THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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The government feared the growth of communism and a possible revolution.
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The government was trying to force all immigrants to speak English at all times
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The government believed the immigrant class was solely responsible for America’s illegal drinking problem
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The government was attempting to rid the country of disease, believing immigrants carried the plague
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enraged by the bombings, the United States government responded by raiding the headquarters of radical organizations and arresting thousands of suspected radicals. Several thousand who were aliens were deported. The largest raids occurred on January 2, 1920 when over 4000 suspected radicals were seized nationwide.
Detailed explanation-2: -The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Red Scare, radical anarchist bombings, and the Sacco & Vanzetti trial led to a rise in nativism – the dislike of foreigners. Nativists believed white Protestant Americans were superior to others. These nativist attitudes would bring restrictions on immigration.