Immigration & Red Scare Flashcards
Why did Immigration become such a major issue in American society? (22 cards)
What was the name of the American policy to allow immigrants to arrive to America easily?
The Open Door Policy
Why did America adopt this policy in the early 1900s?
Provide workers and to populate.
What was the name for idea of different nationalities blending together?
The Melting Pot
Where did 70% of immigrants arrive?
Ellis Island
What was the immediate experience of most immigrants during 1920s?
More Poverty
A literacy Test for immigrants was introduced in what year?
1917
Why did America restrict immigration during 1920s?
Enough workers, racial
intolerance, religious
prejudice, Red Scare
The Emergency Quota Act limited immigration to how many per year?
357,000
When was the Immigration Origins Act?
1924
The Immigration Origins Act limited immigration to how many per year?
150,000
Immigration was difficult unless you came from where?
North West Europe
In 1919 a bomb went off which damaged the home of who?
Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney-General.
How many died to a bomb exploding on Wall Street in 1920?
38
Who did people blame for these incidents?
Communists and Anarchists.
Mitchell Palmer organised what in response?
The Palmer Raids
How many suspected Socialists and Anarchists were arrested in the raids?
6,000
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in May 1920 for what?
Armed robbery and murder.
61 witnesses for the prosecution turned up. How many for the defence?
107
Who was the ‘narrow-minded, xenophobic’ judge?
Judge Thayer
They were found guilty and sentenced to murder. After 6 years of appeals, when did they get executed by electric chair?
23rd August 1927
When were Asians banned from the US?
1917 Immigration Act
As Italian and self-confessed anarchists, their trial became about what?
Their ‘radical ideas’.
