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"The Roaring Twenties"
"This time period is marked by optimism,celebration, experimentation and social change, but also fear of external influences and loss of 'American culture'." -
immigration emergency quota act
the act legislation restricted new immigration of 3% of the number of residents per year from their country of orgin all ready living in the united state . the act limit the immigration helped the economy out .another have for the emergency quota act is the emergency immigrant act -
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nation origns formula
this act caused immigration to drop by almost 500,000 people between 1920 and 1922 but professionals were not affected and they were all coming to the us looking for jobs and the cause of immigrants coming in from Europe after WW1 this modified the immigration time of this point -
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red scare
xenophobia fear of losing ones culture / wherence person obsessed with maintaining cultural superiority feels threatened when confronted with foreign people. federal raids occurred larger context of red scare cause fear/reaction to communist . general Palmer forecast massive radical on may day