Transcript World War I Lesson 4

WORLD
WAR I
LESSON 4
The War’s Impact
 1. What increased the cost of living after the war?
rapid inflation
2. Why did business leaders want to break the power
of the unions?
Membership in unions had grown; they were
better organized and more capable of striking
3. How was the Seattle
General Strike
different from other
strikes of the time?
it involved all the
workers in the
community, and it
paralyzed the city.
4.
Why was the Boston
Police Strike important?
About 75 percent of
the Boston police force
walked off the job,
causing riots and
looting.The governor
called the National
Guard and upheld the
firing of the striking
policemen.
How did the steel strike affect the steelworker’s union?
The strike failed and the union cause in the steel
industry was set back for more than a decade
6. What circumstances contributed to the race riots of
1919?
Economics conditions were difficult, causing many
Americans to be laid off.
Returning soldiers had difficulty finding jobs and
affordable housing.
Many blamed African Americans who moved north
for jobs during the war.
5.
1. What was the Red
Scare?
nationwide
panic that
Communists
could seize
power in the
United States.
2. How did violence add to the climate of fear?
Homemade bombs were sent to prominent
Americans and riots occurred.
3. What were the Palmer Raids?
The attorney general raided offices of
immigrant unions and radical organizations
because of the Red Scare.
4. Who was the
Republican candidate
who won the election
of 1920?
Warren G. Harding
SUMMARY AND REFLECTION
1. What conditions were present in the United
States after WWI?
By 1919 there were economic problems such as
inflation, very few jobs, and thousands of strikes
due to labor unrest.
Because many African Americans took over jobs
vacated by white service men, racial tensions
were high.
Americans felt threatened by communism.
THE GREAT MIGRATION
1.
Why do you think Henry Ford and other wanted to
recruit workers from the South?
Northern factory owners needed workers of any kind,
and the population of African Americans in the South
was not going off to war in as high numbers as whites,
which meant they were available.
Also, Southern African Americans were historically paid
low wages, which meant that they would be grateful for
the better wages offered in Northern factories and
unlikely to unionize or agitate for improvements.
2.
What other factors besides
overcrowding might have
contributed to the race riots
of 1919?
 Many returning soldiers had a
difficult time findings jobs
 Unemployed whites blamed
working African Americans for
hardships causing racial tensions
to grow in cities
3.
Why do you think the population of Southern African
Americans became more urbanized during the Great
Migration?
The entire country was becoming more urbanized during
the early twentieth century as American agriculture
struggled and American industry boomed.
In addition, war production and capacity were not limited
to Northern cities; cities across the nation saw an
increase in production.
Southern cities offered work in the same way that
Northern cities did.
4.
5.
What kinds of cultural changes do you think the Great Migration brought
to the African American community?
movement of more African Americans to cities
faster pace of life
cultural influences
prosperity and movement into the middle class
What do you think were some of the long term effects of the migration
of African Americans from rural Southern areas to Northern urban areas?
prosperity and movement into the middle class for some
life restricted to poor urban areas
eventually the Civil Rights Movement