Obj (1.1a, 1.

2h) SW
examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

Title: 1920s Reaction to Immigration / Red Scare

Date: October 11, 2016

Write down the

Essential Question.

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

Development of the
Red Scare

Bolshevik Revolution

Impact of Red Scare

on Labor Unions

Restrictions on
Immigration

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

World War I left much of

the American public
exhausted.

Many Americans
responded by becoming
fearful of outsiders.
Nativism sentiments swelled
Nativism policy / sentiments of
protecting the interests of
native-born

Fear of Communism and the

Bolshevik Revolution

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?

Russia, February 1917:

Hundreds of thousands of workers

went on strike and protested in streets

The Czar (Russian Monarch)

ended up abdicating (leaving his throne)

Czar and his family were executed

Temporary government runs country.
Russia continues to fight in WWI with Allied forces

TWS - Make a Prediction:

1. What impact do you think these executions had on Russia? Justify.
2. How do you think an event such as the Bolshevik Revolution could
impact American society? Explain!
O-EQ: How did society,
CHALLENGE! Communism would become the dominant
politics, and the
economy change in the government/economic system in Russia. How do you think this would
U.S. after WWI?
impact the U.S.?

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

In November 1917, a
communist group called the
Bolsheviks took over Russia.

They were anti-capitalism (big

business)
Advocated for the rights of
Workers

0-5: Communism?
A political and economic system where the
government, typically a dictatorship, controls all
means of production
All land and wealth was distributed to peasants equally
Elimination of classes

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

Develop a logical argument in support of/or against

Communism:
What are 2 positive characteristics / 2 negative
characteristics of a communist system? Justify.
3-4 sentences
Trade and rate
5 total points - 2pts for evidence (characteristics);
2pts for justification; 1 point for completion (3-4
sentences)

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

Some Americans associated

labor unions with communist
radicals who threatened
American capitalism.
Communists were anti-capitalist
Unions that struck (went on strike) were seen as anti-capitalist
Thus many thought Communists = Unionism

Enter the Red Scare

Period of time when many Americans feared that

communists were attempting to overthrow the U.S.

government
Largely stemmed from paranoia after the Bolshevik.

Revolution

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration. The blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American

institution of law and ordereating its way into the homes of the
DOL: Given an exit
American workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heatlicking
card (100% acc) SW
the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell,
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a crawling into the sacred corners of American homes,burning up
SEEC paragraph that the foundations of society. M. Palmer
analyzes: U.S.
Analyze the primary source excerpt above.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

What does this excerpt tell you about the nation in the
1920s?
What is the general tone of this excerpt and how do you
think it impacted people in the 1920s?

1.
2.

Explain and justify your response with evidence.

CHALLENGE! Palmer (the author) mentions the blaze of

revolution was licking the alters of the churches, leaping into
the belfry of the school bell. What is he trying to achieve with
this colorful language?

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

Write an inference
statement
regarding the
artists perspective
on labor unions.

Based upon
_________, I can
infer that the artist
supported/opposed
labor unions
because _________.

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

The Red Scare of the

1920s (there will be
one in the 1950s as
well) had the
following effects.
The Emergency Quota

Act
Anger towards three

groups:
Labor Unions
Immigrants
Anarchists

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

0-5: Emergency Quota Act

Allowed only a certain

number of people from
each country into the U.S.
(percentage from 1910
census)
Relevance to today: The

U.S. is currently seeing a

rapidly increasing
immigrant population

TWS: Should the

government restrict
immigration more when
the economy is suffering?
Why or why not?

Immigration Quotas, 19251927

NW Europe and Scandinavia
Country

Quota

Eastern and Southern

Europe

Country

Quota

Other Countries
Country

Quota

Germany

51,227

Poland

5,982

Africa (other
than Egypt)

Great Britain

34,007

Italy

3,845

Armenia

124

Ireland

28,567

Czech.

3,073

Australia

121

Sweden

9,561

Russia

2,248

Palestine

100

Norway

6,453

Yug.

Syria

100

Total #

142,483

Total (%)

86.5

Total #

671

18,439

Total %

1 min: Discuss with your partner

-What groups of people seemed to be limited more?
-What groups of people seemed to be limited less?
-Why do you think this is?

11.2

Total #
Total (%)

1,100

3,745
2.3

Obj (1.1a, 1.2h) SW

examine issues of
unity in 1920s U.S.
and analyze
how/why the
country restricted
foreign immigration.
DOL: Given an exit
card (100% acc) SW
1. Answer 3 MC
questions. 2. Write a
SEEC paragraph that
analyzes: U.S.
Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)
T-EQ: How & why did
the U.S. restrict
immigration into the
U.S. during the decade
of the 1920s?
O-EQ: How did society,
politics, and the
economy change in the
U.S. after WWI?

You will now walk around the room and view a

number of political cartoons:
Analyze each for: Subject, Purpose, and Tone

4 min. each

In addition, answer the following questions for each

cartoon:

1.

What references are made to labor, unions or

communism?
What is the meaning of the cartoon? Justify your
response with 2 reasons.

2.

1. The Industrial Revolution led to the

Bolshevik revolution because:
a. industrialists promoted communism
b. difficult working and living conditions
led people to reject economic inequality
c. the espionage and sedition act alienated
people
d. None of the above.

3. All of the following groups were

associated with communism EXCEPT
a. the Bolsheviks
b. American labor unions
c. American industrialists
d. European immigrants to America

2. The Red Scare was:

a. a time when Americans feared the
dangerous working conditions that
resulted from industrialization
b. a communist revolution in Russia
c. a time when Americans feared
communists overthrowing the government
d. unsafe working conditions led to many
suicides

Write a SEEC paragraph for

the following prompt:
U.S. Restriction on
Immigration (1920s)