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80 percent NYC NATIVES American people isolationist 1917 Russian revolution communism/anarchism Vladimir Lenin great fear of socialism

Espionage and sedition acts Socialist Eugene debs sentenced to ten years for giving a speech socialism is the answer Presidents harding and collidge over patriotic Business interest , fear of foreigners America must be kept American

Most notorious Italian immigrant Al capone Prohibition in 1919 leads to the beginning of organized crim Violence in society connected to immigrants

Union difficulties socialists Steel strike pittspurg

Attorney general A mitchel palmer Red raids

Counter subversion unit in the justice department J.Edgar Hoover

1924 Immigration Restriction Act Immigration quota act

Sacci abd vabzettu execyted 1927

Great concern over immigrants

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