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INTOLERANCE IN THE 1920'S

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(USA 1919-1937) Mind Map on INTOLERANCE IN THE 1920'S, created by hannahbishop95 on 05/06/2014.

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INTOLERANCE IN THE 1920'S

The KKK
1. Believed in the supremacy of WASP's
  1. Anti-black
  2. Anti-Jew
  3. Anti-Catholic
2. Frightened black people
  1. Powerful members
3. Lynched blacks
  1. Set fire to black and Catholic churches and homes
4. 1925: 5 million members
5. After 1925 membership declined
  1. Leaders involved in scandals
Attitudes to immigrants
1. Hostile
2. WW1 = Anti-German
  1. Keep out 'violent' Europeans
3. Benefit of illiterate foreigners?
4. Immigrants taking jobs?
  1. Cheap labour
The Red Scare
1. Feared the spread of Communism
2. Immigrants = communists and anarchists?
3. Fears fueled by workers and police strikes
  1. Boston & Seattle
4. Mitchell Palmer, attorney general had his house bombed
  1. = Palmer raids
    1. 6,000 suspected Communists to be sent back to Europe
      1. (Most found not guilty and stayed)
Sacco and Vanzetti
1. Two Italian immigrants
  1. Accused of armed robbery and murder
    1. Evidence was flimsy
2. Judge Thayer (racist) found them guilty
  1. 107 witnesses placing them elsewhere
3. They owned 'similar guns'
4. They 'acted guiltily' when arrested
5. 'Italian looking'
6. They were executed
The Monkey Trial
1. Christian Fundamentalists in Bible Belt
2. Believed everything in the Bible was true
3. Banned the teaching of evolution
  1. Wearing swimsuits
  2. Kissing in public
4. John Scopes taught evolution anyway
  1. Put on trial
    1. He was found guilty
    2. Lawyer showed how absurd the Fundamentalists case was

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