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On a new piece of notebook paper answer the following question: What effect did the transition from wartime to peacetime have on the U.S. economy? Yes, again. This is not a mistake.
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Analyze the affect demobilization had on the economy. Analyze the public’s response the union activity in 1919 and 1920.
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Supply and Demand More product than customers, price goes down. More customers than produce, price goes up. Power in the workplace More jobs than workers, workers have the power. More workers than job, employers have the power.
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Demobilization –transition from wartime to peacetime. Too many workers = unemployment = wages = women pushed out
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Immediately after war lack of product + spending = cost of living Recession during 1920-1921.
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Seattle general strike- non-violent general strike to support shipyard workers in 1919. Boston police strike- strike to get recognition of union. All police officers fired and replace by unemployed veterans. Calvin Coolige- Governor who supported firing of Boston police.
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UMW- United Mine Workers John L. Lewis - president of UMW.
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Red Scare- period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920. Any labor unrest was seen as sign of a Bolshevik like revolution.
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A. Mitchell Palmer – U.S. Attorney General who launched an anti-communist crusade. Palmer raids- arrest and deportation of immigrants suspected of radical activities.
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Italian anarchists accused of murdering a paymaster and a guard during a payroll robbery.
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