Nativism,+Immigration+Restrictions,+and+the+Red+Scare

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Nativism, Immigration Restrictions, and the Red Scare were dividing elements in the 1920's because nativism didn't allow for different lifestyles and immigration was limited. The first red scare was from 1919 to 1920, which was when Americans feared communists, socialists, and anarchists, after a series of bombings by anarchists.

Nativism -The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) were opposed to the Jewish, Catholics, black people, and immigrants. The KKK consisted of native born, traditional Americans that felt threatened by the new culture brought by liberal Americans and other people that were entering the US.

media type="youtube" key="mvO_wGL75CI" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="8RZbmeiYkJ0" height="350" width="428" Immigration - Due to overpopulation and poverty, immigrants lived in unsanitary tenements and in terrible conditions. Adults as well as children began working to uphold their family. Tension arose between native born Americans and immigrants, who were taking the jobs of the Americans, and the KKK moved in to persuade the government to fix the problem. The government responded to their actions by passing The Emergency Quota Act of 1921, which restricted the number of immigrants where only 3% of each existing nationality already in the US were allowed. This law favored Northern and Western Europeans, since they were considered the superior race. The Red Scare was a socialist revolution and political radicalism that took place from 1918 to 1920. In April of 1919, authorities discovered a plot to mail 36 bombs to prominent U.S political members. Later, in 1919, 8 bombs went of at the same time but the only death was that of a bomber, who was a radical from Pennsylvania. After this bomb scare, the US Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer issued the Palmer raids to find the rest of the bombs. Ironically President Wilson pressured congress to pass The Sedition Act of 1918, which stated that "undesirable political people" could be deported. As a result of the Red Scare, the parties that were trying to gain followers by these radical movements ended up losing many followers because they went too far with the bombs.

Nativism and Immigration restrictions are still around today. One example of both nativism and immigration restrictions is last year when fully armed local militia patrolled the mexican border to send back illegal immigrants. They said they were doing this because the immigrants were of mexican descent.