US History
Social Studies
Unit: 03 Lesson: 03
Issues of the 1920s - Cause-Effect Chart KEY
IMMIGRATION
CAUSE: immigrants
sought a better life in the
U.S., escape poverty,
religious discrimination,
etc.
EFFECT: increased
population, overcrowded
cities, labor force for
factories, etc.
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SOCIAL
DARWINISM
EUGENICS
belief that all personal
and social problems are
inherited/genetic
studyof human
improvementby genetic
means
CAUSE: a desire to
maintain the economic
and social divisions in
society (wealthy believed
that the "rich get richer")
CAUSE: an attempt to
better society and the
human race
EFFECT: increased the
popularity of the eugenics
movement
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RACE
RELATIONS
CAUSE: increase of
immigration (particularly
from Asia)
EFFECT: discrimination
towards those who did
nto fit the "perfect"
human mold (extreme
example is Hitler's actions
during the Holocaust)
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EFFECT: discrimination,
Ku Klux Klan flourished
US History
Social Studies
Unit: 03 Lesson: 03
Issues of the 1920s - Cause-Effect Chart KEY
NATIVISM
RED SCARE
PROHIBITION
CHANGING
ROLE OF
WOMEN
CAUSE: with increased
immigration, native born
Americans worried that
immigrants would take
over jobs
CAUSE: The Red Scare
was a reaction not only to
the communist revolution
in Russia, but also to the
influx of immigrants to
the U.S. in the years
leading up to WWI
CAUSE: belief that
alcohol was leading to
the decline of society alcohol was blamed for
many of society's ills such
as sever health problems,
destitution and crime
CAUSE: due to
industrialization, many
women changed from
homebound producers to
wage-earning consumers,
women's suffrage
EFFECT: passage of the
18th Amendment
EFFECT: women became
social and even political
reformers, worked
outside of the home,
impacted the economy,
women had a voice in
politics
EFFECT: discrimination,
Ku Klux Klan flourished
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EFFECT: deportation of
many communists and
socialists
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