POST WORLD WAR I KEY ISSUES

POSTWAR TRENDS AMERICANS EXHAUSTED DEBATE OVER LEAGUE OF NATIONS DIVIDES AMERICA PROGRESSIVE ERA BROUGHT MANY CHANGES ECONOMY IN STATE OF ADJUSTMENT COST OF LIVING DOUBLED FARMERS AND FACTORY WORKERS SUFFER

ISOLATIONISM AND NATIVISM PREVAIL ISOLATIONISM – THE U.S. PULLS AWAY FROM INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD AFFAIRS NATIVISM – PREJUDICE AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN PEOPLE SWEEPS THE NATION

THE RED SCARE BOLSHEVIKS UNDER LENIN CREATE COMMUNIST STATE IN RUSSIA – 1917 COMMUNIST PARTY FORMS IN U.S. RADICALS AND I.W.W. MEMBERS JOIN MAIL BOMBS SENT!! ANARCHIST BOMBING OF WALL STREET

ATTORNEY GENERAL A. MITCHELL PALMER RESPONDS!

‘PALMER RAIDS’ VIOLATE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND UNCOVER LITTLE EVIDENCE.

SACCO AND VANZETTI ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS AND ANARCHISTS FOUND GUILTY OF ROBBERY AND MURDER MUCH GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR THEIR EXONERATION

IMMIGRATION LIMITED SLOGAN: “KEEP AMERICA FOR AMERICANS” EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT OF 1921 –QUOTA SYSTEM – ESTABLISHES MAX NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO COULD ENTER THE U.S. –DISCRIMINATED AGAINST PEOPLE FROM EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE –JAPANESE IMMIGRATION PROHIBITED

RISE OF KU KLUX KLAN INCREASED MEMBERSHIP AGAINST AFRICAN- AMERICANS, UNIONS, ROMAN CATHOLICS, JEWS, AND FOREIGN- BORN PEOPLE

LABOR UNREST 1919 – MORE THAN 3,000 STRIKES BOSTON POLICE STRIKE STEEL MILL STRIKE COAL MINER STRIKE –JOHN L. LEWIS

DECLINE OF LABOR UNIONS WHY?? –IMMIGRANTS WILLING TO WORK IN POOR CONDITIONS –ORGANIZING DIFFICULT (SO MANY LANGUAGES) –FORMER FARMERS WORKING IN FACTORIES SELF-RELIANT –UNIONS EXCLUDED AFRICAN-AMERICANS