Chapter 12 Section 4: Things to Know
• What group of people led to the labor strikes in 1919?
• What did the revolution in Russia lead to?
• What were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti known
for being?
• Who was an anarchist that was convicted of murder?
• Who was the Republican that won the Presidential election
of 1920?
• What did the President elected in 1920 promise to return
America back to?
• What was America the leader of after WWI?
• A country that owes less money than it is owed is called…?
Chapter 12:
World War I and
Beyond – 19141920
Section 4: Effects
of the War
Tulsa Race Riot
• In 1921, Tulsa encountered probably the worst
case of violence in its history.
– The Tulsa Race riot, also known as the 1921 race riot,
the Tulsa Race War, or the Greenwood riot, began on
May 31, 1921.
– It was a massacre during a large-scale civil disorder
confined mainly to the racially segregated Greenwood
neighborhood in north Tulsa.
– The riot, which lasted some 16 hours, reportedly killed
36 people, put another 800 in the hospital with
injuries, and left 10,000 people homeless.
Tulsa Race Riots
• Official reports said there were 16 killed, of which 10
were white, but many dispute this number.
– The Red Cross reported around 300 dead, making the Tulsa
race riot the worst in US history. Other reports estimate
some 3,000 were killed. By its end, nearly 35 city blocks
were burnt to the ground.
• The riot began after a report claiming that a black shoe
shiner had attacked a white girl in an elevator in
downtown Tulsa.
– The boy was found by the sheriff and taken to jail. A lynch
mob set out to find the boy and hang him for what he had
done. The riot had begun after the Tulsa County Sheriff
did not turn the boy over to the lynch mob.
Tulsa Race Riot
• Twenty five members of the black community of Greenwood
left for the courthouse yielding shotguns and rifles, to help the
sheriff. The sheriff turned them away and sent them back to
Greenwood.
– The white lynch mob didn’t like what the blacks had attempted to
do. Many went home to grab their own weapons. They went back
to the court house where the crowd grew to more than 2000
people.
– Tensions grew between the whites and blacks and a single gun shot
into the air triggered the riot. Both mobs traveled to the
Greenwood district where the deadly battle raged on.
– Fires were started and people were violently killed. The whites
attacked by land and by air. Six biplanes flew over the Greenwood
district dropping incendiary bombs over the district.
– Many people called this a ‘Negro Uprising’ when official reports
claim it was caused by the white mob that attempted to lynch the
young black boy.
Things to Know
• What group of people led to the labor strikes
in 1919?
• Women. They demanded rewards for their
wartime patriotism.
• What did the revolution in Russia lead to?
• The Red Scare, which is a wave of widespread fear
of suspected communists and radicals thought to
be plotting revolution within the United States.
Things to Know
• What were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti known for being?
– Anarchist. An anarchist is a person that tries to
use violence to overturn forms of government
and/or society with no purpose of establishing
another form to replace it.
• Who was an anarchist that was convicted of
murder?
– Nicola Sacco. He was assisted by Bartolomeo
Vanzetti.
Things to Know
• Who was the Republican that won the Presidential
election of 1920?
– Warren G. Harding of Ohio. Harding would be replaced
after his mysterious death in a San Francisco hotel in
August of 1923. It was considered mysterious because
none of his four doctors knew the cause of death. There
was no autopsy done because his wife would not permit it.
Within an hour of his death, she had him embalmed,
rouged, powdered, dressed, and in his casket. By morning,
he was on a train, headed back to Washington, D.C.
• What did the President elected in 1920 promise to
return America back to?
– A return to “normalcy” across the nation.
Things to Know
• What was America the leader of after WWI?
– It was the economic leader of the world. It was
the richest, most industrialized country in the
world.
• A country that owes less money than it is
owed is called a…?
– Creditor nation. Because of its industrial and
economic strength, the US had little debt and was
able to lend money to other nations.