Americans Struggle with
Postwar Issues
Objective…
Summarize the reaction in
the U.S. to the perceived
threat of communism
Post WW I
American Fears…
• Nativism…
• Isolationism…
• Communism…
• Anarchists… Radicals
The Russian Revolution
Why do the Russian people revolt?...
• Peace
• Land
• Bread
The Russian Revolution
• Why are
Americans
threatened
by the
Russian
Revolution?
Leader of the Russian
Revolution Vladimir Lenin…
In 1919
Lenin calls
for a world
revolution.
Article Review…
The Palmer Raids Target
Immigrants, 1919-1920
BEFORE READING
Identify several elements
within American society that
threaten the American way of
life and American
democracy?
The article thesis…
The Palmer raids, fueled by
antiradical and anti-immigrant
sentiments, were the most
spectacular anti-civil rights
excesses of the Red Scare of
1919–1920.
A)- Why did America
develop a fear of
foreigners and foreign
influence?
"It was an era of lawless and disorderly defense of
law and order, of unconstitutional defense of the
Constitution, of suspicion and civil conflict--in
avery literal sense, a reign of terror,"
…according to historian Frederick Allen
B), C)- What actions taken
during this time period
support the above statement?
D), E), F)- What was the
source of conflict between
northern whites and
African Americans
emigrating from the south?
G)- According to the Ku Klux
Klan, what behaviors
compromised the goal
“100% Americanism”?
H)- Why was trade
unionism considered
un-American?
I)-M)- Identify & explain
several of the long term
trends (social, political or
other) set in motion by the
period of time known as
the Red Scare.
AFTER READING
The Red Scare and the subsequent Palmer
Raids were justified as an attempt to rid
American society of political forces
threatening American democracy and the
American way of life. Upon closer
examination the Red Scare and the Palmer
Raids reveal deeper issues and hidden
motives related to the actions taken during
this time period. What are the deeper issues
and hidden motives related to the actions
taken during this time period?
1919: The Red Scare
•Communists take over in
Russia & threaten world
revolution…
•Communist Party forms in U.S.
•Government & business
leaders bombed.
•Americans panic
Attorney General Palmer’s home in
Washington D.C. was bombed…
The Wall
Street
Bombing
of 1920
Attorney General Palmer’s home in
Washington D.C. was bombed…
“…one in a series of coordinated attacks that day on judges,
politicians, law enforcement officials, and others in eight
cities nationwide. About a month earlier, radicals had also
mailed bombs to the mayor of Seattle and a U.S. Senator,
blowing the hands off the senator’s domestic worker. The
next day, a postal worker in New York City intercepted 16
more packages addressed to political and business leaders,
including John D. Rockefeller.”
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer…
“…revolution was sweeping over
every American institution of law
and order…eating its way into
the homes of the American
workman, its sharp tongues of
revolutionary heat…licking the
altars of the churches leaping
into the belfry of the schools
bell, crawling into the sacred
corners of American homes…
burning up the foundations of
society.”
1919: The Red Scare
The Palmer Raids or Red Raids
Goal: Hunt down suspected
Communists, socialists &
anarchists
- 6,300 arrested
- 850 deported …U.S.S. Buford
USS Buford - “The Soviet Ark”
The results of raid…
What violations of civil
liberties are associated
with the Palmer Raids?
Legacy of the Red Scare
• Constitutional rights violated
• Innocent people deported
• Fuels nativism & intolerance
• Fuels anti-unionism
• The abuse of government
power
• Identify…
- The symbolism being used…
- The meaning being conveyed…
- The relationship to the Red Scare…
History is a story and your group is going to tell a
factually based story about a fearful time in America.
Step 1: 3 Groups of 9… Count off by 3
Step 2: Use the terms below to create a factual summary. Ideally the
summary should demonstrate an interconnecting relationship of the
terms. Determine the best order of the terms to tell the story..
Step 3: Each person is responsible for explaining one term and
relating the term to the story.
The Red Scare
Immigrants
100% Americanism
African Americans
Radicals/ Communists
Trade Unionism
Palmer Raids
Mitchell Palmer
Ku Klux Klan
The Twenties
1920 - 1929
The Jazz Age
The Roaring Twenties
Postwar Prosperity
and Its Price
Objective…
Describe how the U.S. economy
changed in the 1920s and the
effects these changes had on
American life.
Cause and Effect…
• A cause is something that makes something
else happen. Out of two events, it is the event
that happens first. To determine the cause, ask
the question "Why did it happen?"
An effect is what happens as a result of the
cause. Of two related events, it’s the one that
happens second or last. To determine the
effect, ask the question "What happened?"
1) The Second Industrial
Revolution
Observation:
A Second Industrial Revolution
transforms the American economy.
• The cause?
• The effect?
What are the new consumer
products of the 1920s?
Key Industries 1900 - 2000
2) The Modern Corporation
Observation:
The organization of American industry
changes.
• The cause?
• The effect?
3) Welfare Capitalism
Observation:
Organized labor declines in power.
• The cause?
• The effect?
4) The Auto Age
Observation:
The automobile becomes affordable
for all Americans.
• The cause?
• The effect?
The Auto Age
The effects on American life…
• 1913: 1.2 M…1929: 26.5 M
• 1929: 4.8 M new cars
• 1 in 5 Americans on the road
The Auto Age:
Henry Ford
The
Ford Assembly
Line
1925 Ford Model T
The Auto Age
The ripple effect of the auto industry on other
industries & on the economy?...
Early gas stations…
The Auto
Age
Summarize the
effects of the
auto age had
on American
culture.
5) Cities & suburbs
Observation:
The American city experienced both
vertical and horizontal growth.
• The cause?
• The effect?
6) Exceptions: Agriculture,
Ailing Industries
Observation:
The agricultural community did not
share in the overall prosperity of the
1920s.
• The cause?
• The effect?
Immigration Act of
1921: established a three-percent quota system based on the number of foreign-born persons
per nationality already living in America at the time of the 1910 census.
In 1924, Congress further restricted immigration with passage of the Johnson-Reed Act, also
known as the
Immigration Act of 1924: This act established the 1890 census as the new quota baseline.
• PA Poem (American Protective Association)
Come ye sons of Uncle Sam,A.
Come join the gallant band,
Come unite with us to fight our country's foe.
For our God is with the right,
We will conquer by His might,
And the slick and wily Jesuit must go.
Noble men are in our ranks -We are not a band of cranks -We are not a lot of bigots or of fools.
But, ye Roman Catholic hordes,
We will buckle on our swords,
If you dare to meddle with our public schools