1. Topic 6c – Post WWI

2. The Fear!
The Red Scare
Fear from the potential rise of communism in America.
Fear communism would overthrow capitalism/democracy.
WWI propaganda made Americans hate Germans, which transferred to foreigners after the war.

3. The Fear! Communism is the opposite of capitalism.
Stresses the commune rather than the individual.
The Palmer Raids 1919 (!)
Deportation of Russian immigrants
Arrested people suspected of communist ties without warrant
Tortured suspects
Mostly supported by Americans

4. A. Mitchell Palmer

5. Racial Unrest 1916-1920 African Americans leave the South
Seek better life, higher wages in the North
Causes race riots (1917)
Mass migration forms bonds between common people
Higher pay in the North builds more economic stability
Better economic stability leads to cultural and social advancements
Eventually leads to the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement

6. The end of the Progressives
Final Achievements
Prohibition
Ban on alcohol
Wanted to improve morals in U.S.
Supporters argued the grain could help soldiers in WWI
Supporters argued it would reduce poverty and crime.
Suffrage
The right to vote
19th Amendment, 1920
Gives women the right to vote
Death of Progressivism
Couldn’t protect children in the workforce
Supreme Court kept overruling legislation
Couldn’t help working women
Same reason.
A new direction
Progressive fears
The new massive violent strikes
Radicals
Communists/Socialists
Eventually joined with business and didn’t fight for change through the government.

7. Into the 1920s World War I turned America in a different direction
Gains
Women Suffrage
Prohibition (would you consider this a gain?)
A future, even stronger, consumer society
Economic and social gains for African Americans
Failures
The Red Scare
Emergence of violent radicals
Racial tension
Death of the progressive movement