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Postwar Problems

Postwar Problems. Trends. Nativism: Prejudice against foreign-born people that sweeps across the nation. Isolationism: U.S. policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs. Communism Panic.

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Postwar Problems

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  1. Postwar Problems

  2. Trends • Nativism: • Prejudice against foreign-born people that sweeps across the nation. • Isolationism: • U.S. policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.

  3. Communism Panic • Communism: Government run by a dictator, equalizes by ending private property and making all businesses government owned. • Red Scare: Americans feared a world workers revolution as Communists in the U.S. became violent.

  4. Consequences • Palmer Raids • Att. Gen. Palmer assigns J. Edgar Hoover to hunt down communists, socialists, and anarchists. Hundreds deported and civil rights violated. • Complete phony. • Sacco and Vanzetti • Italian Immigrants tried and executed for a crime they may or may not have committed.

  5. Limiting Immigration • KKK • KKK returns, focused on immigrants and anything “UnAmerican”. • Loses popularity over criminal activities. • Quota System: Emergency Quota Act • Limits Immigration from certain continents and countries. • Focused on Southern and Eastern Europe and Japan.

  6. Labor Unrest • Labor Board no longer controls strikes. • Boston Police Strike • Police strike ends, but all fired…Coolidge hires vets and National Guard. • Steel Mill Strike • 300,000 workers strike. • Strikers beaten by police and troops. • Strikers lose union, but get 8 hour work day.

  7. Coal Miners Strike • Union led by John Lewis strikes. • Miners achieve pay increase, but still have long work hours. • End of Labor Movement • 1)Immigrants willing to work in bad conditions. • 2)Unions couldn’t overcome language barrier. • 3)Migrating farmers relied on themselves. • 4)African Americans excluded.

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