Bell Ringer

• Why did so many strikes take place directly after World War I ended?

America’s Postwar Issue’s

Ch. 20 Sec. 1 Notes

Postwar Conditions

• Socially: Progressive changes still new• Economic: loss of orders, loss of jobs, cost

of living doubled• Nativism: Prejudice of outsiders• Isolationism: Staying out of world events

Red Scare

• Communism: 1 party rule by a dictator

• Bolshevik revolution• 70,000 in U.S. party• Fear of revolution in

the U.S.

Palmer Raids

• U.S. Attorney, A. Palmer• Went after all types of

people• Abused power• Failed to find anything,

public turned against them

Vocab

• Anarchists: People against government• Communists: People who supported a

dictator and no private property • Socialists: People against capitalism

Sacco and Vanzetti

• Italian Immigrants• Arrested/Convicted/

Killed in connection with a murder

• Little evidence, had alibis, judge thought innocent

• Shows impact of Red Scare

Keep America for Americans

• Why did we not like Immigrants?• Where did they mostly come from?• Who were they?

Ku Klux Klan

• 100% Americanism• Only white males,

born in USA• Against: Blacks,

Catholics, Jews• Criminal activity

brought them down

Quota Act of 1921

• Quota System: Limited number of people into the U.S.

• Japanese were not allowed in at all

Labor Unrest

• Boston Police Strike– No raise in years– Could not be in a union

• Calvin Coolidge– Called out N.G.– New Policemen hired

• Steel Mill Strike– Shorter working day,

and living wage– Union Recognition– Were beaten, called

communists– 3 years later, workers

get what they want

John L. Lewis

• U.M.W leader• Won

– 27% wage increase– Lewis: National Hero