1. Adjusting to Peace
11/9 – 11/10

2. Who are these guys? How do you know?
Warmup
Who are these guys? How do you know?

3. War Over! Americans must transition from wartime to peacetime
Transition brings with it some problems and concerns…

5. Working Conditions Following the War
2 million returning soldiers looking for work
End of wartime production led to closed factories and less jobs
Women pushed out of the workforce
Blacks, who moved north for jobs, lost their jobs
Mexicans, who moved north to take jobs, now unemployed (and being deported)
Competition for jobs led to class/racial tension and violence

6. Post-War Economic Downturn
Economic Downturn Caused By:
Labor surplus following the war
No more government regulation of industry
Rise in prices following the war
Cancellation of government contracts at the end of the war
No more need for war time production levels

8. Labor Unrest No jobs = labor unrest Over 3,600 strikes in 1919
Strikers faced violent opposition from companies, government, and the public
People scared of economic revolutions (like the communist revolution in Russia)
In reality, most American communists wanted to make conditions better, not completely change the system

10. Radicals and Bombs There WERE radicals who wanted to promote anarchy
In 1919 and 1920, a series of bombings took place across the country
Targeting industrialists and politicians
Hundreds killed, thousands injured
Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer promises to end organized crime in the US

12. The Red Scare
Attorney General Palmer began a series of attacks against communists and radicals (Palmer Raids)
About 10,000 radicals jailed (without cause)
Building were ransacked, records were seized, and people began to snitch on their neighbors
Immigrants especially targeted in Palmer’s raids
Immigration limited by law
ACLU formed to “protect the rights of individuals”

13. Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco

14. Sacco and Vanzetti
Post-war tensions + labor unrest + anti-immigrant feelings = Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Sacco and Vanzetti accused of robbing payroll and killing guard
They had alibis and witnesses that said they didn’t do it
There was a gang of payroll thieves in operation in the area
Prosecution witnesses could not positively identify them
Sacco and Vanzetti were immigrants and admitted anarchists
Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty, and executed in electric chair

16. Rising Intolerance
Nativism = dislike of foreigners by native born Americans
The nativism of the early 1900s (plus the unrest after the war) led to the rise of the “new” KKK
The new Klan claimed to be a patriotic organization
Not anti-black; now pro-American
“Hidden enemies” would lead to America’s downfall
Blacks, Catholics, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals, “wild women,” the Pope, Franklin Roosevelt
About 4 million members in 1924

20. Intolerance Leads to Violence
As the Klan gathered support, violence broke out across the nation
1919 saw 20 major racial disturbances
1920 saw 53 blacks and 8 whites lynched
Victims captured
“surgery below the belt”
Hanged or burned
Then shot

21. Fun Time!

22. Verbage What does “swipe left” mean? What does “selfie” mean?
What does “text” mean?
What does “tweet” mean?
What are “kicks”?
What’s a “snap”?
These words are all in our everyday vocabulary!

23. Keen Talk in a Swanky Age
You will pick 10 different terms out of this grab bag
Each of the terms are listed, followed by a definition
Use all 10 words correctly in a letter/story/conversation/etc. on the lines on the back of the worksheet
Pretend like your grandmothers are reading this! (Keep it PG-13).