1. POST WORLD WAR I KEY ISSUES

2. POSTWAR TRENDS AMERICANS EXHAUSTED
DEBATE OVER LEAGUE OF NATIONS DIVIDES AMERICA
PROGRESSIVE ERA BROUGHT MANY CHANGES
ECONOMY IN STATE OF ADJUSTMENT
COST OF LIVING DOUBLED
FARMERS AND FACTORY WORKERS SUFFER

3. ISOLATIONISM AND NATIVISM PREVAIL
ISOLATIONISM – THE U.S. PULLS AWAY FROM INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD AFFAIRS
NATIVISM – PREJUDICE AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN PEOPLE SWEEPS THE NATION

4. THE RED SCARE
BOLSHEVIKS UNDER LENIN CREATE COMMUNIST STATE IN RUSSIA – 1917
COMMUNIST PARTY FORMS IN U.S.
RADICALS AND I.W.W. MEMBERS JOIN
MAIL BOMBS SENT!!
ANARCHIST BOMBING
OF WALL STREET

5. ATTORNEY GENERAL A. MITCHELL PALMER RESPONDS!

6. ‘PALMER RAIDS’ VIOLATE CIVIL LIBERTIES AND UNCOVER LITTLE EVIDENCE.

7. SACCO AND VANZETTI
ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS AND ANARCHISTS FOUND GUILTY OF ROBBERY AND MURDER
MUCH GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR THEIR EXONERATION

8. IMMIGRATION LIMITED SLOGAN: “KEEP AMERICA FOR AMERICANS”
EMERGENCY QUOTA ACT OF 1921
QUOTA SYSTEM – ESTABLISHES MAX NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO COULD ENTER THE U.S.
DISCRIMINATED AGAINST PEOPLE FROM EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EUROPE
JAPANESE IMMIGRATION PROHIBITED

9. RISE OF KU KLUX KLAN INCREASED MEMBERSHIP
AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS, UNIONS, ROMAN CATHOLICS, JEWS, AND FOREIGN-BORN PEOPLE

10. LABOR UNREST 1919 – MORE THAN 3,000 STRIKES BOSTON POLICE STRIKE
STEEL MILL STRIKE
COAL MINER STRIKE
JOHN L. LEWIS

11. DECLINE OF LABOR UNIONS
WHY??
IMMIGRANTS WILLING TO WORK IN POOR CONDITIONS
ORGANIZING DIFFICULT (SO MANY LANGUAGES)
FORMER FARMERS WORKING IN FACTORIES SELF-RELIANT
UNIONS EXCLUDED AFRICAN-AMERICANS