Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues

Read Chapter 20-1 beginning on page 618 and answer the following questions. They are to be posted to your blog on Tuesday prior to the beginning of class.

Title: Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues Labels: Palmer_raids, KKK, Labor_Unions, Coolidge

After World War I, many Americans feared that Communists would take over the country.

1. How did the Justice Department under A. Mitchell Palmer respond to this fear?
by enforcing Isolationism

2. Why did Palmer eventually lose his standing with the American public?
he went after all socialists anarchists and communists

3. How did the Ku Klux Klan respond to this fear?
They preached discrimination and racism showing their hate for immigrants.
"keep america for americans"

4. Why did the Klan eventually lose popularity and membership?
all of their actions were criminal activities with a violent intent.

5. Briefly describe how Sacco and Vanzetti became victims of the Red Scare.
The 2 italian immigrants robbed a pay master and killed him. This showed how they as immigrants were not good for america therefore fueling the red scare.


Public opinion turned against labor unions as many Americans came to believe that unions encouraged communism.

6. Why was the strike by Boston police unpopular with the public?
because the cause they were striking for was putting the publics safety at risk.

7. Why did Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge become so popular?
because he discoraged the strikes?

8. Why was the strike at U.S. Steel unpopular?
it looked as if they were promoting communism

9. How did President Wilson respond to the steel strike?
he wrote a plea to the negotiators.