Anti-Immigration Sentiments and Policies
4. Similarities to and differences from today's immigration sentiments and Policies
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5 million
What was the number of KKK members in the 1920s?
100
The name for the people who came to the US between 1880 and 1920.
What are New Immigrants?
100
What % of immigrants living in the US during the 1920s was allowed in each year?
2%
200
What was the law called that Black Americans had to follow
What is Jim Crow Law?
200
The movement that attempted to make immigrants learn English and blend in with the people already in the US.
What is the Americanization movement?
200
What continent was mostly banned from immigrating to the US in the 1920s?
Asia
300
The KKK's leader during the 1920s
Who is Joseph Simmons?
300
The term that favored people born in the US or old immigrants over new immigrants.
What is nativism?
300
How many immigrants did we allow in 2013?
675,000
400
Social Clubs, employment opportunities and real estate
What were Jews excluded from?
400
Limited the amount of people allowed to immigrate to the US to 2%.
What is the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924?
400
What percent of the current immigration cap is allowed for each nationality?
7%
500
Posted an article in his paper expressing his views about Jews being the cause to many of America's problems.
Who is Henry Ford?
500
The percentage for the Emergency Quota Act was based on this.
What is the US Census of 1910?
500
What was the immigration cap in the 1921?
350,000