The Red Scare was a nationwide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists in 1919 because of a series of anarchist bombings. Innocent people were sent to jail for giving their views. Americans feared that a Bolshevik-style revolution was going to take place. The Red Scare ended i the 1920s. Anyone who wasn't patriotic like objectors, draft, dodgers, "slackers", German-Americans, immigrants, communists were suspects. In 1918 about nine million people worked in the war industries, and another four million were serving in the armed forces. When the war ended all of these people had no jobs.
There were two main Union/Socialist groups the International Workers of the World also know as the Wobbies and the Socialist party. Both groups were known for objecting to WW1 and that means they were unpatriotic. The first major strike after the war was the Seattle shipyard strike of 1919 it was attributed by the Wobblies. On January 21, 35,000 shipyard workers in Seattle struck. 60,00 workers in the Seattle area struck on February 6th. There was no violence at the strike but all of the striker were immediately labeled as Reds. Seattle's mayor Ole Hansen, hated the Wobbies and took the strike as a personal affront to him. He guaranteed the city's safety by announcing that 1500 of the city's policemen. Federal troops were at his disposal to break the strike.
The Immigration Act of 1924 or the Johnson-Reed Act, includes the National Origins Act and the Asian Exclusion Act. The acts limited the number of people who could admit to any country to 2%. Emergency Quota Act limited the Southern and eastern Europeans. Emergency Act was pointed to the Jews who had increased and migrated in large numbers into Poland and Russia.
If I lived in the twenties I think I would be a little worried about the Red Scare and a revolution happening in our country.
I think this picture is saying that they want Americans to be patriotic and respect the country but then a man is about to stab the country in the back.
This is a picture of the President sighing the Immigration Act of 1924.
law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/saccov/redscare.html
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Good job but needed three pictures for this blog.