1. How was the 1920s a decade of contradicitions?

2. Rise of Americanism
Aim: How did many Americans react to the presence of foreigners and foreign ideas in the 1920’s?

3. “I believe we should place them (the reds) all on a ship of stone, with sails of lead, and that their first stopping place be hell.”
Author/Soldier Guy Empey applauding the “deportation delirium”

4. I. View of Foreigners after WWI
Reactionary Time Period:
Real and Imagined Threats!
Russian Revolution
Sedition Act of 1918
Used to monitor radicals, labor unions

5. 1919 Anarchist Bombings

7. II. Reaction – Palmer Raids
Precursor to the FBI – J. Edgar Hoover
1. Identify radicals “prone” to violence.
Raids and Mass Arrests
1. Russian People’s House – beat with clubs by police
2. Algebra Class – teacher beaten, ordered to give money, arrested

9. 3. Homes searched without warrants
men held 5 months w/o charges and no lawyer allowed
radicals deported
6. Raids in 33 cities – 3,000 people arrested etc……..

10. C. Sacco and Vanzetti Anti-Foreignism Italian, radical, draft dodgers
Accused of robbing a paymaster and killing him

11. D. Public Reaction and Court Decision
Judge biased towards defendents
Guilty – death penalty
International Outcry

12. E. ACLU 1920 – Created as direct result of Palmer Raids
1st Action – challenge the Sedition Act
Took cases defending immigrants, workers and political radicals

13. F. Downfall of Palmer Criticized heavily for lack of due process.
Sec of Labor Louis F. Post- found over 1,500 deportations of innocent people
Palmer claimed an armed Communist Uprising on May 1, 1920 – never happened

14. III. Second Rising of the KKK
“An extremist, ultraconservative, uprising against forces of diversity and modernity transforming American culture.”

17. III. Anti-Immigration Fervor

18. A. Reasons for anti-immigration

19. B. Government Response to Anti- immigrant sentiment
Literacy Tests-1917
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
National Origins Act of 1924

20. Are we going through a “Third Red Scare”?
Methodist Church upholds ban on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy, faces likely surge in defections
Some supporters of greater LGBT inclusion were in tears, while others vented their anger after delegates, on a vote