1) America Post WWI Video Lecture.
1. What was the Red Scare:
- fear of communism
- labor unions are adopting communist ideas
2. What was the American reaction to the Red Scare:
- Palmer raids: Palmer brings Hoover as an
assistant and hunts down suspected communists and anarchists
- foreigners are deported during this time
- teachers had to sign loyalty oaths
- wall street was bombed
3. What did the Sacco and Venzetti Case show about America?:
- court case: two Italians charged
with murder and robbery
- evidence circumstantial but both found guilty even with good alibis
- evidence was not important, Italian heritage was determining factor
4. What were the social reactions to the fear of Immigrants in American society - rise of the KKK:
harassed any groups that were not like themselves, proponents of nativism, pro-WASP
- birth of a nation: evidence of power of media
- quota system: set up by congress, pressured to limit immigration from certain countries,
purpose was to cut immigration to the US
- quota act 1921: immigration limited to 3% of the total population of the US
- immigration act 1924: lowers rate to 2%
- targets mostly eastern and southern Europe
- fear of communism
- labor unions are adopting communist ideas
2. What was the American reaction to the Red Scare:
- Palmer raids: Palmer brings Hoover as an
assistant and hunts down suspected communists and anarchists
- foreigners are deported during this time
- teachers had to sign loyalty oaths
- wall street was bombed
3. What did the Sacco and Venzetti Case show about America?:
- court case: two Italians charged
with murder and robbery
- evidence circumstantial but both found guilty even with good alibis
- evidence was not important, Italian heritage was determining factor
4. What were the social reactions to the fear of Immigrants in American society - rise of the KKK:
harassed any groups that were not like themselves, proponents of nativism, pro-WASP
- birth of a nation: evidence of power of media
- quota system: set up by congress, pressured to limit immigration from certain countries,
purpose was to cut immigration to the US
- quota act 1921: immigration limited to 3% of the total population of the US
- immigration act 1924: lowers rate to 2%
- targets mostly eastern and southern Europe