Roaring Twenties: Red Scare,
Nativism and Labor Strife
Chapter 12-1
U.S. History of Treatment of UnAmerican /Minority People
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Catholics
Mormons
African-Americans/slaves
Native Americans
New Immigrants
Asian Immigrants
TR s Un-civilized
End of WWI: anarchists, communists
Nativism
•  Nativism:
•  Grows in the aftermath of
______________________________
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Russian Revolution
(1917-1919)
•  Bolsheviks:
•  Bolsheviks
announced
________________
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•  ________________
_ spread to other
countries in Europe
•  In U.S.:
______________
Capitalism v. Communism
•  ____________ownership of
means of production/
business
•  _____________ over
________________
•  Competition= ________
•  _______________ over
____________________
–  Individuals have _________
–  ______________________
form of gov t
•  _____________controls
means of production/
business
•  _______________ over
__________________
•  Equalize wealth/power=
___________________
•  ________ comes before
_____________
–  ____________ civil rights
–  __________ government
A. Mitchell Palmer
•  1919: Several mail
bombs in U.S.
•  Attorney
___________________
organized special antiradical division in
Justice Dept. to break
up _______________
•  __________________
led this group.
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Palmer Raids
•  Raided offices and
homes of suspected
___________________
___________________
–  Rarely had __________
–  Jailed without ________
–  Hundreds ___________
•  Failed to find evidence
of communist take-over
•  Fueled the
__________________
of the 1920s
Sacco and Vanzetti
•  Italian______________
accused of murder in
1920
•  Found guilty based on
questionable evidence
•  Protests:
•  __________________
in 1927
•  Martyrs for radicals
•  __________________
in 1977
Immigration Trends
•  Between 1919-1921, number of
immigrants had grown from _______ to
_________________ per year
–  Number of factory jobs ____________ due
to end of World War I
–  Contributed to growing _______________
•  Congress passes a number of laws
trying to limit ____________ to the U.S.
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Immigration Trends Before
1920
Anti-Immigrant Actions
•  1921: __________________________
–  Set up a quota (maximum number of
people) who could enter the U.S. from a
foreign country
•  Quota was ___% of that country s population in
the U.S. in 1910.
Immigration Act of 1924
•  Cut quota to ___% of that country s
population in U.S. in ___________
–  Dramatically cut people coming from
_____________________________________
(The New Immigrants of Gilded Age who had
come by the millions after 1890)
–  Also area of large number of
______________________________________
•  Total number of immigrants entering U.S. was
_________________ a year
•  Japanese immigration _________________
•  By 1930s:
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1921 to 1924 Effect
•  Darker shades = more people immigrating
Ku Klux Klan
•  ___________ members
by 1920, 4.5 million by
1925
•  100 percent
__________________
•  Small towns and rural
areas in South
•  Mid-20s: _____ live in
urban areas
•  Strongest in _________
class neighborhoods
Post-war Working Class
Issues
•  Wartime ____________ cut
spending power
•  Workers not allowed to strike
during _________________
•  1919: ___________ workers
participated in _____ strikes
•  Workers demand
_______________________
_______________________
•  Some __________ in unions
•  _____________ blamed for
strikes--businesses try to
break unions
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Labor
•  Government in 1920s was _______________
–  Friend of corporations once again
–  Anti-trust laws were relaxed
•  Union membership down by ___________%
•  Businesses of 1920s resembling
__________________ again
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