The Red Scare And Nativism Alex Wickel, Yareli Martinez, Delana Kerr, Billy Myers

Postwar Trends Nativism: Prejudice against foreign-born people Isolationism: A policy of pulling away involvement in world affairs World War One left most of the American public exhausted, and the debate over the League of Nations deeply divided America. The time known as the Progressive Era had caused numerous, wrenching changes in the common American life.

The Postwar Trends The economy was In a difficult state of adjustment, as a result the cost of living had almost doubled. Returning soldiers often faced unemployment or took their jobs back from women and minorities. Many farmers and factory workers suffered as wartime orders diminished

The Red Scare The Red Scare began in the U.S. in 1919 after the czarist regime was overthrown by revolutionists in Russia. Communists cried out for a worldwide revolution that would abolish Capitalism everywhere. 70,000 radicals in the U.S. soon joined a Communist party that formed within the U.S Bombs were mailed to both government leaders and business leaders. This caused fear within the U.S., many citizens fearing that the Communists were starting to take over.

Limiting Immigration Anti-Immigrant attitudes had been growing in the United States ever since the 1880’s when new immigrants began arriving from Southern and Eastern Europe. After World War 1, the need for unskilled labor in the United States decreased. Nativists believed that because the United States now had fewer unskilled jobs available in the country, fewer immigrants should be allowed in the country.

A Time Of Unrest during the war the government wouldn’t allow workers to strike because nothing could interfere with the war effort saw more than 3,000 strike while 4 million workers walked off the job, because employers didn’t want to give raises. The Boston police had not been given a raise since the beginning of world war 1 when representatives asked for a raise and were fired the remaining police men started a strike. Much work consisted of immigrants willing to work in poor conditions.

A Time Of Unrest Farmers who had migrated to cities to find factory jobs were used to relying on themselves Most unions excluded African americans By 1929 about 82,000 African Americans or less than 1 percent of their population.