The emergence of the suburbs caused both cultural and political changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The suburbs represented prosperity, affluence, and security, while also creating a more society with more homogeneity. The development of interstate highways in the 1950s made suburbanization easier because it gave citizens the ability to commute to work from the suburbs (Suri, Lecture 20). The suburbs divided communities and separated individuals from the cities, creating a form of self-segregation, which made social reform difficult (Perlstein). For social reform to prosper, individuals need to be united and working together towards a common goal, which was hindered by suburbanization. In Perlstein’s book, he mentions how the suburbs changed American
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The emergence of McCarthyism resulted in a national witch hunt and the formation of the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The hysteria that resulted from McCarthy 's claims caused many innocent individuals, particularly elites, educated individuals, travelers, writers, and actors, to be persecuted and lose their jobs (Suri, Lecture 16). These persecutions were based on the words of other individuals and did not expose all the communists that were hiding in the American political system. McCarthyism grew rapidly due to the fear of communism which was also one of the causes of the Cold War. The ease of people to claim someone else was a suspected communist allowed for actually communists to hide within …show more content…
Drumright and other individuals were able to use the scare of communism to influence immigration policies (Ngai 209). Drumright claimed that the Chinese were sneaking communists into American as immigrants with false documentation. The fear of communism gave Drumright the power he needed to deny passports and visas to immigrants, even though his accusations were based on suspicion. This is one of the ways the United States provided a reason to keep immigrants, especially of Chinese descent, out of America. This is one of the violations of equality faced by individuals during the Cold War. The Cold War and the fear of the spread of communism that furthered its effects on society resulted in the support for policies to keep immigrants, particularly those who may be communist, out of the United States. If there was an influx of communist immigrants in America, they could cause severe damage to the ideas of democracy and capitalism that America believed in. Communism was a direct threat to American democracy, and the Cold War allowed America to fight communism indirectly, while discriminating against individuals from certain backgrounds resulting in inequality and the inability for social reform. The immigrants had very view supporters within the United States, which made it harder for them to achieve a successful social reform movement that would get them the American citizenship they were seeking. (IMMIGRATION ACT
The emergence of McCarthyism resulted in a national witch hunt and the formation of the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The hysteria that resulted from McCarthy 's claims caused many innocent individuals, particularly elites, educated individuals, travelers, writers, and actors, to be persecuted and lose their jobs (Suri, Lecture 16). These persecutions were based on the words of other individuals and did not expose all the communists that were hiding in the American political system. McCarthyism grew rapidly due to the fear of communism which was also one of the causes of the Cold War. The ease of people to claim someone else was a suspected communist allowed for actually communists to hide within …show more content…
Drumright and other individuals were able to use the scare of communism to influence immigration policies (Ngai 209). Drumright claimed that the Chinese were sneaking communists into American as immigrants with false documentation. The fear of communism gave Drumright the power he needed to deny passports and visas to immigrants, even though his accusations were based on suspicion. This is one of the ways the United States provided a reason to keep immigrants, especially of Chinese descent, out of America. This is one of the violations of equality faced by individuals during the Cold War. The Cold War and the fear of the spread of communism that furthered its effects on society resulted in the support for policies to keep immigrants, particularly those who may be communist, out of the United States. If there was an influx of communist immigrants in America, they could cause severe damage to the ideas of democracy and capitalism that America believed in. Communism was a direct threat to American democracy, and the Cold War allowed America to fight communism indirectly, while discriminating against individuals from certain backgrounds resulting in inequality and the inability for social reform. The immigrants had very view supporters within the United States, which made it harder for them to achieve a successful social reform movement that would get them the American citizenship they were seeking. (IMMIGRATION ACT