Post- World War I America
A Conflicted Time of Turbulence & Prosperity
The Great Migration
•Many African Americans were moving from
_____________________________
–Bowl weevil infestation, droughts, & floods ruined southern
cotton fields
–Also Escaping ____________________________
–Taking ________________________
•Filling in for WWI soldiers
Nativism Strikes Again!
•Post-war Slump
–Factories & Farmers suffered as wartime
______________________________
• Returning Soldiers faced unemployment or, they took
their old jobs back leaving the women and minorities, who
had filled in while they were gone, ___________
•These economic pressures led to increased
___________ & ________ of foreigners
–SO: _____________________ &
_______________________ were on the rise
•Isolationism is when people don’t want
to_______________with other countries
“We’ll deal with our problems, you deal with
yours”
•Protectionism is when a people start walling
themselves off & only looking out for
“number 1”
–Involves things like raising
t______________ &
_________________ Immigration
(both of which happened)
–“Keep America for Americans”
–Aided in the Return of the Ku Klux Klan
•The KKK was the epitome of _________________
& ________________ tendencies
• Equal Opportunity Bigots
•Anti-immigrant
•Anti-black
•Anti-Semitic (Jewish)
•Anti-Catholic
•Pro-American Born ____________
•The KKK was able to return because they
met the emotional needs of a
_________________ people
–People were afraid of __________________
•More & More people had been moving from
farms to __________ for the past 40 years
•Technology had boomed
•Remember The Vast Numbers of
_________________ coming from
S.E.E. (20 million from 1880-1920)
–The KKK represented what many
saw as “_____________ American
Values”
•There was also a fear of ___________
•Bolshevick Revolution in Russia (Communists)
•They were calling for a ____________
_______________________________
•They formed a party in the U.S.
• Thousands Joined
This (the Communist Revolution) led to The Red Scare
–__________________-U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
(Assisted by J. Edgar Hoover) conducted raids on suspected
________________________, socialists, & anarchists (people who
appose any form of government)
•However the Palmer’s Raids _______________to turn up any
revolutionary Conspiracy
Summing Up
•America had been going through serious growing pains
–Rapid Industrialization & Urbanization
–Immigration
–Spanish American War
–Progressivism
–World War 1—The last straw leading to protectionism
•Last Straw--People just wanted to focus on themselves
All leads to The Roaring 20s—a time of excess & indulgence