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Palmer Raids Activity
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What is Communism? Did America support it?
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Communism A theory Workers will own all the ways of making $$$ – Land – Machines – Stores
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No private business No one person to become very rich
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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
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http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/03/24/high-income-americans- 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
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https://www.redfin.com/research/reports/special-reports/2014/california-home- 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.
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Social Conflict Wave of strikes Passage of Prohibition & Woman Suffrage Chicago Race Riot
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Early 1900’s Many in U.S. believed in socialism because of huge gap between rich & poor Many joined labor unions, some were socialist
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1917 Bolshevik Revolution In U.S. some inspired, some afraid Some Anarchists (didn’t believe in gov) thought gov should be overthrown with violence
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Palmer Summer 1919 bombings in 8 cities by suspected anarchists Attorney General Palmer’s house bombed Raids focused on aliens
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We are going to learn what happened to people who believed in socialist ideas right after WW1
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOzlo8g SlQ
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