Notes from Monday, 5th Period

Today we got our DBQ's back...Mr. G.didn't think they were so hot. So, he said that we need to fully answer the question and that has to be answered fully in the thesis. You must also use outside knowledge or your grade won't be good. We then looked at thesis examples from the class. Ok but here were the actually notes we took: Repression and Contradictions-repression included CPI's campaign against the Germans and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1917. -Postwar Radicalism involved mineworkers and railroad workers who thought that the government must take control. -the Longshoremen on the West Coast refused to load ships with supplies for white Russians who were fighting the Bolsheviks. -Socialist Eugen Debs received one million voted even though he was in prison for giving that speech in Ohio. Radicals were Divided: -Russian revolution split the American socialist party into a "socialist" party following Debs and supporting Democratic procedures and communism, advocating Leninism. -many anarchists called for violence. 1919 Red Scare: -30 states passed sedition laws. -vigilantes wrecked the offices of socialists. -universities fired radical professors. -American Legion (vets of WW1) identified seditious groups. Climax; The Palmer Raids: -Attorney General Palmer was on edge because a bomb exploded in his yard. -broke into homes and work offices of people that were suspected anarchists and revolutionaries but only found three pistols. -6000 were arrested. -these 6000 were not charged. Sacco and Vanzetti: -anarchists charged with murder and robbery. -convicted and sentenced to death. -the sentence would have been a lot lighter if it wasn't during the time of the Red Scare. African American Soldiers: -concept of the New Negro. -wanted to embrace culture and heroism. -1000's joined the NAACP. -came back to postwar discrimination. -blacks and white women were fired from their jobs because white men were coming back from war. -lynch mobs targeted black vets. In July of 1919 in Chicago a black teen swam a little too close to the white only beach at Lake Michigan. They brutally beat and murdered the poor boy. It set off a riot. That's all I got! Pray for snow! Liz Ziek