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Understanding Postwar Tensions

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Understanding Postwar Tensions

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    1. Understanding Postwar Tensions

    2. Listen to the musical selection from the 1920’s and 30’s and record your impressions in your journal.

    3. In this chapter you will test the accuracy of these impressions and answer this question: To what extent were the 1920’s “roaring” and the 1930’s truly “depressing” ?

    4. The Postwar economic downturn Competition for jobs Class/Racial tension? intolerance (KKK) Strikes met w/ violence arrests anti-immig. Laws Women, Immigrants & African Americans Discrimination forced them into menial labor jobs “had but a few pegs to fall.”

    5. Pres. Harding & Political Scandals Contributed to economic/social strife Often rated as worst pres. Open-minded Cabinet Appointments-corrupt

    6. Labor Unrest Dissatisfaction Communist Party estab. 1919 Threat to corporations/Gov. Unions linked to communist fears Eastern European immig. Stereotyped Strikes crushed people afraid of Rev. Workers turn away from unions

    7. Radicals and Bombs Most peaceful & law-abiding Socialist, Anarchist, Pacifists Communist party split Communist Party - mass edu. and strikes Communist Labor Party - political action Left-wing radicals More prevalent American-born, upper-middle class intellectuals Embraced Russian Art/Literature Freedom of expression/Birth control Not into Rev.

    8. Small portion of radicals used bombings destroy political order 1919-1920 delivered bombs 33 killed and 200 injured on Wall St. Attorney Palmer house bombed Created Hysteria

    9. The Red Scare Gov. organized attacks Palmer Raids Arrested between 4,000-6,000 w/o formal charges RESULT: Communist went into hiding “social problems club” Convinced raids are solution Anti-Immigration Laws Johnson Act & National Origins Act Immigrant Bashing acceptable Wilson- “citizens born…. Under other flags [inject] the poison of disloyalty.” The American Civil Liberties Union Defended immigrants & other “undesirables”

    10. GROUP PAIR SHARE DIRECTIONS Get in groups of four. Half of you will be assigned the role of “Reds” and the other half will be assigned the role of Uncle Sam. Discuss the following and how you think your character would respond: Should the U.S. be open to all beliefs? Does the government have an obligation to protect or to prosecute those with radical or revolutionary ideas? Whose country is this anyhow?

    11. The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial Various tensions collide Celebrated case in U.S. History Case: “The people of Mass. Vs. Sacco/Venzetti” S & V Profile Active anarchists, Italian immig., protested Palmer raids Factors Police arrest S/V for robbery and murder Prosecution case lacked sound concrete evid. S/V lacked a secure written alibi and carried guns Judge in case openly against S/V “those anarchist bastards”

    12. Outcome: Guilty 6 years of protests/appeals S/V were put to death in August 1927 Historians still argue about their innocence All agree that their rights were violated “I don’t think I have the right to say he is the man.” “Damn them, they ought to hang anyway.”

    13. Sacco’s Letter to His Son What is the mood of this song? Who is this song written for? What is the advice being given by the speaker? What is going to happen to the speaker? What does this song tell us about the tensions in the 1920’s? Why is this significant for you today as a history student and person living in the U.S.?

    14. Rising Intolerance Individual/Organized racial discrimination by “White Americans” The New Ku Klux Klan Philosophy-to be truly Amer. Need to belong to one race, religion, and political and economic philosophy. 1924- 4 million members KKK Violence Responsible for beatings/killings Mainstream acceptance diminished

    15. From Racial Intolerance to Violence Racial Riots broke out across the nation. Lynching unlawful mob killings Death by hanging Most often by whites against blacks Attracted thousands of spectators Torture victim before hanging ”surgery below the belt” Those involved “justified” their actions

    16. “Strange Fruit” Mood? Feeling? What is the “Strange Fruit”? Description of horror of lynching? What did Performers and writers want to accomplish? Goals realized 1920’s?

    17. Marcus Garvey/Black Pride Black Pride/Separatism Garvey/ Other African American Leaders Decline of the UNIA

    18. The Science vs. Religion Debate Science, Fundamentalism, and Modernism The Scopes Trial

    19. PROCESS NOTES REVIEW CLARIFY INTERACT Comments Study questions Main ideas drawings SUMMARIZE Summarize

    20. ACROSTIC DIRECTIONS Using your notes & working independently create an acrostic using the word TWENTIES RUBRIC Illustrations for two lines (4pts) Describe six aspects of the 1920’s (12 pts.) Total Points = 16

    21. T… W… E… N… T… I.. E… S..

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