Title: Nativism in American Society in 1920s | talal
Headings: Nativism in American Society in 1920s
Nativism in American Society in 1920s
Background:
Immigration acts:
1921 Emergency Quota Act:
Effect:
National Origins act of 1924:
Effect:
The Revival of Ku Klux Klan:
Bibliography

Content: Background: In the 19 th Century many immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe including Ireland, Germany and Scandinavian countries, many immigrants on West Coast were from China (O’Neil, 2005, p.71). Around 1890s, the ethnic make-up of immigrants changed and many people started coming to US from Eastern and Southern European Countries including Slavs, Hungarians, Southern Italians, Greeks, Romanians and Eastern European Jews. From 1892 to 1910, 17 million immigrants passed from Elis Island. By 1910, these immigrants and their children born in America made up 40-50% of US population (O’Neil, 2005, p.71). It was not long before the Old immigrants (and the influential ones too that is Northern Europeans) began to assume that those from Southern and Eastern Europe were bringing nothing except the dirt, disease. However, there are certain occasions in American History that led to this sentiment (O’Neil, 2005, p.72). After the WW1, the dominant white Protestants or Northern Europeans living in America feared that the Southern and Eastern Europeans would take up their jobs as they were willing to work on low wages. Also, at the time American society was gripped with the Red scare, that is people thought that communist revolution like that in Russia might also take place in US. Interestingly, some started suspecting Jewish and those form Slavic (Ethnic group of Indian-Europe descent including Russians, Poles and Bulgarians) Regions of Eastern Europe and viewed them as Bolsheviks, referring to the political party that led the communist revolution in Russia in 1917.