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In this picture we see the World War I Victory Parade hailing the return of General John Pershing and his troops in Buffalo, New York, in 1919.

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1 In this picture we see the World War I Victory Parade hailing the return of General John Pershing and his troops in Buffalo, New York, in 1919.

2 In this picture we see angry strikers throwing rocks to protest low wages and unfair labor practices in 1916.

3 Aftermath of a 1920 car bombing on Wall and Broad Streets, New York.

4 Alexander Mitchell Palmer, President Wilsons’s Attorney General, who was responsible for the country’s first “red scare”.

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6 Vanzetti and Sacco listening to their death sentence in a Massachusetts court room on July 9, 1927

7 Marcus Garvey presiding over a meeting of his back-to-Africa followers in Harlem.

8 In this photograph, forty thousand members of the Klan march down Pennsylvania Avenue on August 8, 1925.

9 Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Evolution Trial, Dayton, Tennessee, July 1925

10 Economy: people against unions and strikes, feel communist influence Red Scare: people are suspicious of labor leaders and immigrants, people put in jail, executed Ku Klux Klan: “nativists”, spread hatred of blacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners in general. African Americans: pride, Harlem Renaissance of the arts/artists Women: right to vote in 1920 (19 th amendment), more women in workforce, college degrees


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