Backlash To The 1920s (History Worksheet)

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20
Century
Name: ________________________________
th
Ms. Shen
Backlash to the Roaring ‘20s
I.
Origins
a. While some embraced the rapidly changing culture of the 1920s, others were terrified of the
changes around them. WHY?
II. Continued Immigration Restriction and Nativism
a. Problem with immigrants:
i. Wanted to put in place quotas on certain groups
ii. WWI propaganda had successfully stereotyped foreigners as radicals = prompt a
resurgence of nativism
b. Red Scare (Communism): Fear of the ___________________ threat – became real in the years
after the Russian Revolution and the rise of Lenin.
i. Immigration led to the proliferation of Communism in America
ii. Associate union activity with Communism and anarchism
iii. Fear of Communism fed off of Americans’ fear & resentment of immigrants
c. In the 1920s, Congress established annual immigration quotas that favored Anglo-Saxons but kept
out blacks, Asians, South-Eastern Europeans, Slavs, Jews.
d. Immigration Act of 1924:
i. Restricted new arrivals how?
1. It all but eliminated the flow of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe,
and it effectively excluded all immigration from most of Asia until World War II.
e. The Sacco & Vanzetti case:
i. April 15, 1920, a paymaster and his guard were robbed of $16,000 and murdered in South
Braintree, MA. Shortly after, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (avowed anarchists)
were arrested and indicted by a grand jury.
ii. Witnesses identified the 2 as the killers BUT 20 witnesses put Vanzetti at his fish stall in
Plymouth at the time of the murder, while the Italian consul in Boston said Sacco was with
him at the time of the murders as well.
iii. Problems with the trial: (LIST 2)

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