New Attacks on Civil Liberties in the 1920s
Civil Liberties­ The rights of an individual.
Nativism­ prejudice against the foreign born. Immigrants & racial minorities became targets of hostility. Quotas­ Limits on immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia.
Sacco and Vanzetti­ two Italian immigrants were convicted of murder and executed. Many believed they received an unfair trial because the were anarchists. Anarchy­ the belief that government should be abolished. Red Scare­ a fear that Communism (which took over Russia in 1917) would take over the United States.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led the Palmer Raids­ The 1919­1920 arrest and deportation of political radicals and anarchists, where more than 500 foreign citizens were deported.
Labor Unions­ membership declined. Many felt that labor unions = communism. Ku Klux Klan­ violently targeted African Americans, as well as Catholics, Jews and immigrants. Used to indicated the shift of KKK activity and membership from the south to the north during the KKK's second uprising Source: Gilder Lehrman
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