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america 1919-48
prejudice and intolerance in 1920's America
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immigration in America was at an all time high between which years?
1901 - 1910
From which areas of Europe did
immigrants
come from between 1901 - 1910?
ireland, germany and france
What were these immigrants escaping from?
poverty
and
persecution
America had always
prided
itself as being
known
as the
melting pot
More established
immigrants
came from where?
ireland, germany and france
In the 1920s racist attitudes were made worse due to an increase in the fear of what?
communism
What had happened in 1917 which fuelled this fear?
russian
revolution
What did American people therefore fear that immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe would do?
bring similar
radical
ideas to the
USA
This fear of
communism
was known as the
red scare
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