1. SWBAT: Identify the reasons for the emerging fear of communism during the 1920s
Do Now:
Introduction: A Red Revolution Worksheet

2. Introduction: A Red Revolution
Task: Fill in the chart below to highlight three important ways the Soviet Communist system of government was different than the system of government found here in the United States.
USA
USSR 1 2 3
Why might many of these Americans have been afraid of the Soviet Communist government?

3. Post-War Labor Struggles
Why might middle class and wealthy Americans like J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller have had different attitudes about labor strikes then workers who walked off their jobs in 1919 and 1920?
Working Men On Strike In Brooklyn, 1918

4. Check for Understanding
What are two symbols in the political cartoon and what do they represent?
What message is the cartoonist trying to express about the United States in the early 1920s?
European
Anarchy

5. The Red Scare
The Red Scare was a period of general fear of communism following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917.
•Communism was a direct threat to the American form of life.
•Americans in general were wary of and even attacked immigrants from European countries like Germany and Austria-Hungary.

6. The Palmer Raids
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and assistant J. Edgar Hoover set up “mass raids and deportations of alleged Communists, Bolsheviks, and ‘reds’ of various shades.”
A. Mitchell Palmer’s House after attempted bombing by radicals

7. Growing Nativism
Anti-Immigrant groups like the Ku Klux Klan used terror to intimidate Jews, Catholics, Communists, Socialists, and Labor Union leaders.

8. Growing Nativism
Emergency Quota Act of 1921 restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that same country living in the United States as of the U.S. Census of 1910.
National Origins Act of 1924 limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890.

10. Check for Understanding
What are two symbols in the political cartoon and what do they represent?
What message is the cartoonist trying to express about the United States in the early 1920s?

11. Sacco and Vanzetti
Sacco and Vanzetti were suspected anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed on August 23, 1927.

12. Why was there an emerging fear of communism during the 1920s?
Sum It Up
Why was there an emerging fear of communism during the 1920s?