prejudice and intolerance in 1920's America

• 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