1. The War’s Impact: 1919 Warm-Up
1.) What was life in America like during the
war? (Men, Women, Immigrants,
Blacks/Minorities) Provide
examples.
2.) What is a recession? What is inflation?
Warm-Up

3. Issues the Nation will face:
The War’s Impact: 1919
Issues the Nation will face:
1.) Economic Conflict
2.) Social Conflict
3.) Political Conflict

4. What happens when the ration ends?
The War’s Impact: 1919
1.) Econoic Conflict:
Post-War = The US must shift from war production back to peace-time production…
During War = rationing (Food Admin)
What happens when the ration ends?

5. The War’s Impact: 1919 A: People run out and buy stuff!
Let’s start with why this is bad 
demand ____ supply ____ prices ____ = inflation
Inflation causes the cost of living to go up = basic needs are more expensive
ex: housing, heat, electricity.

6. The War’s Impact: 1919 strike
demand ____ supply ____ prices ____ = inflation
How does this effect companies and workers?
In order to meet demand:
companies' costs _____ = wages _______
workers _________!
strike

7. The War’s Impact: 1919 Examples of Economic Conflict:
A) Seattle General Strike
general strike = invloves all workers in a certain area, not just one industry
B) The Steel Strike
One of the largest in U.S. history

8. The War’s Impact: 1919 Examples of Economic Conflict:
Boston Police Strike
75% of police walked out
Gov. Calvin Coolidge sent in National Guard
Strikers try to come back = fired
Coolidge = “there is no right to strike against the public safety…”

9. Look at what Coolidge did…sort of sounds like…??

10. POP QUIZ! 1.) Explain why prices of goods increased following the war?
2.) Define inflation.
3.) What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused of?
4.) Why is A. Mitchell Palmer historically significant?
5.) What does nativism mean?
In complete
Sentences

11. The War’s Impact: WHY are people Hating on immigrants & Minorities?
2.) Social Conflict:
Increased feelings of Nativism = hostility towards immigrants
WHY are people
Hating on immigrants
& Minorities?

12. The War’s Impact: 1919 Racism & cultural tensions Lead to…
economic recession
(increased demand/
no jobs)
Racism
& cultural
tensions
increased immigration,
mostly from southern
and eastern
Europe
Lead to…
4 million veteran troops
without jobs

14. “We can’t digest the scum”
About 3,060,151 immigrants came to the USA from communist Russia

15. The Red Scare

16. The War’s Impact: Is this a rational fear?
1919 = Soviet Union (Russia) forms Communist International = main goal is to coordinate communist parties in other nations

17. The War’s Impact: Example of Social Conflict:
A.) The Red Scare & The Palmer Raids:
Who did Palmer believe was
a threat to US gov?
Were Palmer’s Actions
justified?
Could this ever happen now?
Communists!
Deported 600 people,
most without a trial.

19. The War’s Impact: Example of Social Conflict:
B.) The Sacco & Vanzetti Trial (1921)
Who were Sacco & Vanzetti?
Do you believe the trial
was fair?
Why/Why not?
Italian Immigrants
(Braintree, MA)
There was Reasonable
Doubt

21. The War’s Impact: Example of Social Conflict: C.) Eugenics
What is Eugenics?
Who supported the idea of Eugenics?
Pseudo-Science (false science)
that deals with
improving hereditary traits
Purpose = stop breeding “inferior” humans!

22. Woodrow Wilson
Issue with this?

23. The War’s Impact: 1919 Example of Social Conflict: D.) Ku Klux Klan
Who do they target?
1920s Klan = disliked anyone who wasn’t
white and Protestant = they called this “Americanism”
= so much nativism that
4 million new members joined.

24. The War’s Impact: With so many nativist feelings… what is a government
Example of Social Conflict:
Two New Immigration laws:
A.) Emergency Quota Act: only 3% more let in
(1910 census)
B.) The National Origins Act 1924: permanent restrictions and only 2% more let in (1890 census)
With so many
nativist feelings…
what is a government
to do??

25. The War’s Impact NO! 3.) Political Conflict:
After all this change & chaos, does America still want Progressive Politics?
NO!

26. What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
The War’s Impact
What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
1.) Economic Conflict (inflation leads to strikes)
- 3 Examples:
A) Seattle Strike
B) Steel Strike
C) Boston Police Strike

27. What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
The War’s Impact
What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
2.) Social Conflicts (econ issues combined with increased immigrations = racial conflict)
- 4 Examples:
A) Red Scare/Palmer Raids
B) Sacco & Vanzetti Trial
C) Eugenics
D) Increased KKK membership
Plus the two new
Laws that
were passed

28. What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
The War’s Impact
What you should have for the POST-WAR Section
3.) Politcal Conflicts = Progressivism is on hold.