2.  Follow along in your notes from chapter 6 and write down anything new you learn from the video in your notes

5.  35,000 shipyard workers demand higher wages and shorter hours  “General Strike” involves all workers living in a certain location, not just workers in a particular industry  Seattle Strike involved more than 60,000 people  General Strike was common in Europe by communists and other radical

6.  Companies forced to raise wages during the war (National War Labor Board)  During the workers in labor unions increase  Big business determined to break union power  1919 - 3,600 strikes

8.  1919, Boston MA  75% of the police force walked off the job  Riots and looting erupted – Calving Coolidge called the National Guard “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”

9.  350,000 steelworkers went on strike for higher pay, shorter hours and recognition of their labor union  Elbert H. Gary, the head of U.S. Steel, refused to talk to union  Tried to break the union by using anti- immigrant feelings to divide the workers  Many steel workers were immigrants ◦ Companies hired African Americans and Mexicans as replacement workers

10.  Hundreds of thousands of soldiers  Competed with African Americans who had moved north during the war  1919, over 20 race riots broke out across the nation

11.  What were the major reasons for the race riots?  Who is the man smashing the black rioter and white together?

12.  Wave of strikes in 1919 fueled fears that Communists were conspiring to start a revolution  Americans were stunned (and scarred) when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power  Americans became anti-German as the war progressed  American anger at Germany expanded to anger at Communist

14.  Red Scare: Americans feared Communists, or “reds” as they were called, might seize power  April of 1919 the postal service incepted 30 parcels addressed to leading businessman and politicians with bombs in them  A Mitchell Palmer, U.S. Attorney General ◦ Believed the bombings were the work of Communists or other revolutionaries trying to destroy “American” way of life

15.  J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of the Justice Department, the General Intelligence Division  J. Edgar Hoover later became the director of the FBI  Series of raids rounded up and deported (expelled from the country) Americans

18.  On page ? of your note book draw a political cartoon of the “Red Scare” ◦ Remember what the reasons for social unrest were ◦ Remember the postal parcels bombs ◦ Remember the Palmer Raids