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The Roaring Twenties!

The Roaring Twenties!. Post WWI. U.S. exhausted from WWI, and deeply divided over the League of Nations. Returning soldiers faced: Unemployment Doubled costs of living Wartime orders stopped, hurt production in: Farmers Factory workers. Paranoia . Nativism: Prejudice against foreigners

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The Roaring Twenties!

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  1. The Roaring Twenties!

  2. Post WWI • U.S. exhausted from WWI, and deeply divided over the League of Nations. • Returning soldiers faced: • Unemployment • Doubled costs of living • Wartime orders stopped, hurt production in: • Farmers • Factory workers

  3. Paranoia • Nativism: Prejudice against foreigners • Isolationism: Pulling away from involvement in foreign affairs. • Americans were seeing threats around every corner… • Communism scare, aka… • RED SCARE! • Several bombs delivered gov’t buildings and businesses added to fears.

  4. Palmer Raids • J. Edgar Hoover conducted raids against the following groups: • Anarchists • Socialists • Communists • Efforts to find explosives and other revolution evidence unsuccessful: • Deported hundreds of foreign born radicals • Civil rights violated • Jailed subjects without legal counsel • Invading private homes and offices.

  5. J. Edgar Hoover

  6. Fear of the Outside • Sacco and Venzetti (1920) • Italian immigrant anarchists accused of murder • Witnesses claimed criminals appeared to be Italian • Both gave alibis and pleaded innocence. • Jury found the pair guilty, death by electric chair • Anti-immigrant sentiment was spreading • “Keep America for Americans”

  7. The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) • Established in 1846, but gained popularity with nativist sentiment. • 1924 – 4.5 million members. • All white male, natural born citizens. • Opposed: • African Americans • Catholics • Roman Catholics • Jewish citizens • Foreign • Viewed as a social group, not hate group at the time.

  8. KKK baseball

  9. Removing ingredients from the pot. • Quota system: established a maximum number of people who could enter the United States from a foreign country. • Ended up discriminating mainly against Roman Catholics and Jew • Specifically prohibited Japanese immigration to the United States.

  10. Strike 3…thousand • Workers weren’t permitted to strike during WWI. • Would damage the war effort. • During 1919 there were 3,000 strikes • The papers used Communism as the scape goat for these strikes • Real reasons? • Wanted raises • Wanted to join unions.

  11. 1 Strike • Boston Police Strikes • Police hadn’t been given a raise since the beginning of WWI • Police who asked for raises were fired. • Police force of Boston then went on strike • Gov. of Mass. Calvin Coolidge ordered in National Guard • Police who went on strike weren’t rehired, new policemen were hired.

  12. Strike 2 • The Steel Mill Strike • Workers wanted to negotiate three things: • Living wage • Shorter working hours • Union recognition and collective bargaining • 300,000 workers went on strike • Companies hired scabs • Striking workers were beat • After a report of harsh working conditions was released, public sympathized. • Steel companies agreed to wages, but no unions.

  13. Strike 3!!! • Coal Miner’s Strike • 1919 United Mine workers went on strike for higher wages • New leader for the group: John L. Lewis • Agree publicly to end the strike • Quietly told workers to continue • Eventually President Wilson assigned a judge as a mediator. • Coal workers received a 27% raise.

  14. No goods for you • After WWI, France and Britain had to pay back debts to the U.S. • 2 Ways: • Through selling goods to the US • Getting the money from Germany • The US passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. • Raised tariffs by 60% • How is this bad?

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