AP US History Chapter 31 Essential Questions
Ch. 31
1. America turned to domestic isolation and social conservatism because of the Red Scare. The Red Scare cut back free speech, in which the hysteria caused many to want to eliminate the communists. Some states made it illegal to advocate overthrowing the government. From 1920 to 1921 about 800,000 Europeans named New Immigrants flooded into the US. Because of this Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 which only allowed 3 percent of Europeans to come the US. Soon after, the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed cutting the 3 percent to 2 percent. This also ended all Japanese immigration. The US was anti-Europe and in this case they decided to isolate themselves from Europe.
2. Immigration became a big thing in the US. Europeans began flooding into the US and many were having a problem with it. The KKK reemerged again and this time fighting for America. Congress passed numerous Immigration Acts and this almost ruled out immigration. Prohibition was a long, fought cause that women supported. A Prohibition law was only for people to continue to violate it. Prohibition led to the rise in gangs. With gangs entailed murder and massacre. Black saw the happier side if things and began making music and doing things to entertain others.
3. Many thought immigration would hurt the country. In the 1920’s, after WWI, people were anti-Europe. Immigration was only a problem now because the immigrants were coming from Europe. Immigrants were believed to not be trusted. The KKK advocated that immigrants were responsible for crime. They also believed that immigrants brought along with them ideals of communism. Immigrants were seen as a great threat to society.
4. America did not like immigrants to begin with. With the pressure put on them to “Americanize” was not true to America. Europeans were part of a different culture. In a world with cultural pluralism, every culture would be accepting of one another. Everyone would understand what it is to be from a
1. America turned to domestic isolation and social conservatism because of the Red Scare. The Red Scare cut back free speech, in which the hysteria caused many to want to eliminate the communists. Some states made it illegal to advocate overthrowing the government. From 1920 to 1921 about 800,000 Europeans named New Immigrants flooded into the US. Because of this Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 which only allowed 3 percent of Europeans to come the US. Soon after, the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed cutting the 3 percent to 2 percent. This also ended all Japanese immigration. The US was anti-Europe and in this case they decided to isolate themselves from Europe.
2. Immigration became a big thing in the US. Europeans began flooding into the US and many were having a problem with it. The KKK reemerged again and this time fighting for America. Congress passed numerous Immigration Acts and this almost ruled out immigration. Prohibition was a long, fought cause that women supported. A Prohibition law was only for people to continue to violate it. Prohibition led to the rise in gangs. With gangs entailed murder and massacre. Black saw the happier side if things and began making music and doing things to entertain others.
3. Many thought immigration would hurt the country. In the 1920’s, after WWI, people were anti-Europe. Immigration was only a problem now because the immigrants were coming from Europe. Immigrants were believed to not be trusted. The KKK advocated that immigrants were responsible for crime. They also believed that immigrants brought along with them ideals of communism. Immigrants were seen as a great threat to society.
4. America did not like immigrants to begin with. With the pressure put on them to “Americanize” was not true to America. Europeans were part of a different culture. In a world with cultural pluralism, every culture would be accepting of one another. Everyone would understand what it is to be from a