1. Ch.21 A Turbulent Decade
Discuss the economic conditions after the war.
Explain the reaction to the new immigration.

2. Bellringer
The war is over. What does this mean to Americans?

3. Copy HW Read and outline p. 628-633 Questions
What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case show about the society at the time?
Why did the US Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
Why did the US enter WWI?
Discuss the significance of McCulloch v. Maryland?

4. Intro
Look at the Almanac on p – Name one topic of interest from one of the categories….

5. Postwar Troubles Demobilization Shift from Wartime to peacetime
Rapid after WWI – 4 million soldiers returned to civilian life in a year
Women had to relinquish jobs
Inflation skyrocketed (spending spree caused demand to outpace supply)

6. 1920-1921 Recession $2 billion in war contracts cancelled
10%+ of labor force unemployed
Farm Crisis
Prices fell
Debt causes problems
Sound familiar?

7. Labor Strife Management ignored labor demands
strikes – 4 million workers
Seattle General Strike (Feb. 1919)
Shipyard workers demanded higher pay and shorter workdays
110 other unions joined
60K workers walked off jobs
Mayor blamed on bolsheviks and summoned police

9. Strike ended after 5 days
No demands met
Negative publicity for labor unions

10. Boston Police Strike – unsuccessful
The Steel Strike – 365 K workers walked off jobs –
labeled immigrants as non- loyal Americans
Brought in AAs and Mex-Ams to work
Unsuccessful

11. THE RED SCARE Anti-communist hysteria The Palmer Raids
bombs found in US mail
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s house bombed by an Italian anarchist
Palmer launched an anti-Red crusade
J. Edgar Hoover put in charge
Raids arrested thousands – most immigrants

14. Emma Goldman – jailed in 1917 for opposing draft
Author of Mother Earth
1919- deported to Russia

15. Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti tried for a payroll robbery and murder in Boston
Convicted and sentenced to death
Outcry –belief that they were found guilty due to their anarchist beliefs
International appeal
Aug. 23, 1927 – electrocuted

18. Upton Sinclair and Boston
On August 23, 1977 Governor Dukakis issued proclamation that said that they had been treated unjustly and "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names."

19. Closure
What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case reveal about America in the 1920s?