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What happened to Americans attitudes towards immigrants after WW1? Why?

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Many White Americans feared that as immigration increased, jobs and housing would become harder to obtain. This heated up after the stock market crash of October 1929. The Great Depression swept across the nation and many blamed immigrants were the cause.

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