1. How did Americans Adjust with Post War Issues?
U.S. History & Government
11th Grade Boys/Girls
7 May 2019

2. War’s Effect on America
Public opinion divided about the League of Nations
Economy was hurt
Returning soldiers took jobs away from women and minorities
Some faced unemployment
Social Division
Nativism & isolationism swept over America

3. Communism was viewed as a threat to American way of life
Fear of Communism
Communism was viewed as a threat to American way of life
Communism: an economic and political system that supports government control over property to create equality
Some communists also believed in only one party
Communists’ use of violent revolution – Bolsheviks under Lenin’s leadership created 1st communist state in Russia.

4. Fear of Communism Red Scare Many Americans join U.S. Communist Party
Many People feared the “Reds”
An agency (Later FBI) was created by the Justice Department to arrests socialists and anarchists by A.G. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer threw many radicals out of the country

5. Red scare…………
Many people suffered because of the abuse of power
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
They were executed in 1927

6. Limiting Immigration
Some people used Red Scare as an excuse to act against anybody who looked different
KKK was revived
Acted against blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics, immigrants and Union leaders
Nativism (anti-immigrant feelings) caused the Congress to pass Emergency Quota Act of 1921
1924 limited immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe and banned immigration from Japan

7. Boston Police Officers’ Strike for living wage
Labor Unrest
3 Major Strikes
Boston Police Officers’ Strike for living wage
which was put down by force by MA governor C. Coolidge
Steel workers’ strike by workers at U.S. Steel Corporation
Demanded the right to make union
Public opinion forced the company to give 8 Hour work-day, but no union

8. United Mine Workers’ led by John L. Lewis
Labor Unrest
United Mine Workers’ led by John L. Lewis
Wilson Mediated
Workers got high wages but no shorter work-day
1925: Founding of “Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters” by Philip Randolph for African Americans
Few blacks joined

9. Declining Labor Unions
Union Membership declined in the 1920s for following reasons:
Immigrants were willing to work on poor conditions
Language barrier made organizing people difficult
Farmers who migrated to cities were used to relying on themselves
Most unions excluded African-Americans

10. Home Work
Questions 1, 2, & 3 on page 624