Class notes for Monday, Feb. 12th.

We started off the class with notes on how to write better DBQ essays.
*Read the question and answer it fully.
*Use more outside information on the DBQ.

A weak thesis- Compares Washington and DuBois but doesn't assess their plans appropriateness.
An okay thesis- Says whether one plan was better than the other.
A strong thesis- Uses outside information, compares and assesses the appropriateness of the plans.


Repression and Contradictions
-Wartime repression had included CPI's campaign against Germans and Immigration Restriction act of 1917.
-Post-War radicalism took for of mine workers and railroad workers calling on the government to take over mines and railroads.
-Longshoremen on the west coast refused to load ships with supplies for white Russians fighting Bolsheviks
-Socialist Eugene Debs received 1million votes for president in 1920 even though he was in prision.

Radicals were divided... However
-Russian revolution had split the American Socialist party into a "socialist" party following Debs and supporting democratic procedures and "communist" party advocating Leninism.
-Beyond these were small groups of anarchists calling for violence.

Americans overlooked differences and feared communism would gain foothold in US.
-In 1919, Red Scare prompted further government and private citizen action.
-30 states pass sedition acts.
-Vigilantes wrech office of socialists
-Universities fire radical professors.
-American Legion- New Verteran's group set out to identify seditious organizations and induviduals.

Climax was Palmer Raids on New Year's Day 1920
-Attorney General Palmer on edge because bomb had gone off in his yard.
-Palmer's agents break into homes and meeting places of thousands of suspected revolutionaries in 33 cities.
-Agents find 3 pistols, no rifels, and no explosives but arrested 6,000 people who were held in jail but not charged.