The following page was pulled from Herbert B. Johnson's, Restriction of Japanese Immigration. In the document it states, "The Japanese will suffer long before they will do anything to break these pleasant relations, but the Japanese government will not be a party to any treaty that even implies a discrimination against her people. I am glad to believe that neither will President Roosevelt nor the Congress of the United States." Herbert B. Johnson spoke of the present time (1905) issues that were occurring with Japanese immigration. He recognized the reality of Japan's stance on a treaty that would discriminate fellow Japanese. Japan would not support something that could cause their people pain and suffering for many decades to come. However, Johnson was not ignorant to the large amount of people that saw immigration as a negative aspect towards American society. Even though he believed President Roosevelt and Congress would not attempt to place a treaty upon the Japanese, it was still a current issue that many faced in their daily lives. This book further exposed the weaknesses of the American government and the growing nationalism. By 1907, Japan would propose the Gentlemen's Agreement to end Japanese discrimination within the US.
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The Red Scare was a time filled with mass hysteria. A nation wide fear of communists, socialists, anarchists and other dissents spread in 1919 following a series of anarchist bombings. Innocent people were jailed for expressing their views and many civil liberties were ignored. The Boston Police Strike is shown on the left as hundreds of police officers flood the streets. There was little to no room on the roads for cars to pass by and it quickly caught the city's attention. A panic that "Reds" were behind the strike took over Boston despite the lack of any radicalism on the part of the striking police officers. This only made matters worse as people began to blame immigrants due to fear and lack of control over the mass hysteria.
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The image displayed on the left was taken at a Ku Klux Klan parade on August 8, 1925. There appears to be hundreds of K.K.K members dressed in full attire walking down public roads. An audience made up of young and old gather on the sides of the roads in order to catch a glimpse of the parade. Photographers are amongst the crowd as they attempt to snap pictures to forever remember this day. Many rallies, parades and marches were held throughout the nation as hostility grew towards the surge of immigration. The fear of a communist revolution akin to the Bolshevik triumph in Russia in 1917 only further fueled the K.K.K. Klan membership, at its peak in the 1920s, exceeded over four million people nation wide. Immigrants were left in a state of horror and the foreboding grew within them.
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