HIST 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: American Protective Association, Leon Czolgosz, First Red Scare
6 Jul 2017
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Nativism, 1880-1924: nativism, 1880-1920"s this is the tribal 20"s turning away from anything that may be foreign most immigration legislation most anti-immigrant sentiment turning in towards oneself. Because of the roaring 20"s after the depression in 1880. But america is unscathed no one wanted to get involved with the poverty of europe people were afraid that immigrants would disrupt this. We don"t want to get too involved in the outside world to disrupt this . 1880"s depression when people go through harder times, there is a need to blame someone the scapegoat often times is immigrants immigration dips in 1890"s because of the recession railroad construction stopping lay o s. Banks closing unemployment goes up standard of living goes down native-born americans blame the immigrants blame foreign workers for coming and taking american jobs competitions. Businesses blamed immigrants for strikes saying that immigrants are the root of the unrest in the unions.
