2. Vocab List 16
-Cost of Living -General Strike -Deport -How many Race Riots in 1919? (p 201) -Red Scare -Teapot Dome Scandal (209)
-Return to ”Normalcy” (p 203)

3. Roaring Twenties
WW I’s Impact

4. I. Background
A) Progressive Era = Teddy (Big Stick) /Taft ($ Diplomacy) / Wilson (WW1)
Labor Laws
Alcohol = Crime → Prohibition
Womens Suffrage
Business Regulation
Environment Conservation
Graduated Income Tax
B) War Ends
1m dead/injured/sick
War Machine Agencies removed control from Economy
Factories making war materials lay off workers
Soldiers return, cant find work

5. II. Demobilization A) Cost of Living Increases
Food no longer rationed for War
Boom in spending → Product Shortages → Prices go up
Wages did not increase enough
B) Example:
During WW1 - Told not to eat Grain, save for soldiers abroad
1919 Post WW1 - Everyone buys bread after years of rationing
Not enough Bread → Bread worth more → Cant afford bread.
Outrage.

6. III. Strikes = Unsuccessful
A) Boston Police Strike
75% of police dept. on strike
Rioting/Looting begin
National Guard has to save Boston
All strikers fired
B) Gary Steel Strike - 350,000 steelworkers Strike
Strikebreakers hired permanently
C) Seattle General Strike - all workers strike paralyzing city
60,000 involved
Nothing gained, people worry about communism

7. IV. Race Riots
Returning Veterans blamed economic problems on African Americans
Great Migration - A-Americans went N for jobs
Gang fights, black vs. white, 25 cities

8. Video on the Race riots

9. V. The Red Scare A) Sources
1) Communist Revolution in Russia (Why Russia left WW1)
2) Strikes seen as method to start revolution
B) Palmer Raids
04/ bombs mailed to prominent Americans
06/ bombs go off in 8 cities - killing hundreds
Attny General Palmer created “General Intelligence Division” to combat revolutionary conspiracy
This will become FBI
6,000 people arrested for “socialist ideology”
600 people deported

10. Video on the Red Scare