THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ OBJ: To understand the effects of WWI on America in the 1920’s by looking at the tension within society
SEEING RED! SOCIETY IN CONFLICT – TRADITIONAL VALUES VS. MODERNITY WWI PROPAGANDA CREATED CLIMATE OF INTOLERANCE THE RED SCARE – 1919-1920 HEIGHT- POST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AVOID FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS RETURN TO ISOLATION THE FIGHTING QUAKER – A. MITCHELL PALMER: ACTS OF INDIVIDUALS RATHER THAN COLLECTIVE OVERTHROW PALMER RAIDS, WALL STREET BOMBINGS & DEPORTATIONS ANTI RADICALISM & ANTI IMMIGRATION FEEINGS CRESTED IN RED SCARE FEAR OF REVOLUTION IF IT CAN HAPPEN IN RUSSIA IT CAN HAPPEN HERE FOCUS ON UNIONS (IWW ESPECIALLY)
THE BASTIONS OF COMMUNISM DEMANDS FOR LONG OVERDUE RAISES 4 MILLION STRIKERS, 3600 STRIKES, $2 BILLION IN DAMAGES 5MILL MEMBERS IN 1920 EUGENE DEBS MORE RADICAL & DEMANDS MORE RIGHTS FOR WORKERS BUT BENEFITS WILL BE MARGINAL AT BEST GOVERNMENT USE OF INJUNCTIONS, YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS & EMPLOYER USE OF ‘WELFARE CAPITALISM’ (MORE PAY, VACATIONS, BENEFITS) BISBEE 1917 BOSTON POLICE STRIKE 1919 SEATTLE LONGSHOREMEN 1919 US STEEL ALL PORTRAYED AS COMMUNIST REVOLUTION: UNION “VICTORY” WITH IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS “DUPLICATE ANARCHY OF RUSSIA”
AMERICA MUST BE KEPT AMERICAN RESURGENCE OF NATIVISM SURGE IN FUNDAMENTALISM – THE RURAL COUNTERATTACK KKK – MORE NATIVIST THAN ANTI-BLACK BUT…. ULTRACONSERVATIVE UPRISING AGAINST MODERNITY INTERNAL FIGHTING DOWNFALL SACCO & VANZETTI – XENOPHOBIC & ANTIRADICAL; INTOLERANCE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS; DEMOCRACY FLAWED, EXECUTED 1927 EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT 1921 IMMIGRATION ACT 1924 PROHIBITION & 18TH AMENDMENT 1919
RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM SCOPES TRIAL – CONFLICT B/W FUND-AMENTAL CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SPURRED SOCIAL TENSIONS POST WAR PROTESTANTS FACED EXPANDING ROMAN CATHOLIC & JEWISH POPULATION TENNESSEE LAW CHALLENGED BY ACLU DARROW FOR DEFENSE & BRYAN FOR THE US GOVERNMENT VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT HOLLOW BRYAN DIES SHORTLY THEREAFTER