Objectives
Students will
• investigate the Essential Question: What effects did postwar tensions have on
America’s founding ideals?
• analyze the economic, political, social, and racial tensions of the postwar period.
• synthesize key content to assess the effects of postwar tensions on America’s
founding ideals.
• learn and use the Key Content Terms for this lesson
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1.Introduce the Essential Question. Ask students to turn to the lesson and
consider possible answers to the
Essential Question: What effects did postwar tensions have on America’s
founding ideals?
2. ASK STUDENTS ESSENTIAL QUESTION. LET THEM DISCUSS IN GROUPS THE
HAVE THEM SHARE ANSWERS
3. STUDENTS READ CHAP 26 SEC 4+5 AND ANSWER QUESTIONS IN NOTEBOOK
+GO OVER
4. CLASS NOTES
5. Listen to “Harding, You’re the Man for Us,” Warren G. Harding’s campaign song
for the 1920 presidential election.
A. Write three adjectives that describe the song’s mood.
B. Based on the song, what do you think Harding’s top priority as president
will be?
C.Would this song make you want to vote for Harding? Why?
6. STUDENTS READ CHAP 27 SEC 1+ 2 AND 3 AND ANSWER QUESTIONS IN
NOTEBOOK AND GO OVER
7. CLASS NOTES
8. ANSWER SUMMARY QUESTIONS
9. CLASS DISCUSSION
Debrief the activity. Briefly discuss the Essential Question. Ask,
What effects did postwar tensions have on America’s
founding ideals?
10. REVIEW
11. CHAP26 +27 TEST
CHAPTER 26 SECTION 4
GROWING POLITICAL TENSIONS
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
WHAT EFFECTS DID POSTWAR TENSIONS HAVE ON AMERICA’S FOUNDING
IDEALS?
HS.AH.12.1. Describe how racial intolerance, anti-immigrant attitudes and the
Red Scare contributed to social unrest after World War I.
HS.AH.7.1. Analyze and evaluate how immigration, internal migration and
urbanization transformed American life.
BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
-1917 RUSSIA WAS DESPERATE FOR CHANGE
A.) LOSS OF LIFE IN WAR
B.) SHORTAGE OF FOOD
SO
- CZAR NICHOLAS II- LEADER OF RUSSIA- PEOPLE WANTED CHANGE SO A
REVOLUTION BEGINS
- LED BY VLADIMIR LENIN
A.) REMOVED NICHOLAS II FROM POWER AND BROUGHT
COMMUNISM TO THE SOVIET UNION
1.) GOVERNMENT OWNS EVERYTHING
2.) PUSHED FOR A WORLDWIDE REVOLT AGAINST CAPITALISM
A.) CAPITALISM- PEOPLE OWN EVERYTHING
RED SCARE- THE FEAR THAT COMMUNISM WAS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE U.S.
- AFTER REVOLUTION BY LENIN 70,000 AMERICANS JOINED THE
COMMUNIST PARTY IN THE U.S.
- OVER 35 BOMBS HAD BEEN SENT TO PEOPLE LIKE ROCKEFELLER AND
NUMEROUS SENATORS, PEOPLE BELIEVED COMMUNIST WERE INVOLVED
GOVT RESPONSE TO RED SCARE
- 1919 GOVT FORMED THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OR FBI
A.) LED BY J. EDGAR HOOVER
B.) FBI WAS CREATED TO FIGHT AND STOP COMMUNISM
- PALMER RAIDS (NAMED AFTER MITCHEL PALMER THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
A.) THEY WERE TO HUNT DOWN SUSPECTED COMMUNIST
B.) VIOLATED CIVIL LIBERTIES- BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS GUARANTEED
BY LAW
C.) NO SEARCH WARRANTS, UNNECCESSARY VIOLENCE, JAILED
SUSPECTS FOR WEEKS W/O LAWYER AND ARRESTED ANYONE
VISITING THEM, DEPORTED SUSPECTED IMMIGRANTS
SUSPICIOUS OF IMMIGRANTS
SO
- WITH THE FEAR PEOPLE WANTED TO REDUCE IMMIGRANT NUMBERS
FROM COMING INTO THE U.S.
A.) PASSED QUOTA SYSTEM- ONLY A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
IMMIGRANTS COULD ENTER U.S. DROM EACH COUNTRY
THEN
ANTI-IMMIGRANT FEELINGS WOULD LED TO THE RISE UP AGAIN OF THE
KKK OR KU KLUX KLAN
A.) SAW THEMSELVES AS THE DEFENDER OF AMERICAN VALUES
B.) TO BE MEMBER YOU MUST HAVE BEEN BORN IN U.S., WHITE AND
PROTESTENT
C.) KKK AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS, IMMIGRANTS, CATHOLICS AND
JEWS
D.)BY EARLY 1920’S THERE WAS OVER 4 MILLION MEMBERS OF THE KKK
CHAPTER 27
THE POLITICS OF NORMALCY
- HARDING WINS ELECTION OF 1920 OVER JAMES COX *(GOVERNOR OF
OHIO) AND EUGENE DEBS (IN JAIL FOR BREAKING ESPIONAGE AND
SEDITION ACT)
- VICE PRESIDENT- CALVIN COOLIDGE
- ELECTION OF 1920 WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WOMEN
COULD VOTE IN
A.) 19TH AMENDMENT- WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
HARDING’S CAMPAIGN WAS CALLED THE FRONT PORCH CAMPAIGN
A.) HE NEVER LEFT MARION DURING HIS CAMPAIGN
B.) HE WOULD WIN USING HIS SLOGAN A RETURN TO NORMALCY
WANTED TO BRING U.S. BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE THE
WAR, THE EASY LIFE
1.) HE LOOKED LIKE A PRESIDENT
2.) GAVE GREAT SPEECHES
3.) OWNED MARION STAR
ONCE IN OFFICE
1. STRENGHTEN THE ISOLATION POLICY BY REDUCING IMMIGRANTS
HOWEVER
HARDING’S BIGGEST WEAKNESS WAS HIS FRIENDS
OHIO GANG- HARDING’S ROWDY POKER PLAYING FRIENDS FROM BACK HOME
1.) DIDN’T KNOW MUCH POLITICS BUT HARDING’S LOYALTY PLACED THEM
IN GOVT POSITIONS ONCE ELECTED
2.) HIS FRIENDS WERE CORRUPTED AND USED POSITIONS TO MAKE MONEY
THRU BRIBES
3.) HARDING DIDN’T KEEP AN EYE ON HIS PEOPLE TRUSTED THEY WOULD
DO THEIR JOBS
SCANDALS
1.) FOR BRIBES HARDING’S FRIENDS LET VET HOSIPITALS OVER CHARGE GOVT
2.) SOLD GERMAN PATENTS THAT WAS SEIZED DURING WWI
3.) TEA POT DOME SCANDAL
A.) UNDER ROOSEVELT LAND WAS SET ASIDE FOR CONSERVATION IN
TEAPOT DOME WYOMING
B.) ONE OF HARDING’S FRIENDS (ALBERT FALL) SECRETLY LEASED
THIS LAND TO OIL COMPANIES FOR MONEY
- HARDING WOULD GO ON A GOODWILL TOUR TO ALSASKA AND WEST
COAST TO GET AWAY OF THE STRESS OF THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
A.) HARDING WOULD GET SICK IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WOULD DIE
ON AUG 2, 1923
- CALVIN COOLIDGE WOULD BECOME THE NEXT PRESIDENT