1. The 1920s
I can identify the characteristics of social conflict and social change that took place in the early 1920s

2. Specifics What were the causes and effects of the first Red Scare?
How did labor strife grow during the postwar years?
How did the United States limit immigration after WWI?

3. The First Red Scare
1917- The Rise of the Bolsheviks (the bigger of the two communist groups vying for power. The other was the Mensheviks)
Headed by Vladimir Lenin
1922 – The Soviet Union is formed
Communism is officially in control of a large nation

4. What is Communism?
Why is this economic system so bad that we actually “fear” it?
What are its principles and beliefs?
If that is what people choose how could it be bad for America?

5. Why is this idea threatening? It’s just a party.

6. Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

8. Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.

9. Communism (in theory)
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

10. Communism (in reality)
You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for your share of the milk, but it's so long that the milk is sour by the time you get it.

11. Russian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

13. American Reaction to Communism
Feared the overthrow of capitalism (what are capitalism’s values)
Fear of violent revolution
Shift in American thought from “fear the Hun” to “fear the Red”
Communist parties began to form
Bombs were mailed to some individuals

15. Palmer Raids
A. Mitchell Palmer
Targeted Aliens
Goal was Deportation

17. Who are we “scared” of today?
Why?

19. Labor Strife In 1919 4 million workers too part in 3,000 strikes
And in almost every case labor lost

20. Why the postwar difficulties?

21. Why the postwar difficulties?
Wartime prosperity was gone
Sinking demand for war goods
Wilson focused on the peace plan
Returning soldiers expected their jobs back
Red Scare connection with labor

23. Nativism and Racism

24. Limiting Immigration Backlash against foreigners in the postwar era
Competition for scare jobs
Red Scare
Increase in nativism
All these combined with the ill feelings left after WWI helped create a push for immigration reform

26. The National Origins Act of 1924
Only 2% of that nation’s representation in America using 1890 as the base year

28. Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Italian immigrants and anarchists
Accused of robbery and murder
Evidence was weak

30. Conflicts over Values
The shift from a mostly rural America to an urban one was highly significant
Rural had meant traditional hard-working, self-reliant, religious (Protestant), and independent
There was a reaction to the changes
Immigration reform was one
The others. . .

31. Rebirth of the KKK Why? For Native, White, Protestant Supremacy
Millions signed up

32. Rise of Fundamentalism
Literal interpretation of the Bible and the teaching of evolution
Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton, TN
Clarence Darrow v. William Jennings Bryan

33. Prohibition