Understanding Postwar Tensions
Vocabulary
Sacco and Vanzetti trial:
Red Scare:
Palmer Raids:
quota system:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU):
Back-to-Africa movement:
Anti-Defamation League (ADL):
Read about the upcoming clemency hearing in Section 1 and write three important facts about the Sacco and Vanzetti
case..
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For each section, write a cause of the postwar tension in the left column.. List three effects of the postwar tension in the
right hand column.
2. Emerging Economic Tensions
Cause
Effects
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3. Rising Labor Tensions
Cause
Effects
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4. Growing Political Tensions
Cause
Effects
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5. Increasing Social Tensions
Causes
Effects
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In the T-chart, add at least one fact from each section that could help or hurt Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s
chances for clemency.
Facts that help Sacc’s and Vanzetti’s Chances for
Clemency
Facts that hurt Sacc’s and Vanzetti’s Chances for
Clemency
6. Enduring Racial and Religious Tensions
Cause
Effects
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On the back of the next page, write a paragraph to submit to Governor Alvan Fuller and the Lowell Committee. Choose one founding ideal and describe whether it was advanced or restricted during the postwar period. Explain how the advancement or restriction of this ideal may have helped or hurt Sacco and Vanzetti in their trial. Your paragraph should include • a clear thesis that states your position. • two pieces of evidence that support your topic sentence. • an explanation of how each piece of evidence supports your topic sentence. America’s Founding Ideals equality, rights, l iberty, opportunity, democracy
Lesson 27 – Politics of Normalcy
Vocabulary:
normalcy
free enterprise system
Teapot Dome Scandal
isolationism
Washington Naval Conference
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Dawes Plan
Florida Land Boom
Dow Jones Industrial Average
1.On two pages in your notebook, write the section numbers and titles for Sections 2 to 4. Place Section 2 at the top of the
first page and Section 3 about halfway down on that same page. Then, place Section 4 at the top of the second page.
2. Under each section title, draw a T-chart with the left column labeled “Contributed to Peace and Prosperity” and the
right labeled “Did Not
Contribute to Peace and Prosperity.”
3. Read Section 2. In the T-chart for that section, note two items that contributed to peace and prosperity and two items
that did not. Use complete sentences
to explain the effect of these items on Americans.
4. Repeat Step 3 for Sections 3 and 4.
Draw a political cartoon expressing your point of view on the following question: Did the Republican Era of the 1920s
bring peace and prosperity to all Americans?