Red Scare

time in the roaring twenties when some left wing political parties started to gain influence, and as a result, the government became politically conservative

Harding, a Republican candidate, ran promoting three central ideas

• isolationism - to become self-sufficient and retreat from other countries affairs

• nativism - to favour the existing dominant culture and reduce immigration

• reduction in government involvement in the lives of the citizens

Coolidge, the following President, also promoted these ideas, adding even more economic policies reflecting laissez-faire capitalism

Coolidge passed the Immigration Act in 1924 to further reduce immigration