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World War One I.Introduction II.World War and American Society A.War B.Social Impact C.Divisions D.Dissent III.Closing Ranks A.Carrot B.Stick IV.Post-war Reaction A.Red Scare B.Crushing Strikes C.Race Riots V.The Emergence of Civil Liberties
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War Central Powers –Germany, Austria, Ottomans Allies –UK, France, Russia, Italy
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Social Impact Married women enter workforce 1910-20: 500,000 African- Americans leave the South for Northern cities
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Divisions Immigrants –Total US Pop-- 91M –Germany-- 8.3 M –Aus-Hun-- 2.7 M –Ireland-- 4.5 M African-Ams –9.7M people Farmers –William J. Bryan Pacifists –Jane Addams
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Radicals Socialists –Eugene Debs Communists –William Z. Foster Anarchists –Emma Goldman Syndicalists –Industrial Workers of the World
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Strike Wave 6,000 strikes More than 1M workers go on strike every year Unions double between 1914 and 1920 Women stage food riots over high prices
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Closing Ranks Persuasion –Worker Protections Clayton Act Pressure –Propaganda Committee for Public Information (CPI) –Bond Drives –Americanization –Vigilantism –Censorship
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The Red Scare Palmer House Bombed
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The Red Scare Palmer raids –6,000 detained –300 deported Surveillance –General Intelligence Division formed, 1918 –Bureau of Investigation formed. 1921 Emma Goldman Ethel Bernstein Peter Blaski Alex. Berkman Radicals deported to Russia from the United States J. Edgar Hoover
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The Great Steel Strike William Z. Foster <= Chicago Steel Workers
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Race Riots Chicago –Causes Jobs, housing, prejudice –Toll 38 (23 b, 15 w) dead 537 injured 1,000 black families homeless
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Tulsa, 1921 300 deaths 800 injuries 6,000 held 35 city blocks burned
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Civil Liberties Abrams defendants Holmes, Brandeis, Roger Baldwin
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