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: 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. Then on one occasion the participation of Eastern Europeans in one of the strikes against steel industries helped people strengthen their views that the immigrants were trying to import communism to US (O’Neil, 2005, p.72). Later on certain bombings took place at the end of that decade (including the one in New York City, killing 28 and injuring 100). Involvement of foreign hand was suspected and immigrants were viewed as anarchists. In fact, at one point, hundreds of immigrants were arrested and deported as well (O’Neil, 2005, p.73). Later in July 1921, two Italians were convicted in robbery and murder case and later executed.