Ch. 19 The rise of social unrest in the US after WWI

Cottrill

Great migration

6 Million African Americans moved out of the rural southern United States to the urban, Midwest, and west

Jim crow laws

Discriminated against AF - AM separated facilities from bathrooms to hospitals

Plessy V Ferguson

supreme court decision that made separate but equal and helped strength by Jim crow laws

Lynchings

Executions by a mob of people

Nativists

Those “born” or “native” to the US - believed people to other races, religions, and nationalism were inferior.

Ethnocentrism

Belief that ones own race is superior to others

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)/ gentlemen’s agreement (1907)

some of the earliest anti - immigration laws mostly focused on Asians once the transcontinental RR was done their labor wasn’t needed

The immigration Acts of 1921,1924, and 1929

Established strict quotes or the total # allowed in American from southern and eastern Europe.

“Red scare” 1919- 1920

led to the deportation of many aliens foreigners. The end of WWl brought new fears to many Americans of communists, anarchists, and immigrants.

Palmer Raids

Rounding up thousands of suspected communists and anarchists 600 were deported.

Sacco and Vanzetti case

Two men were convicted of a murder that they did not commit. Used as examples during the red scare.