After World War ll , most people were suspected enemies, and most of them got held at Ellis Island.
Americans fearful of change
The southerners were afraid that once all of the slaves left to go north for better jobs/treatment, they would lose money because they'd actually have to pay someone to work. They were also afraid that they would get treated badly and get taxed, etc.,etc., for trying to break off from the Union and become their own confederation.
when the soviet union launched the first man-made satellite, sputnik, the us became fearful of the soviet's technological abilities so the us federal govt pumped a lot of money into science, math and gifted education programs. we responded with our own man-made satellite, thus starting the tit for tat race to space.
Mississippi's Black Codes are laws enacted by fearful white southerners after the emancipation due to the civil war. There are many of them, but basically they were designed to control 'black' labor, mobility and social status. So while according to the nation 'blacks' were free, these southern laws enabled farmers, and business owners to still control their former slaves. The codes themselves are easy to find if you simply bing or google your same question.
During the late 1940s and 1950s, America's attitude towards communism and communists was largely hostile and fearful due to the escalating Cold War tensions. The government implemented aggressive anti-communist measures, such as the Red Scare and McCarthyism, which led to extensive investigations and blacklisting of suspected communists. Many Americans regarded communism as a serious threat to American values, democracy, and national security.
(Fearful is "full of fear" - scared, afraid - but has acquired the meanings "causing fear" and also "dreadful." Note that because fear is an attributed emotion, saying "the monster was fearful" would be ambiguous - is the monster scared or is it instilling fear?)"In the aftermath of the cave-in, the trapped miners were fearful, anticipating that they might not be rescued.""There was a fearful crashing sound, and the roof suddenly collapsed.""After one more fearful glance over his shoulder, he jumped from the cliff into the ocean.""The homeless family was living in fearful poverty, in a makeshift shelter of corrugated metal."
more fearful, most fearful
Something you are afraid of makes you fearful.
i was fearful because of the scary movie
I was rather fearful about what I had done when the supervisor entered the room.
Fearful Owl was created in 1901.
Her Fearful Symmetry was created in 2009.
Fearful Pleasures was created in 1946.
they became fearful and ran away
I believe that all men are fearful of something.
Her Fearful Symmetry has 304 pages.
The ISBN of Her Fearful Symmetry is 978-0224085625.