Palmer Raids Activity

What is Communism? Did America support it?

Communism A theory Workers will own all the ways of making $$$ – Land – Machines – Stores

No private business No one person to become very rich

Socialism On the way to communism Gov owns businesses/public services (healthcare) Laws that make rich people contribute more taxes so there isn’t a huge difference between rich & poor

pay-most-income-taxes-but-enough-to-be-fair/ In 2013, according to our analysis of preliminary IRS data, people with adjusted gross incomes above $250,000 paid nearly half (48.9%) of all individual income taxes, though they accounted for only 2.4% of all returns filedIRS data People whose incomes were less than $50,000 accounted for 63.4% of all individual income tax returns filed in 2013, but they paid just 6.2% of total taxes

affordability-for-teachers.html#.VoqqI_krLIU Just 17 percent of homes for sale in California are affordable on a teacher’s salary. In San Francisco the average teacher can’t afford a single home. Current median list price in California $485,000, the state’s 300,000 teachers, who have an average annual salary of $69,300, will find it difficult to impossible to find an affordable home.

Social Conflict Wave of strikes Passage of Prohibition & Woman Suffrage Chicago Race Riot

Early 1900’s Many in U.S. believed in socialism because of huge gap between rich & poor Many joined labor unions, some were socialist

1917 Bolshevik Revolution In U.S. some inspired, some afraid Some Anarchists (didn’t believe in gov) thought gov should be overthrown with violence

Palmer Summer 1919 bombings in 8 cities by suspected anarchists Attorney General Palmer’s house bombed Raids focused on aliens

We are going to learn what happened to people who believed in socialist ideas right after WW1

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