Ch.21 A Turbulent Decade

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Ch.21 A Turbulent Decade

• Discuss the economic conditions after the war.
• Explain the reaction to the new immigration.

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Bellringer

• The war is over. What does this mean to
  Americans?

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Copy HW

• Read and outline p. 628-633
• Questions
• What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case show about
  the society at the time?
• Why did the US Senate reject the Treaty of
  Versailles?
• Why did the US enter WWI?
• Discuss the significance of McCulloch v.
  Maryland?

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Intro

• Look at the Almanac on p. 618-619 Name one
  topic of interest from one of the categories.

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Postwar Troubles

• Demobilization
• Shift from Wartime to peacetime
• Rapid after WWI 4 million soldiers returned to
  civilian life in a year
• Women had to relinquish jobs
• Inflation skyrocketed (spending spree caused
  demand to outpace supply)

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1920-1921 Recession

• 2 billion in war contracts cancelled
• 10 of labor force unemployed
• Farm Crisis
• Prices fell
• Debt causes problems
• Sound familiar?

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Labor Strife

• Management ignored labor demands
• 1919- 3600 strikes 4 million workers
• Seattle General Strike (Feb. 1919)
• Shipyard workers demanded higher pay and shorter
  workdays
• 110 other unions joined
• 60K workers walked off jobs
• Mayor blamed on bolsheviks and summoned police

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• Strike ended after 5 days
• No demands met
• Negative publicity for labor unions

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• Boston Police Strike unsuccessful
• The Steel Strike 365 K workers walked off jobs
  
• labeled immigrants as non- loyal Americans
• Brought in AAs and Mex-Ams to work
• Unsuccessful

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THE RED SCARE

• Anti-communist hysteria
• The Palmer Raids
• 1919- 36 bombs found in US mail
• Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmers house
  bombed by an Italian anarchist
• Palmer launched an anti-Red crusade
• J. Edgar Hoover put in charge
• Raids arrested thousands most immigrants

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• Emma Goldman jailed in 1917 for opposing draft
• Author of Mother Earth
• 1919- deported to Russia

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Sacco and Vanzetti

• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti tried for a
  payroll robbery and murder in Boston
• Convicted and sentenced to death
• Outcry belief that they were found guilty due to
  their anarchist beliefs
• International appeal
• Aug. 23, 1927 electrocuted

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• Upton Sinclair and Boston
• On August 23, 1977 Governor Dukakis issued
  proclamation that said that they had been treated
  unjustly and "any disgrace should be forever
  removed from their names."

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Closure

• What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case reveal about
  America in the 1920s?