1. THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’
OBJ: To understand the effects of WWI on America in the 1920’s by looking at the tension within society

2. SEEING RED! SOCIETY IN CONFLICT – TRADITIONAL VALUES VS. MODERNITY
WWI PROPAGANDA CREATED CLIMATE OF INTOLERANCE
THE RED SCARE – HEIGHT- POST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
AVOID FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS RETURN TO ISOLATION
THE FIGHTING QUAKER – A. MITCHELL PALMER: ACTS OF INDIVIDUALS RATHER THAN COLLECTIVE OVERTHROW
PALMER RAIDS, WALL STREET BOMBINGS & DEPORTATIONS
ANTI RADICALISM & ANTI IMMIGRATION FEEINGS CRESTED IN RED SCARE
FEAR OF REVOLUTION
IF IT CAN HAPPEN IN RUSSIA IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
FOCUS ON UNIONS (IWW ESPECIALLY)

3. THE BASTIONS OF COMMUNISM
DEMANDS FOR LONG OVERDUE RAISES
4 MILLION STRIKERS, 3600 STRIKES, $2 BILLION IN DAMAGES
5MILL MEMBERS IN 1920
EUGENE DEBS MORE RADICAL & DEMANDS MORE RIGHTS FOR WORKERS BUT BENEFITS WILL BE MARGINAL AT BEST
GOVERNMENT USE OF INJUNCTIONS, YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS & EMPLOYER USE OF ‘WELFARE CAPITALISM’ (MORE PAY, VACATIONS, BENEFITS)
BISBEE 1917
BOSTON POLICE STRIKE 1919
SEATTLE LONGSHOREMEN 1919
US STEEL
ALL PORTRAYED AS COMMUNIST REVOLUTION: UNION “VICTORY” WITH IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS
“DUPLICATE ANARCHY OF RUSSIA”

4. AMERICA MUST BE KEPT AMERICAN
RESURGENCE OF NATIVISM
SURGE IN FUNDAMENTALISM – THE RURAL COUNTERATTACK
KKK – MORE NATIVIST THAN ANTI-BLACK BUT….
ULTRACONSERVATIVE UPRISING AGAINST MODERNITY
INTERNAL FIGHTING DOWNFALL
SACCO & VANZETTI – XENOPHOBIC & ANTIRADICAL; INTOLERANCE AGAINST IMMIGRANTS; DEMOCRACY FLAWED, EXECUTED 1927
EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT 1921
IMMIGRATION ACT 1924
PROHIBITION & 18TH AMENDMENT 1919

5. RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
SCOPES TRIAL – CONFLICT B/W FUND-AMENTAL CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SPURRED SOCIAL TENSIONS
POST WAR PROTESTANTS FACED EXPANDING ROMAN CATHOLIC & JEWISH POPULATION
TENNESSEE LAW CHALLENGED BY ACLU
DARROW FOR DEFENSE & BRYAN FOR THE US GOVERNMENT
VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT HOLLOW
BRYAN DIES SHORTLY THEREAFTER