Chapter 34 American Life in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 34 American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1919-1929
Insulting America from the Radical Virus
Americans shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries, and denounced crazy foreign ideas, condemned un-American lifestyles and clanged shut he immigration gates against foreign people.
After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 which caused a small communist party in the USA. Caused a lot of strikes.
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 caused Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer (Fighting Quaker) to round up a 6 thousand suspects. Caused the radicals to be driven out and then redoubled in June 1919 when a bomb went off.
December 1919, 249 alleged alien radicals were deported on the Budford.
Critics protested that words were not criminal deeds
The Red Scare severely cut back free speech for a period, since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists and their ideas.
Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK
Ku Klu Klan spawed from the postwar reaction grew in 1920. anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control.
The Klan spread in the Midwest and the South.
It claimed 5 million people
Stemming the Foreign Flood
In 1920-192, 800,000 people came about 2/3 of them were from southern and eastern Europe.
The people from Europe were restricted in any given year to a definite quota (3%). Cut from 3%-2% in 1921.
Stopgap legislation of 1921 was replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924.
Immigration dwindled to almost none.
Makers of America - The Poles
The Poles were the largest immigrant group responsible for industrializing America’s call for needed labor. They began to develop a new identity as Polish-Americans. During the Revolution 100 Poles served in the continental army. Most Poles traveling to the USA moved to larger cities such as, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Chicago.
Insulting America from the Radical Virus
Americans shunned diplomatic commitments to foreign countries, and denounced crazy foreign ideas, condemned un-American lifestyles and clanged shut he immigration gates against foreign people.
After the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 which caused a small communist party in the USA. Caused a lot of strikes.
The Red Scare of 1919-1920 caused Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer (Fighting Quaker) to round up a 6 thousand suspects. Caused the radicals to be driven out and then redoubled in June 1919 when a bomb went off.
December 1919, 249 alleged alien radicals were deported on the Budford.
Critics protested that words were not criminal deeds
The Red Scare severely cut back free speech for a period, since the hysteria caused many people to want to eliminate any Communists and their ideas.
Hooded Hoodlums of the KKK
Ku Klu Klan spawed from the postwar reaction grew in 1920. anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, anti-revolutionist, anti-bootlegger, anti-gambling, anti-adultery, and anti-birth control.
The Klan spread in the Midwest and the South.
It claimed 5 million people
Stemming the Foreign Flood
In 1920-192, 800,000 people came about 2/3 of them were from southern and eastern Europe.
The people from Europe were restricted in any given year to a definite quota (3%). Cut from 3%-2% in 1921.
Stopgap legislation of 1921 was replaced by the Immigration Act of 1924.
Immigration dwindled to almost none.
Makers of America - The Poles
The Poles were the largest immigrant group responsible for industrializing America’s call for needed labor. They began to develop a new identity as Polish-Americans. During the Revolution 100 Poles served in the continental army. Most Poles traveling to the USA moved to larger cities such as, Buffalo, Pittsburg, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Chicago.