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20:1 Post War Issues

20:1 Post War Issues. Problems facing America. League of Nations Progressive changes Readjustment to peace Economy Employment. American response to post war conditions. Nativism isolationism. Communism. Single party-dictatorship No private property

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20:1 Post War Issues

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  1. 20:1 Post War Issues

  2. Problems facing America • League of Nations • Progressive changes • Readjustment to peace • Economy • Employment

  3. American response to post war conditions • Nativism • isolationism

  4. Communism • Single party-dictatorship • No private property • Government ownership of farms, factories, businesses, etc. • Lenin/Bolshevik Revolution/Red Russia

  5. First Red Scare • Communist Party in the U.S. 1919-20,000 • Violence • IWW-Wobblies • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

  6. Red Scare

  7. Palmer Raids • J. Edgar Hoover • Communists, socialists, anarchists • Civil liberties • 1920 Presidential election

  8. Sacco and Vanzetti • Victims of red scare • Italian immigrants and anarchists • Conviction/sentence • effects

  9. “Keep America for Americans” • Nativism • Anti-immigrant • Jobs • Standard of living • Anarchists/Socialists/Communists?

  10. The Birth of a Nation

  11. The Second Ku Klux Klan • 100% Americanism • 1924 4.5 million • Targets: Blacks, Catholics, Jews, Immigrants, Radicals, Unions

  12. The Lynching of Leo Frank • The lynching of Leo Frank. Convicted of the rape and murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan. It was the focus of many conflicting cultural pressures, and the jury's conclusion represented in part, class and regional resentment of educated Northern industrialists who were perceived to be wielding too much power in the South, threatening southern culture and morality. Sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was kidnapped from prison and lynched.

  13. Emergency Quota Act 1921 • Immigrant numbers • Quota system • Discriminatory

  14. Labor Unrest • Strikes in 1919 • Unions linked to communism

  15. 1919 Boston Police Strike • problem • MA Governor Coolidge/National Guard • effects

  16. 1919 Steel Mill Strike • Problem • Violent strike • Company propaganda • Wilson • effects

  17. 1919 Coal Miner Strike • United Mine Workers of America • John L. Lewis • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer • President Wilson

  18. Labor Movement Loses Appeal • Membership decline • Pg. 624

  19. 20:2 The Harding PresidencyA Return to Normalcy

  20. Disarmament • Sec. of State Charles Evans Hughes • Navy reduction • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  21. Paying back War Debt • Fordney-McCumber Tariff • Germany’s reparations • Dawes Plan • hostility

  22. Dawes Plan

  23. Harding’s Cabinet Sec. of State-Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of Commerce-Herbert Hoover Secretary of the Treasury-Andrew Mellon V. The Ohio Gang

  24. Ohio Gang • Graft • Charles R. Forbes-Veterans Bureau

  25. Teapot Dome Scandal • Teapot dome, WY for U.S. Navy • Secretary of the Interior-Albert B. Fall • Leased public oil reserves for private gain

  26. Harding’s Death • Died amongst scandal • Calvin Coolidge

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