Wars Impact on America
Disease Flu epidemic of [Credit: Office of the Public Health Service Historian]
Labor Intolerance Strikes –Seattle General Strike –Boston Police Strike –National Steel Strike [Credit: Seattle General Strike Project: Washington University] [Credit: Boston Public Library]
Racial Intolerance Ku Klux Klan –Re-established 1915 –White Supremacy –Fight for “Americanism” © Jack Benton—Hulton Archive/Getty Images © Culver Pictures/PNI
Between 4 and 5 million members in 1924
Racial Intolerance Red Summer of 1919 –Black vs. White Omaha Courthouse Lynching 1919
Immigration Intolerance Red Scare Fear of Communism Palmer RaidsDeportation Civil Liberties violated A. Mitchell Palmer
Immigration Intolerance Sacco-Vanzetti Case –Accused of murder –Anti-immigrant & Anti radical testimony –Executed [Credit: Brandies University]
Immigration Intolerance Government –Emergency Quota Act – 1921 –National Origins Act [Credit:The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation]
Social Intolerance Scopes “Monkey Trial –John T. Scopes (Bio. teacher) –Evolution vs. Religion –Scopes convictedProhibition Copyright ©