1. Postwar Struggles in the 1920’s

2. Why was America’s transition from war to peace so turbulent?

3. Postwar Stressful Conditions after the war
Divided over the League of Nations
Cost of living increase, need for workers decrease
Tensions with immigrants, minorities, communists, laborers

4. Fears Nativism Isolationism Normalcy Fundamentalism
Prejudice against foreign born people
Leftover patriotism from war
Isolationism
Staying out of world affairs
Did not join League of Nations
Normalcy
Return to the way things were
Fundamentalism
Rejection of evolution, only Biblical teachings

5. The Red Scare Fear of communism 1919 - Russian Revolution
Economic and political system ruled by a dictator
Government owned businesses to equalize power and wealth
Russian Revolution
Set up Communist State (Reds)

6. Sacco and Vanzetti Italian immigrant anarchists
Arrested for robbery and murder
Pled not guilty, had alibis, little evidence against them
Put to death

8. Quota System “Keep America for the Americans”
Congress limited immigration from certain countries (Emergency Quota Act of 1921)
Eastern and Southern Europe, Japan
Roman Catholics and Jews
Increased in Canada and Mexico

9. KKK Ku Klux Klan resurgence Harassed any group not “American”
White, Christian, native born citizens
Harassed any group not “American”
Immigrants, Catholics, Jews, minorities, unions, communists
1924 – 4.5 million members

12. Rise of the KKK
"..beyond any doubt the KKK is the largest and most cohesive, most efficiently organized political force in the state…"
Denver Post, 1925
1925 Downtown Denver KKK rally
KKK member Clarence Morley serves as Colorado governor

13. Labor Unrest Workers still do not have basic rights
8 hr work day, minimum wage, breaks, safe conditions, right to have unions
Strikers labeled as communists

14. Strikes Boston Police Steel Mill Coal Miners Raise
Governor called National Guard
All fired
Steel Mill
Shorter days, better wages, allowed unions
Hired “strikebreakers”
Coal Miners
Shorter days, better wages
Court ordered back to work
Received 27% wage increase
Didn’t get shorter days or weeks