Anti Communism Dbq

The United States is a democratic nation that allows its citizens to vote for their representative leaders. However, not every U.S. citizen has always been able to vote. For example, women and African-Americans had to work their way up to be able to vote through protests. Despite the United States being democratic, different beliefs of other forms of government have come along because of different practices throughout the world and immigrants. An example of this is communism, which is a practice that the U.S. does not want for its nation. The U.S. has experienced two periods in which it was highly afraid of communism rising in the U.S. The two periods were from 1917 to 1929 and 1939 to 1959 where the U.S. had anti-communist feelings. The reasons that led to anti-communism during these periods were significantly similar, but the impacts

The U.S. during this time period had a strong sense of nativism and did not like immigrants. Immigrants scared the American people because they brought new ideas and were seen as having different thoughts that were not “American”. This eventually led to an increase in the KKK membership because it promoted “100% Americanism.” Immigrants also had jobs that an unemployed American could have, causing more hatred towards immigrants. So immigrants could be limited the U.S. passed the National Origins Act of 1924, which only allowed a certain amount of immigrants to come into the U.S. Strikes were also another reason that led to anti-communist feelings because the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia showed that the people had the power to overthrow the government and lead to creation similar to the Soviet Union. Strikes were seen as a passageway to for revolutions occurring in the U.S. An example of a strike that affected the U.S. was the 1919 Seattle General Strike because it was a five day stoppage of work, which decreased