Were the choices, habits, and priorities of the 1920s a reaction to World War I, a reaction to Progressivism, a reaction to both, or a reaction to neither?
REMEMBER, YOU CAN ONLY USE EVIDENCE FROM THE DOCUMENTS LINKED ON THE CHAPTER MODULE HOMEPAGE WHEN RESPONDING TO THIS QUESTION. OUTSIDE INFORMATION, INCLUDING INFORMATION FROM THE AMERICAN YAWP, WILL RESULT IN A ZERO.
What you will be doing for the assignment grade: For your source analysis responses, write 200-250 words answering the question
See Section VII in Chapter 22 for more information on the immigration restriction legislation of the 1920s. The legislation described in this New York Times opinion piece is the Immigration Act of 1924, or the Johnson-Reed Act. The author of this 1924 opinion piece, Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, wrote the Johnson-Reed Act, which as the American Yawp notes “permanently established country-of-origin quotas.” In your source analysis response, you must cite evidence from all three documents: Reed’s opinion piece, Hiram Evans’s speech, and Warren Harding’s campaign speech.
Additional Sources:
Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926)
