1. Ch.13 A Turbulent Decade WEDS: 1/22- Goals Discuss the economic conditions after the war. Explain the reaction to the new immigration.

2. Postwar Troubles Demobilization Shift from Wartime to peacetime Rapid after WWI – 4 million soldiers returned to civilian life in a year Women had to relinquish jobs Inflation skyrocketed (spending spree caused demand to outpace supply)

3. 1920-1921 Recession $2 billion in war contracts cancelled 10%+ of labor force unemployed Farm Crisis Prices fell Debt causes problems Sound familiar?

4. Labor Strife Management ignored labor demands 1919- 3600 strikes – 4 million workers Seattle General Strike (Feb. 1919)- YOUTUBE VIDEO CLIP Shipyard workers demanded higher pay and shorter workdays 110 other unions joined 60K workers walked off jobs Mayor blamed on bolsheviks and summoned police

6. Seattle Labor Strike Strike ended after 5 days No demands met Negative publicity for labor unions

7. Other Strikes…. Boston Police Strike – unsuccessful The Steel Strike – 365 K workers walked off jobs – labeled immigrants as non- loyal Americans Brought in AAs and Mex-Ams to work Unsuccessful

8. THE RED SCARE Anti-communist hysteria The Palmer Raids 1919- 36 bombs found in US mail Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s house bombed by an Italian anarchist Palmer launched an anti-Red crusade J. Edgar Hoover put in charge Raids arrested thousands – most immigrants

11. Emma Goldman – jailed in 1917 for opposing draft Author of Mother Earth 1919- deported to Russia

12. Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti tried for a payroll robbery and murder in Boston Convicted and sentenced to death Outcry –belief that they were found guilty due to their anarchist beliefs International appeal Aug. 23, 1927 – electrocuted

15. Upton Sinclair and Boston On August 23, 1977 Governor Dukakis issued proclamation that said that they had been treated unjustly and "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names."

16. Closure What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case reveal about America in the 1920s?