a society in conflict

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AMERICA IN THE 1920's

• a society in conflict

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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH TASKS

• The Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
• The case of Sacco and Vanzetti
• The immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924

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Rememberthis is what the course guide expects
you to know/understand

• Political and social tensions (the KKK,
  immigration policy, the Red Scare) relating to
  conflicts arising out of the reactions of white
  Anglo-Saxon Protestant US citizens to social
  change and to racial tensions.
• The reasons for the Red Scare and how it
  developed in the USA via, for example, the Palmer
  Raids.
• Why Congress passed the Emergency Immigration Law
  in 1921 and the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act in
  1924, and to the tensions these laws both reduced
  and exacerbated.
• How the Sacco and Vanzetti case reflected racial
  tensions.

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Your task (s)

• Background explaining the reasons why these
  events occurred in the first place
• A narrative describing what actually happened and
  who the key personalities involved were. Include
  pictures, quotes, headlines from the period if
  you can
• An explanation of what these events reveal about
  the nature of American society during the 1920s

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Resources

• These events are covered in chapter 5 of your
  textbook
• Use the websites listed in your course
  bookletand.
• http//newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/
• http//www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1343.html
• http//www.writing.upenn.edu/afilreis/88/sacvan.h
  tml
• http//www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/sacc
  o.vanzetti/
• http//www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/S
  accoV/SaccoV.htm
• http//www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1398.html
• http//www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/C
  ourses/so11/Race/quota_acts.htm
• Do NOT simply copy/cut paste articles from
  websites
• COMPLETED BY TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER