Anti-immigration sentiment had reached one of its peaks immediately following the end of World War I. During the 1880s and 1890s, the nation faced a sharp economic recession with significant rates of unemployment. Many believed that immigrants flooding the labor market reduced job opportunities and wages for those born in the United States, and they viewed those from Eastern and Southern Europe as being racially inferior. It was feared that Southern Europeans brought to these shores political ideologies such as anarchism and communism.
Greenfield Gazette and Courier. “Tide of Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper.” April 17, 1920. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/l06-055/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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