History 4301E Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Chinese Exclusion Act, Committee On Public Information, American Protective Association
22 Feb 2016
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Lecture the united states and the first world. Remained a federal law for 4 decades. Believed the american people had to acquire a unity and a patriotism that they lacked. Cpi prompted many to ask how well the ideals of liberty and democracy had been realized in america, and how many. Government supported attacks on german americans (anti-immigrant sentiments) prohibition (sharpen restrictions on the civil rights of japanese immigrants in the western states) Fbi, american protective association (apa) outing bolsheviks germans: red scare propaganda campaign. ***immigration restrictions did not require a huge policing apparatus: americans projecting their fears of the nation"s alleged enemies translating their anxieties into harsh, repressive legislation. Before 1917 us had been restricting immigration in two ways: established the principle of group exclusion. Restricting or excluding an entire nationality because of unwelcome ascriptive traits or collective behaviours that were alleged to be characteristics of it.
