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Postwar US- Decline of LaborUnions

Labor strife reestablished due toworkers wanting their wartimebenefits and soaring prices

1919- 4 million strikers causing$2 billion in lost sales and wages

Violence and death results in a

government crackdown on laborunions


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Postwar US- Urban Riots

Increased racial tension

White on black violence

increased dramatically after thewar

1919- more than 25 race riots

throughout the nation


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Postwar US- Anarchists

Anarchy- the belief in theabsence of government

Anarchists began to use bombsto achieve their goals ofeliminating the government


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Postwar US- Anarchists Terrorist bomb threats and attacks increased Seattle mayor received a mail bomb after he

broke up a strike

Georgia senator received a mail bomb that

blew the hands off of his maid 36 more mail bombs were found by the postal

service before being delivered

Bomb exploded at Attorney General Palmers

house killing the person carrying the bomb 38 killed by a bomb blast in New Yorks

financial district (Wall Street)


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Postwar US- The Red Scare

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmerblamed the Bolsheviks (Communists) forthe chaos

Resulted in the Red Scare (Fear of Reds aka Communists)

Thousands were arrested and imprisoned

Others were loaded on boats and shipped

back to their home countries

Turned into a general fear of foreigners


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Postwar US- Fear ofForeigners Immigration Restriction League influenced the

federal government to establish stricterimmigration laws

National quotas were established andimmigration was drastically reduced

National Origins Act

Greatly reduced the numbers of Asian andSoutheast European immigrants


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Postwar US- The New Klan Reestablishment of the Ku Klux Klan

Used violence to suppress the rights ofblacks, Jews, Catholics, and foreigners

Many law enforcement officials joined thesecretive society and their crimes wentunchecked

Murder case involving a high ranking

Klansman brought the beginning of the end ofthe new Klan


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Postwar US- Sacco andVanzetti

Italian-born immigrants arrested and triedfor murder

Anti-foreigner sentiment was at an all-time

high Believed to be innocent, but charged

because of anarchist beliefs

Both men were executed and became

martyrs for all immigrants of the timeperiod


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Postwar US- Journalism

Writers aimed sharp criticism againsttheir time period in some of the bestAmerican literature ever

H.L. Mencken, T.S. Eliot, SinclairLewis, Sherwood Anderson, F. ScottFitzgerald, William Faulkner, and

Ernest Hemingway


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Postwar US- Prohibition EraBegins

Passage of the 18th amendment outlawedalcohol

Supported by the Womens Christian

Temperance Union (WCTU) among others Led to a black market for alcohol and the

rise of gangsters in the US

Federal Bureau of Investigation was

created to crackdown on alcohol relatedcrimes


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Postwar US- Womens Suffrage

Passage of the 19thamendment allowed women

to vote in federal electionsSupported by womens civil

rights movements and

President Wilson

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