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Chapter 12 Section 1
Americans struggle with postwar issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Irving Fajans? | A sotre sales clerk in New York City who tried to get fellow workers to join the Department Store Employees Union. |
| What were worker's rights like after the war? | They didnt have any, and they held strikes. the public wanted peace and resented the strikers who causd unrest |
| What feelings were caused by the war? Why? | Feelings of nativism agaisnt foreign borns, isolationism from Europe. People were tired from the war. Jobs were hard to find and the economy wasnt in good shape |
| What was the Red Scare? | After the communist overthrew czarist Russia, the called for a worldwide communist movement. Communist groups formed in the US sent bombs to government officials, and people were scared we were going to turn communist |
| What were the Palmer raids? | Palmer, and Hoover searched houses, violating peoples rights, jailing suspects, and deporting foreigners thinking they were communists, socialists, or anarchists. The public quickly turned against Palmer. |
| Who were Sacco and Vanzetti? | Italian radicals who were blamed for the shooting of factory paymaster and a guard. Although there was no real evidence besides "the murderers looked Italian", they both had alibies, they were sentenced to death in the electric chair, outraging many. |
| What did nativists believe? | America should only be for Americans, theres less jobs for unskilled workers, so we should have less immigrants, they were tainting America |
| What was the KKK? | Ku Klux Klan used anti-communism as an excuse to harass anyone who was not a white American-born male. They held secret rituals and commited acts of racial violence. They held political power in many states for a period of time. |
| What was the Emergency Quota Act? | Set up a quota system, limiting the amount of immigrants from each country who could come into the nation and banning Japanese. The allowed number was 2% of the number of a countries people who were already living in the US. The system achieved its goal. |
| What were strinking labor unions falsely accused of? | Management would tell newspapers the unions were really communists who were planning a revolution |
| What was the Bostone police strike? | Boston police had a strike for higher wages (they hadnt been raised since before WWI) Calvin Coolidge sent in the national guard and all the "communist" policemen were soon fired and replaced. |
| What was the steel mill strike? | Steel Workers had a strike for shorter workdays, strikers were beaten by all sorts of armymen and accused of communism. Eventually they won an 8 hour workday but they had to dissolve their union. |
| What was the coal miner strike? | Led by John Lewis, it struck for shorter days and higher wages. They won a wage increase after defying Attorney General Palmer's Act to have them stop striking |
| What were three main reasons for the fall in Labor Union appeal? | 1. Immigrants didnt mind long hours and low pay and they didnt know english so it was hard to get them in the group2. Farmers were used to relying on themselves3. union prejudice against Afrimericans |
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