C H A P T E R 2 0 S E C T I O N 1

AMERICA STRUGGLES WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

DO NOW:

• Should there ever be a time when Americans lose their rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights?

• Freedom of Speech, Religion• Right to bare arms• Trial by Jury

WHAT ISSUES DID AMERICA FACE AFTER WWI?

• Soldiers faced unemployment

• Took jobs from women and minorities

• Cost of living doubled

• Farmers and factory workers suffered as wartime orders diminished

ISOLATIONISM AND NATIVISM

• Nativism- Prejudice against foreign-born people• Why did it sweep the nation?

• Isolationism- policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs

GREATEST FEAR WAS COMMUNISM

• 1919- Lenin established communism in Russia

• Called out to end all capitalism

• Communist Party had over 70,000 members in the US

• Led to the Red Scare

RED SCARE AFFECTS MANY

• The Palmer Raids- hunted down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists

• Invaded private homes and offices- jailed people without lawyers- deported thousands

PHILOSOPHICAL CHAIR: THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALWAYS

LISTEN TO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE?

• Should there ever be an exception?

ANTI-IMMIGRANT FEELINGS GROW

• Ku Klux Klan- 4.5 million members by 1924

• Opposed blacks, Roman Catholics, Jews, and all foreign born people

CONGRESS TAKES ACTION AGAINST IMMIGRANTS

• Emergency Quota Act of 1921

• Limited immigrants to 2% of its nationals living in the US in 1890

• Targeted eastern and southern Europe

• Prohibited the Japanese