War, Fear and Movement
Speech restricted, radicalism feared
- Official restrictions on freedom of speech grew during World War I, as increased anxiety about radicalism led to a Red Scare and attacks on labour activism and immigrant culture.
- One anxiety, three targets: speech, labour activism, and immigrant culture.
- So wartime security policy and domestic social conflict are described as the same phenomenon.
Select all three targets of wartime anxiety about radicalism.
One anxiety, three targets.
Immigration peaked, then quotas
- Immigration from Europe reached its peak in the years before World War I. During World War I, nativist campaigns against some ethnic groups led to the passage of quotas that restricted immigration, particularly from southern and eastern Europe, and increased barriers to Asian immigration.
- Quotas are a new instrument: not persuasion or hostility but a number written into law.
- 6.9's assimilation debate ends here, in restriction — which 5.5's nativism had already been arguing for.
Quotas are a new instrument because they are...
6.9's assimilation debate ends here, in restriction.
War work pulled people to cities
- The increased demand for war production and labour during World War I led many Americans to migrate to urban centres in search of economic opportunities.
- So the war is a migration cause, and restricting immigration while demanding labour created a pull for internal migrants.
- That mechanism is what makes the next bullet follow from this one.
Wartime restriction, immigration policy, or internal movement?
Sort each element of wartime population change.
Select all three push factors of the Great Migration.
6.4's Jim Crow and 5.11's stripped rights are the conditions escaped.
Restricting immigration while demanding war labour created the pull for internal migrants. Quotas cut one supply of workers just as increased demand for war production and labour raised the need — and the Great Migration moved into exactly that gap.
The CED says migrants found new opportunities but still encountered discrimination.
A two-sided outcome, in one clause.
The Great Migration
- In the Great Migration during and after World War I, African Americans escaping segregation, racial violence, and limited economic opportunity in the South moved to the North and West, where they found new opportunities but still encountered discrimination.
- Three push factors, two destinations, and a two-sided outcome: new opportunities but still... discrimination.
- 6.4's Jim Crow and 5.11's stripped rights are the conditions being escaped, so this is a movement with a named cause.
Quotas cut one labour supply while war demand raised the need, and the Great Migration moved into that ____.
The policy did not intend the movement it produced.
International and internal together
- The objective is the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time, and both words are graded.
- International: a peak, then quotas restricting southern and eastern Europe and raising barriers to Asia.
- Internal: war-industry pull to cities, and the Great Migration out of the South.
Close one door to the labour market and open another, and people will find the second one. The policy did not intend the movement it produced, and the movement changed the country more than the policy did.
Official restrictions on freedom of speech grew during World War I, as increased anxiety about radicalism led to a Red Scare and attacks on labour activism and immigrant culture. Immigration from Europe reached its peak in the years before World War I, and nativist campaigns led to the passage of quotas... particularly from southern and eastern Europe, and increased barriers to Asian immigration. Increased demand for war production and labour pulled Americans to cities, and in the Great Migration... African Americans escaping segregation, racial violence, and limited economic opportunity in the South moved to the North and West, where they found new opportunities but still encountered discrimination.