WORLD WAR 1

FEARED FOREIGNERS

• Spying (most people from Wisconsin from Germany *newly immigrants*)
• Started restrictions on immigration
• Made literacy test so the immigrants had to know how to read english

"HATE THE HUNS"

• Called Germans Huns referring to the people who had brutally attacked Europe in the fifth and forth centuries
• A lot of things turned anti German
• Stopped teaching German in schools, books by German authors were taken off library shelves, ect.
• Mob lynched a German born citizen who had also tried to enlist in the navy
• This lynching was one of many wartime attacks on germans

CRISIS

• Espionage act- making it illegal to interfere with the war draft
• Sedition Act- any speech or action that encourages rebellion (took away first amendment)
• 1,500 prosecutions
• Won more than 1,000 convictions

THESIS

• This is the most important crisis because it took away our freedom of speech

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