America Struggles with Postwar Issues

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America Struggles with Postwar Issues Chapter 20 Section 1

Do Now: Should there ever be a time when Americans lose their rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights? Freedom of Speech, Religion Right to bare arms Trial by Jury

What issues did America Face after WWI? Soldiers faced unemployment Took jobs from women and minorities Cost of living doubled Farmers and factory workers suffered as wartime orders diminished

Isolationism and Nativism Nativism- Prejudice against foreign-born people Why did it sweep the nation? Isolationism- policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

Greatest fear was Communism 1919- Lenin established communism in Russia Called out to end all capitalism Communist Party had over 70,000 members in the US Led to the Red Scare

Red Scare affects many The Palmer Raids- hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists Invaded private homes and offices- jailed people without lawyers- deported thousands

Philosophical Chair: The government should always listen to the majority of the people? Should there ever be an exception?

Anti-immigrant feelings grow Ku Klux Klan- 4.5 million members by 1924 Opposed blacks, Roman Catholics, Jews, and all foreign born people

Congress takes action against immigrants Emergency Quota Act of 1921 Limited immigrants to 2% of its nationals living in the US in 1890 Targeted eastern and southern Europe Prohibited the Japanese

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