Labor

After WWI, cooperation between labor unions and the government ended.

During the 1920’s, strikes increased dramatically.

Strikers were seen as radicals (remember the IWW man in the video who went to jail?)

(Nativism theme – the United States is NOT radical)

ALSO, since Republicans were in office during the 12 years (1920-1932), they are blamed as being anti-union. This is true even TODAY. Unions today generally support the Democratic Party.

KKK

The Klan existed after the Civil War, dwindled away, and was REBORN in 1915.

Why? - LARGELY as a response to the growing number of immigrants coming to America.

1924 = > (greater than) 4,000,000 members throughout the nation (yes, even in Oregon!)

The list of hated groups grew from African Americans, to include Catholics, Jews, and foreigners

They may have declined as a group after scandals in 1925, but their influence lived on officially in U.S. immigration policy (see below) and other ways, such as the executions of anarchist Italian foreigners Sacco and Vanzetti (from the video).

Immigration Policy

Immigration ---> became associated with radicalism (after the Communist Russian Revolution)

Nativism ---> began to take on a “racial” character (beyond just simply black and white… there were better whites and worse whites.)

National Origins Act of 1924

1. banned immigrants from Asia

2. quota set at 2% of Europeans

3. based on 1890 census (BEFORE Southern and Eastern Europeans came to the U.S in greater numbers, like they did AFTER that census… WHY didn’t the U.S. government use the MOST RECENT 1920 census?)

Prohibition 1920-1933

Prohibition coincided directly with the Republican Party control of the federal government. (Isn’t the Republican Party considered the “morality” party TODAY?)

18^th Amendment – outlaws the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol

19^th Amendment – gave women the right to vote

20^th Amendment – President starts term in January, instead of March

21^st Amendment – repealed the 18^th Amendment

consumption down 33% (video)

enforcement – 1,500 agents nationwide (that’s about 30 people per state!)

The Scopes (Monkey) Trial

1925 - Dayton, Tennessee

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Evolution creationism

Darwin Bible

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