history alive! chapter 26 understanding postwar tensions
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History Alive! Chapter 26 Understanding Postwar Tensions. Demobilization: The transition from wartime to peacetime Government officials canceled contracts causing many factories to close Crop prices fell due to lack of overseas demand - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
History Alive!Chapter 26
Understanding Postwar Tensions
26.2: Emerging Economic Tensions
Demobilization:• The transition from wartime to peacetime• Government officials
canceled contracts causing many factories to close
• Crop prices fell due to lack of overseas demand
• Millions of people are unemployed including returning soldiers
Recession:•A decline in in economic activity and prosperity
•Workers begin to organize into labor unions following WWI•Union organizations take different stances on workers rights
•American Federation of Labor (AFL) only represented the skilled laborers
•Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members known as “Wobblies” wanted saw Socialism as the solution to workers problems
•Unions eventually lose public support and membership. Why? Page 335
26.3 Rising Labor Tensions
Radicalism: a point of view favoring extreme change especially in social or economic structures
I’m Karl Marx I came up with the theory of communism which
calls for public ownership of the
means of production resulting in a classless
society
Anarchists: oppose all systems of government. They want a society based on freedom, mutual respect, and cooperation
Socialism: Called for public ownership of the means of production including land and factories.
26.4 Growing Political Tensions
Red Scare •Postwar paranoia (fear) of radicals•Red was slang for communist
“subversives”
•People who sought to overthrow the government
•Palmer Raids: warrantless raids searching for weapons and taking records without permission
Civil liberties
•Basic rights guaranteed by law•Fearful Americans passed sedition laws which
made stirring opposition to the government a crime
Red Scare, subversives, and civil liberties
Cap the number of
people allowed into the United
states
Reduce the number of immigrants allowed into the United
StatesQuota
System!
•Congress responded to anti-immigrant pressure by passing the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 and eventually the Immigration Act of 1924.
•Introduced a quota system which limited the number of immigrants from each country.
26.5: Increasing Social Tensions
Ku Klux Klan and the ACLUThe Ku Klux Klan made a resurgence during the 1920’s as defenders of traditional Americanism.
Targeted African Americans, immigrants, Jews, Catholics, and anyone viewed as “un-American”.
Used whippings, kidnappings, cross burnings, arson, and murder to terrorize communities
Specialized in the defense of unpopular individuals and groups. (political, immigrants, unions)
26.6 Enduring Racial and Religious tensions
Back-to-Africa Movement attracted up to 2 million followers and lots of money for business.
Our success educationally, industrially, and politically is based upon the protection of a
nation founded by ourselves.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)Stop the defamation (false-accusation) of the Jewish people
Catholics were also targets of religious prejudice.Many people were concerned that the Catholic Pope would be running the country
What effect did postwar tensions have on America’s founding ideals?
• Equality
• Rights
• Liberty
• Opportunity
• Democracy