1. America Struggles with Postwar Issues
Chapter 20 Section 1

2. Do Now:
Should there ever be a time when Americans lose their rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?
Freedom of Speech, Religion
Right to bare arms
Trial by Jury

3. What issues did America Face after WWI?
Soldiers faced unemployment
Took jobs from women and minorities
Cost of living doubled
Farmers and factory workers suffered as wartime orders diminished

4. Isolationism and Nativism
Nativism- Prejudice against foreign-born people
Why did it sweep the nation?
Isolationism- policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

5. Greatest fear was Communism
1919- Lenin established communism in Russia
Called out to end all capitalism
Communist Party had over 70,000 members in the US
Led to the Red Scare

6. Red Scare affects many
The Palmer Raids- hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists
Invaded private homes and offices- jailed people without lawyers- deported thousands

7. Philosophical Chair: The government should always listen to the majority of the people?
Should there ever be an exception?

8. Anti-immigrant feelings grow
Ku Klux Klan- 4.5 million members by 1924
Opposed blacks, Roman Catholics, Jews, and all foreign born people

10. Congress takes action against immigrants
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Limited immigrants to 2% of its nationals living in the US in 1890
Targeted eastern and southern Europe
Prohibited the Japanese