ch.13 a turbulent decade weds: 1/22- goals discuss the economic conditions after the war. explain...
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Ch.13 A Turbulent Decade
WEDS: 1/22- GoalsDiscuss the economic conditions after the war.Explain the reaction to the new immigration.
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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)
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1920-1921 Recession
• $2 billion in war contracts cancelled
• 10%+ of labor force unemployed
• Farm Crisis
• Prices fell
• Debt causes problems
• Sound familiar?
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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
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Seattle Labor Strike
• Strike ended after 5 days
• No demands met
• Negative publicity for labor unions
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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
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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
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• Emma Goldman – jailed in 1917 for opposing draft
• Author of Mother Earth
• 1919- deported to Russia
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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
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• 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."
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Closure
•What did the Sacco and Vanzetti case reveal about America in the 1920s?