2. • The vast majority of Americans were either immigrants or
descendants of recent immigrants. Immigrants were flooding in, for
example Jews from eastern Europe and Russia, who were
escaping persecution.
3. In the 1920s racist attitudes towards immigrants were made worse by an increasing
fear of bolshevism or communism. The USA watched with alarm as Russia became
communist. It feared that many of the more recent immigrants from Russia and
eastern Europe were bringing similar ideas with them. This reaction was called the
Red Scare.
4. • Two high-profile victims of the Red Scare where two Italian Americans called Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. They were arrested in 1920 on suspicion of armed
robbery and murder. They were self-confessed anarchists.
5. • In 1924, in direct response to its fear of radicals, the government took action. It
restricted immigration
6. • The Ku Klux Klan was a White movement to intimidate Black
Americans. It had been in decline until, a movie called “The Birth
of a Nation” was presented in 1915, when it revived.
7. A black “capitalist” movement was starting in New York and
Chicago which encouraged people to set up businesses, also
black people were having more chances of getting a good job and
education.
8. • Many black people were living in poverty and some others were
killed. Although they had an education, it couldn´t be compared to
the one that whites were recieving.
