WERE THE TWENTIES ROARING

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WERE THE TWENTIES ROARING ?
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Postwar Struggles

• A desire for normality after the war and a fear
  of communism and foreigners lead to postwar
  isolationism.
• Post war trends Rapid inflation when the
  government removed controls cost of living
  doubles.
• Soldiers take jobs from women, minorities,
  farmers and factory workers suffer

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AMERICANS STRUGGLE WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

• Increase in Nativism
• Isolationism
• Fear of Communism
• Limiting Immigration
• Rise of the Klan
• Labor Unrest
• Political Changes

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American Struggles

• ___________ prejudice against foreign-born
  people
• _____________ policy of pulling away from
  involvement in world affairs
• Immigration _quota system_ established the
  maximum number of people who could enter the U.S.
  from each foreign country

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Fear of Communism The __________

• ___________ economic political system,
  single-party government
• ruled by _________
• no __________ property
• 1919 Vladimir _________, Bolsheviks, set up
  Communist state in Russia
• __________ mailed to government, businesses
  people fear _________conspiracy

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American Fear

• General ____________________takes action
• Palmer Raids Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover hunt
  down _____________, socialists, ___________,
• Anarchists oppose any form of ______________
• trampled peoples civil rights,
• hunted down ________, socialists,
  ________________.
• fail to find evidence of conspiracy

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Sacco and Vanzetti

• Red Scare feeds fear of __________, ruins
  reputations, wrecks lives
• Sacco Vanzetti Italian __________,
  _____________, arrested.
• Tried for ___________, trial does not prove
  guilt. Sentenced to death on circumstantial
  evidence because they were foreign. Cause
  __________ around the world
• Sacco, Vanzetti executed in 1927

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Return of the Klan

• Bigots use anti-communism to harass groups unlike
  themselves
• KKK opposes blacks, ___________, Jews,
  _____________, unions, saloons
• 1924 _____million members
• Klan controls many states _________ violence
  leads to _______ power
• Dominated state politics in many states
• Its criminal activities brought its downfall by
  the end of the decade

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Limiting Immigration

• The Quota system
• 1919-1921, number of immigrants grows almost
  __________
• Quota system sets _____________ number can enter
  U.S. from each country
• Sharply reduces ________________ immigration
• 1924, European arrivals cut to ________of number
  of residents in 1890discriminates against
  southern, _____________Europeans
• Prohibits _____________ immigration
• Does not apply to _____________ Hemisphere

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Labor Problems

• Postwar labor issues Government doesnt allow
  __________ in wartime 1919 over 3,000 strikes
• Employers against __________, unions label
  strikers as ______________
• ____________ Police Strike Strike over raises,
  right to _____________.
• ______________ends strike, replaces strikers with
  new ____________. All strikers were fired
  replaced.

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Trade Union Strike

• ______________Strike 1919 steel workers strike
• desired a ____________ wanted to form a union.
  Companies use force, later _______________
• Talks _____________ Wilson appeals strike ends
• 1923 report on conditions leads to
  ___________

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Coal Miners Strike

• 1919 __________________becomes head of United
  Mine Workers of America
• Leads strike defies court order to _____
  accepts ____________
• Miners receive _____________increase Lewis
  becomes national hero
• Labor movement loses appeal membership drops
  from over 5 million to __________
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Warren G. HardingReturn to Normalcy1921-1923
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Hardings Administration

• Fordney-McCumber Tariff Raised taxes on imports
  to 60
• Teapot Dome Scandal Albert B. Fall Secretary of
  the Interior, illegally leased government land to
  oil companies. He was bribed more than 400,000
  dollar and became the first cabinet member to be
  convicted of a felony while in office

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Harding

• Died in office on Aug 2, 1923 the crimes of his
  administration came to light after he died and
  Calvin Coolidge was president

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J. Calvin Coolidge Jr.Keep Cool and Keep
Coolidge1923-1929
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Coolidge Administration

• Kellogg-Briand Pact renounced war as an
  instrument of national policy in relations with
  one another.
• Immigration Act of 1924 Limited the number of
  immigrants into the U.S and completely restricted
  Asian immigrants from entering the country
• Laissez-faire economic style of little
  government involvement