Immigration After WWI
Immigration to the U.S. wasn’t really a problem until the early 1900’s. When mass amounts of immigrants started to come to America the government started to see a problem. They were coming from a lot of European countries that were in peril economically, socially, and militarily. As more and more people immigrated tension developed between the cultures within America which caused the “clash of cultures.” Various events after World War I, such as the recession of 1920 to 1921, the First Red Scare, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the furor surrounding the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, and organized opposition to immigration intensified the "clash of cultures." To go along with the “clash of culture” in America, the American people wanted to “Americanize” the immigrants and change them to be more like the culture here. Also, people started to believe in Americanism and nativism which are the beliefs that people born in America that follow the American culture were superior to people who were born in another country. Some Americans even formed anti-immigrant groups to try to ban or limit immigration into America.
Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print
"Immigration in the Early 1900s." Immigration in the Early 1900s. Eye Witness to History, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. <http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm>.
Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print
"Immigration in the Early 1900s." Immigration in the Early 1900s. Eye Witness to History, n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2013. <http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/snpim1.htm>.
This video shows the conditions and process immigrants had to go through to get into the U.S. through first hand pictures and video.