Monday, January 10, 2011
Graham
The Red Scare is related to our play because the immigrants fromm Italy in 1918-1919 were considered "Reds", or rebels. This fits into our play becaus many of the characters are imigrants from Italy. Many of these rebellious Italians were not proven to be actual "Reds" but their disobediance of the law,(bootlegging, crime sprees, protecton wages, etc.) engineered their aressts and designated them as "Reds".
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the johnson act of 1924 was an immigration act limiting the number of immigrants who could be admited into the untied states to 2% of the number of people orrigonally from that country who were already living in the united states.In the 10 years following 1900, about 200,000 italians immigrated annually. this new act cut that number down to 4,000 immigrants per year. this is important to the play because the characters of the play are the exact people targeted by this act
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