There are several root causes of the fear of immigrants in the 1920s, and there are several reasons of fear within the fear of immigrants in the 1920s. The Red Scare was a large cause in the fear of immigrants during the 1920s. The Red Scare caused a nationwide fear of radical leftism, communists, socialists, and anarchists after World War I ended and when the Bolshevik Revolution had occurred. People who expressed their views were put into prison and rightfully school people were frightened. The Red Scare caused xenophobia among the American people. In 1924, the National Origins Act was put into effect. In 1924 Congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration of Eastern and Southern Europeans and this excluded
