1. Quick Write Answer the following questions on a note card. This is a formative assessment, to make sure you learned the material. Based on the following learning target: ◦How did changing social viewpoints cause fear amongst Americans? 1. What is the difference between the beliefs of Capitalists, Socialists, Communists, and Anarchists? 2. Why were Socialism, Communism, and Anarchism prominent political movements in the early 1900s in the US? 3. What is nativism? 4. What was the Red Scare? 5. What is one example of government action that resulted from the Red Scare?

2. The Great Migration 1916-1930

4. The Great Migration Starting in the early 20 th century, African Americans left the South in large numbers and tried to find work and freedom in the North. WWI provided industrial work, and over 400,000 African Americans migrated from the South to Northern cities between 1916-1918 alone. The first Great Migration lasted until 1930, and resulted in a major shift in where African Americans lived in the United States

5. Chicago Race Riots On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager drowned in Lake Michigan after violating the unofficial segregation of Chicago’s beaches and being stoned by a group of white youths. His death, and the police’s refusal to arrest the white man whom eyewitnesses identified as causing it, sparked a week of rioting between gangs of black and white Chicagoans, concentrated on the South Side neighborhood surrounding the stockyards. When the riots ended on August 3, 15 whites and 23 blacks had been killed and more than 500 people injured; an additional 1,000 black families had lost their homes when they were torched by rioters.

6. Chicago Race Riots

7. Discussion Questions 1. According to the documents, what caused the Chicago Race Riots of 1919? 2. Do you think one of these causes led to the violence more than the other causes? Why? 3. Why do you think there were 20 riots across the nation that summer? 4. Do you think the Chicago Race Riots would have happened even if that boy didn’t get killed in lake Michigan? Why or why not?