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Immigration in the 1920s USA
- Why immigration?
- To get away from war and poverty
- Jews fleeing persecution
- Many italians fleeing poverty-
intended to make money and
send it back home to their
families
- Most from: Great Britain,
Germany, Austria-Hungary
and Italy
- To get away from war and poverty
- Attitudes to Immigration
- America used to have an open-door policy
- 1921 Emergency Quota Act-
restricted immigration to 3% of all
immigrants
- 1924 Immigration Act reduced
immigration to 2% and set a
150,000 limit/year
- 1900-1920 -- 1.5 million
immigrants emigrated from
Europe to America
- America used to have an open-door policy
- Challenges that immigrants faced
- High levels of prejudice
against eastern europeans and
italians
- Immigrants were often
poor and un-skilled
- They lived in poor, high-crime areas
- They lived in poor, high-crime areas
- Some didn't bother to learn the language
- Often brought bad influences and political ideas- ex:
italian mafias and eastern europeans bringing
communism
- High levels of prejudice
against eastern europeans and
italians
- Sacco and Vanzetti case
- April 1920- $15,000 stolen + 2 men
killed in an armed robbery
- May 1920- Sacco and Vanzetti ( italian immigrants and anarchists)
were found in the car the police thought was used for the crime and
with 2 guns with matching bullets
- No clear evidence but case
became more against their radical
political ideas
- Prosecution used racism
- They were sentenced to death
- They were sentenced to death
- Prosecution used racism
- No clear evidence but case
became more against their radical
political ideas
- May 1920- Sacco and Vanzetti ( italian immigrants and anarchists)
were found in the car the police thought was used for the crime and
with 2 guns with matching bullets
- April 1920- $15,000 stolen + 2 men
killed in an armed robbery
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