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During the Depression, Dorothea Lange and Paul Schuster Taylor documented
documented the plight of displaced farm workers in a government report
report entitled American Exodus: A Record of
Human Erosion.
Erosion.
The brief quotes, like the quote from the woman pictured, were selected
selected from interviews with farm workers during the 1930s.
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How does the woman in the photograph describe her problems? The nation’s problems?
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Based on the short quotes included here, how did farm workers view their plight during the 1930s?
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Why do you think the federal report is subtitled A Record of Human Erosion?
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TEKS
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Coming
out of World War I, Americans were focused on returning to
to normal
and improving the nation’s economy. Through three oneone-term presidencies,
the country saw an economic boom, labor troubles, and the seeds of an
economic disaster that loomed as the decade ended.
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As the 1920s began Americans feared the spread of Russian communism,
communism, oneparty
control of people and land. Their fears encouraged a Red Scare,
Scare, an intense fear of
communism and other politically radical ideas. In a controversial
controversial case, two Italian
immigrants, Sacco and Vanzetti,
Vanzetti, were tried and executed for the robbery and murder of a
shoe factory guard. Many believe they were convicted only because
because they were immigrants
with radical beliefs.
The Supreme Court made two important rulings in the 1920s. Justice
Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr., stated that the government had the right to silence free speech when there is
a “clear and present danger.” In the second ruling the Supreme Court
Court held that the
Fourteenth Amendment protected the right of free speech against restriction by state
governments as well as the federal government.
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Labor
unrest added to people’s fears, as many Americans thought
Communists were behind strikes, riots, and bombings. Distrusting Democrats,
people looked to Republicans.
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Republican President Warren G. Harding
embraced the policy of isolationism,
isolationism,
avoiding political alliances with foreign countries. Harding proposed
posed
pro
disarmament,
disarmament, in which nations would voluntarily give up their weapons.
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Nativist feelings were strong
in the 1920s and the government restricted
immigration, placing a quota,
quota, or numerical limit, on certain ethnic groups.
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When Calvin Coolidge became President in 1923, he instituted
a laissezfaire
policy toward businesses. This helped fuel the 1920s economic boom.
boom.
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Begin Taking Notes
1. What events
fueled the Red Scare of the early 1920s?
2. What conflicts led to the major labor strikes of 1919?
3. How did Republican leadership during the Harding and Coolidge presidencies
presidencies
shape the 1920s?
4. What issues influenced the presidential election of 1928?
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The Red Scare
Issues
of concern in the presidential election of 1920:
Emerging from the shadow of World War I
Putting the economy back on track
Republican Warren G.
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Harding called for a return to “normalcy.”
The Red Scare
Many Americans hoped that Harding’s “normalcy” would protect them
them from the spread of
Russia’s communism,
communism, an ideology openly hostile to capitalism and First Amendment freedoms.
freedoms.
Some Americans were concerned that the European immigrants entering
entering the United States were
Communists or other radicals.
Events at home and abroad brought about a Red Scare,
Scare, an intense fear of communism and
other radical ideas.
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Red Scare Events
Labor Strikes
The Harding Presidency
The Coolidge Presidency
Coolidge
assumed the presidency after Harding died.
He summed up a major theme of the Republican decade: “The chief
business of the American people is business.”
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The Coolidge Presidency
Coolidge supported
a laissezlaissez-faire approach to business. His
economic policies helped fuel the economic boom of the 1920s.
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The Coolidge Presidency
Coolidge
wanted peace and stability without without getting the United States too
deeply involved in other nations.
Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg worked with the French foreign
foreign minister to create
the KelloggKellogg-Briand Pact.
Pact. Under this pact more than 60 nations agreed not to threaten
each other with war. Unfortunately, there were no provisions for
for enforcement, and
many of the countries that had signed the pact would be at war with
with each other by
1941.
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A Republican Decade—
Decade—Assessment
How did the Red Scare contribute to America’s policy of isolationism
isolationism in the 1920s?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
It made Americans more nativist.
nativist.
It caused a significant American military increase.
It helped Americans form stronger relationships with nonnon-Communist countries.
It decreased U.S. involvement in Latin America.
What was the KelloggKellogg-Briand Pact?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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A treaty outlawing war
A treaty outlawing trade with Communist countries
A treaty supporting war against Communist countries
A treaty supporting international civil liberties
A Republican Decade—
Decade—Assessment
How did the Red Scare contribute to America’s policy of isolationism
isolationism in the 1920s?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
It made Americans more nativist.
nativist.
It caused a significant American military increase.
It helped Americans form stronger relationships with nonnon-Communist countries.
It decreased U.S. involvement in Latin America.
What was the KelloggKellogg-Briand Pact?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
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A treaty outlawing war
A treaty outlawing trade with Communist countries
A treaty supporting war against Communist countries
A treaty supporting international civil liberties
Work
Look over your notes from today.
1. Answer the 4 questions from today’s lecture.
2. In five sentences, write a brief summary of what we went over in class today. Use the highlighted key
terms in your summary!
Title the paper the same as the Lecture Notes.
Make sure to put your Name,
Name, Date,
Date, and Period in the upper right hand corner of your page.
Turn this in at the beginning of class tomorrow – put it in the handhand-in/collection basket.
Worth 25 out of 100 points for this week’s Daily grade.
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