Vocab List 16 -Cost of Living -General Strike -Deport -How many Race Riots in 1919? (p 201) -Red Scare -Teapot Dome Scandal (209) -Return to ”Normalcy”

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Vocab List 16 -Cost of Living -General Strike -Deport -How many Race Riots in 1919? (p 201) -Red Scare -Teapot Dome Scandal (209) -Return to ”Normalcy” (p 203)

Roaring Twenties WW I’s Impact

I. Background A) Progressive Era = Teddy (Big Stick) /Taft ($ Diplomacy) / Wilson (WW1) Labor Laws Alcohol = Crime → Prohibition Womens Suffrage Business Regulation Environment Conservation Graduated Income Tax B) War Ends 1m dead/injured/sick War Machine Agencies removed control from Economy Factories making war materials lay off workers Soldiers return, cant find work

II. Demobilization A) Cost of Living Increases Food no longer rationed for War Boom in spending → Product Shortages → Prices go up Wages did not increase enough B) Example: During WW1 - Told not to eat Grain, save for soldiers abroad 1919 Post WW1 - Everyone buys bread after years of rationing Not enough Bread → Bread worth more → Cant afford bread. Outrage.

III. Strikes = Unsuccessful A) Boston Police Strike 75% of police dept. on strike Rioting/Looting begin National Guard has to save Boston All strikers fired B) Gary Steel Strike - 350,000 steelworkers Strike Strikebreakers hired permanently C) Seattle General Strike - all workers strike paralyzing city 60,000 involved Nothing gained, people worry about communism

IV. Race Riots Returning Veterans blamed economic problems on African Americans Great Migration - A-Americans went N for jobs Gang fights, black vs. white, 25 cities

Video on the Race riots

V. The Red Scare A) Sources 1) Communist Revolution in Russia (Why Russia left WW1) 2) Strikes seen as method to start revolution B) Palmer Raids 04/1919 - 30 bombs mailed to prominent Americans 06/1919 - 8 bombs go off in 8 cities - killing hundreds Attny General Palmer created “General Intelligence Division” to combat revolutionary conspiracy This will become FBI 6,000 people arrested for “socialist ideology” 600 people deported

Video on the Red Scare

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