1. US - Life in the 1920s Part 2
End of WWI & Victory Parade
Strikes & Labor Unrest
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
N. Vanetti & B. Sacco
Clarence Darrow & Scopes trial

2. US - Life in the 1920s Part 2

3. End of WWI & Victory Parade
WWI ends November, 1918
US Celebrates the victory with parades in NYC.
4+ million soldiers return home from being mobilized in the war

4. Strikes & Labor Unrest Famous strikes:
Strikes - workers refusal to work unless their demands are met.
Prices of goods started to rise, workers wages rose much more slowly
Unsafe, unfair business practices
million workers went on strike.
Famous strikes:
Boston Police Strike, 1919
No. Indiana Steelworkers, 1919
United Mine Workers Coal Mine Strike, 1919

5. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
Appointed by President Woodrow Wilson.
Responsible for the US’ 1st “Red Scare”.
“Palmer raids” - rounded up Soviet immigrants, deported or detained them. Acts of government repression.
ACLU founded by U. Sinclair & Jane Adams.
Provided legal assistance to victims of Palmer’s tactics.

6. “Red Scare”

7. “Palmer Raids”

8. N. Vanetti & B. Sacco
April a robbery at a factory in So. Braintree, MA,
Resulted in two deaths
3 weeks later, these 2 Italian immigrants were arrested.
Known Anarchists and protesters of the “Palmer Raids”.
Convicted based upon contradictory evidence and testimony.
Honorable judge W. Thayer sentenced the accused to death.
Mass American and foreign protest did not change the verdict.
Executed on Aug. 23, 1927
Claim - innocent victims of the “Red Scare”.

9. Clarence Darrow & Scopes trial
July, Dayton, Tennessee
John Scopes was arrested and tried for teaching the theory of evolution.
Scientific theory of C. Darwin, cited by traditionalists as destroying faith in the Bible.
ACLU hired C. Darrow, most famous attorney of the day, to defend Scopes. Took the case without pay.
So called “monkey trial”