The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, or a lot of people know it as the "KKK", was created in the late 1860's down south of the Americas, but it was brought up north to the united states and was "resurgenced" in the 1920's. (http://www.suite101.com/content/racism-in-the-1920s-a90186).
The main focus of people that the Klan included were known as "WASP's" or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The main target of the group: Blacks; the very poor and weak black families that were very easy to attack. Many other groups that were hated besides the black included the Catholics, Liberals, and the Jews, plus many others. (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm).
Hiram Wesley Evans, a U.S. born citizen of Alabama, and later resident of Texas, studied denistry. The university in which he studied denistry was Vanderbilt University. He later became a dentist in 1900. Two decades after this, Dr. Evans became involved in the KKK. One of the first Klansmen groups he led ended up kidnapping a bellhopper from a hotel named the Adolphus. His name was Alex Johnson, and the klansmen imprinted the letters "KKK" on his forehead using acid. (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAevansH.htm)
Not only did the KKK make the black feel vulnerable, but any white person that knew or hung out with black people were considered vulnerable to the KKK. As a result to the KKK, Black Americans decided to fight back. Their way of fighting back started as nonviolent. A cooperation title the NAACP or also known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had pleaded to Wahington about the KKK. They asked that there would be new laws that would help the Blacks fight against the KKK. They were not lucky at all in which they received little help from the government. (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm).
The KKK still exists to this day, just as smaller groups around the country and world.
The main focus of people that the Klan included were known as "WASP's" or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The main target of the group: Blacks; the very poor and weak black families that were very easy to attack. Many other groups that were hated besides the black included the Catholics, Liberals, and the Jews, plus many others. (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm).
Hiram Wesley Evans, a U.S. born citizen of Alabama, and later resident of Texas, studied denistry. The university in which he studied denistry was Vanderbilt University. He later became a dentist in 1900. Two decades after this, Dr. Evans became involved in the KKK. One of the first Klansmen groups he led ended up kidnapping a bellhopper from a hotel named the Adolphus. His name was Alex Johnson, and the klansmen imprinted the letters "KKK" on his forehead using acid. (http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAevansH.htm)
Not only did the KKK make the black feel vulnerable, but any white person that knew or hung out with black people were considered vulnerable to the KKK. As a result to the KKK, Black Americans decided to fight back. Their way of fighting back started as nonviolent. A cooperation title the NAACP or also known as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had pleaded to Wahington about the KKK. They asked that there would be new laws that would help the Blacks fight against the KKK. They were not lucky at all in which they received little help from the government. (http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/kkk_and_racial_problems.htm).
The KKK still exists to this day, just as smaller groups around the country and world.
Anti-Immigration Policies
Before the First World War, the gates to America for immigrants was wide open! We were welcoming immigrants into our country so that our population would grow and we could grow as a country in economical times as well (make more money). (Classroom discussions and notes).
As a country, we had over one million immigrants that came into the United States. They brought many things with them from their home country. These things included certain customs and traditions along with foreign languages. So many different cultures were brought and introduced to the United States during this time. These open doors were only open for a certain period of time before Congress passed a legislation. This legislation made new neighborhoods in the giant cities. These new neighborhoods separated the immigrants from the rest American citizen population, while at the same time keeping the immigrants together so they may keep to their own customs and participate in their culture and other acitivites.
After three hundred years of the United States having wide open the doors, the National Origins Act of 1921 was passed. The National Origins Act had limited all of the immigration taking place in the United States any year to three percent of the number of foreign-born members. These foreign members were part of a nationality group as shown in the 1910 census. A part of the 1910 census is in the upper left hand corner.
The 1929 act had led to many complaints. These complaints consisted that the act was letting in way to many immigrants of certain races. These races included the Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jew, and Greeks. Due to these complaints a new act was made. This act was called the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924. The point of this act was to reduce the number of immigrants let into the country. That's exactly what it did. Quotas were reduced to as low as two percent of the 1890 census. The reason the 1890 census was chosen was bcause it was a much smaller number.
(http://www.suite101.com/content/racism-in-the-1920s-a90186).
As a country, we had over one million immigrants that came into the United States. They brought many things with them from their home country. These things included certain customs and traditions along with foreign languages. So many different cultures were brought and introduced to the United States during this time. These open doors were only open for a certain period of time before Congress passed a legislation. This legislation made new neighborhoods in the giant cities. These new neighborhoods separated the immigrants from the rest American citizen population, while at the same time keeping the immigrants together so they may keep to their own customs and participate in their culture and other acitivites.
After three hundred years of the United States having wide open the doors, the National Origins Act of 1921 was passed. The National Origins Act had limited all of the immigration taking place in the United States any year to three percent of the number of foreign-born members. These foreign members were part of a nationality group as shown in the 1910 census. A part of the 1910 census is in the upper left hand corner.
The 1929 act had led to many complaints. These complaints consisted that the act was letting in way to many immigrants of certain races. These races included the Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jew, and Greeks. Due to these complaints a new act was made. This act was called the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924. The point of this act was to reduce the number of immigrants let into the country. That's exactly what it did. Quotas were reduced to as low as two percent of the 1890 census. The reason the 1890 census was chosen was bcause it was a much smaller number.
(http://www.suite101.com/content/racism-in-the-1920s-a90186).
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