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