HIST 264 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Immigration Act Of 1903, Immigration Restriction League, Palmer Raids
6 Jul 2017
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Legal changes, 1920"s: the anarchist exclusion act, 1903 (o cial name: the immigration act of 1903) Assassination of president mckinley, 1901 increase of radical phase sacco venzetti trials also tire immigrants into this as well as the assassin of president. Bans anarchists or anyone who would seek to overthrow the government by violent means if they found someone that wrote something anarchist-related an immigrant within the past decade listed in an anarchist organizations underground newspapers. People with epilepsy fear that it was mental no knowledge about this banned from immigration as well. Raided o ces of: labor unions socialist organizations communist organizations raiders: squads that were under attorney general palmer he was victim of a bombing by anarchists without warrant was not penalized. Anarchist bombs were going o all across the country terrorists fear of anarchists. International workers of the world (iww) labor union full of radicals targeted by the palmer raids many were deported.
