adoption of a quota system to limit Immigration
Nativism and racism increased in the 1920s and led to changes in Immigration laws.
Nativism and the Red Scare played into Congressional limitations on immigration in the 1920s. This is because people feared that a Bolshevik revolution (which has just happened in Russia) would come to the United States.
NAtivism is the thought that America is best and it should stay the way it is. with this thought the quota system and other laws were made to lower the number of immagrants entering the U.S. at any given time.
Nativism is defined as being the favoring of indigenous inhabitants over immigrants. Nativism in the United States arouse due to the high levels of immigrants that were coming to the US in the 1920s.
Advertising in the 1920's showed an expression of what fun the 1920's were all about. They focused on optimism and the prosperity of the period.
During the 1920s
The growth of the nation's economy during the 1920s was called urbanization.
The growth of the nation's economy during the 1920s was called urbanization.
The rise of nativism in the 1920s was caused mainly by immigration. the massive influx of "new" immigrants scared most of the population. then after WWI Americans were even more afraid that immigrants from war torn Europe would leave to start new lives in America. they did not want the immigrants to take their jobs. but so many new jobs were being made available in this time period that it was innevitable.
immigration restriction
during the 1920s people bought on margin and factories boomed
Unions suffered a substantial decline in membership and influence during the 1920s.