Writing Assignment

Anti-immigration was an important social issues of the three sources. The Ku Klux Klan mentioned in HA was a group that was revived from anti-immigration feelings and became a strong and effective group. Zinn agrees with HA according to the quote, “The Ku Klux Klan was revived in the 1920s, and it spread into the North.” “Confederate flag-wavers, white-robed Ku Klux Klansmen (whose organization had plummeted in membership since the 1920s), and potbellied southern sheriffs still stood out as not-so-comical symbols of white racism,” is a quote that was told by Schweikart. He agrees with HA that the KKK was active but thinks that it wasn’t really effective or powerful.

Liberal organizations were also another important social issue of the three sources. In HA, the American Civil Liberties Union was a liberal organization that helped protect immigrants and freedom of speech. In the passage, “The NAACP seemed helpless in the face of mob violence and race hatred everywhere,” Zinn mentions another liberal group but says that they are not effective. In Schweikart’s passage, he says that there are liberals but those people are also racists themselves.

The government’s ideas are also an important social issue of the three sources. According to HA, the government follows the ideas of the Nativists. “Congress, in the twenties, put an end to the dangerous, turbulent flood of immigrants (14 million between 1900 and 1920) by passing laws setting immigration quotas: the quotas favored Anglo-Saxons, kept out black and yellow people, limited severely the coming Latins, Slavs, Jews,” was written by Zinn that shows he fully agrees with HA. In Schweikart’s passage, he doesn’t mention what side the government follows.