Answer and Explanation
Edward Moran's "The Statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World," 1886
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Question 1109:
Which of the following was not an example of American anti-immigrant feelings?
(A) the rise of the American Party in the 1850s
(B) the Chinese Exclusion Act
(C) the National Origins Act
(D) the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till
(E) the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Which of the following was not an example of American anti-immigrant feelings?
(A) the rise of the American Party in the 1850s
(B) the Chinese Exclusion Act
(C) the National Origins Act
(D) the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till
(E) the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s
Answer:
(D) the 1955 murder of Emmitt Till
Explanation:
The American Party criticized immigrants, particularly those of Irish descent. The Chinese Exclusion Act sought to limit the number of Chinese immigrants. In the 1920s, both the National Origins Act which set quotas for immigrants and the new KKK, which targeted immigrants, along with Catholics, Jews, and blacks, for its hate and intimidation campaigns. Till was a 13-year-old boy who was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi after he allegedly spoke in a familiar manner with a white woman in a store. His brutal murder served as a grim reminder of the prevalent racism of the South in the 1950s and is viewed as one of the motivating events of the developing Civil Rights movement.
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