Immigration (1 janv. 1920 – 31 déc. 1929)

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Immigration
- The freedom, prosperity, free land, and educational institutions of American pushed many Europeans fleeing poverty and persecution to migrate and pursue the American Dream
- To limit this, the US government placed immigration quotas at 150,000 and required tests to only allow English-speaking immigrants from similar cultures in
- Immigrants were still seen as foreigners, and largely did not share the prosperity of the boom
- The Sacco and Vanzetti case, where two Italians were convicted and executed for robbery and murder based on shaky grounds, showed the scale anti-immigration and anti-anarchism sentiment, causing widespread protests
- When Russia became communist in the wake of economic hardship after WWII, there were fears of European or Russian immigrants bringing such ideals to America, leading to the "red scare"
- After a terrorist attack by communist immigrants, thousands were unjustly deported

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