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Issues of the 20's Group 3 (Nativist Policy Sarah (Immigrants…
Issues of the 20's Group 3
Strikes/Labor Unions during 1920's
Labor unions weakened Open Shop System and Welfare Capitalism
There were many strikes during this time period. They include Boston Police Strike, U.S. Steel Strike, Coal Miners Strike, John L. Lewis.
working conditions
wartime inflation
technological unemployment
Nativist Policy
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Immigrants proved a threat to the Americans. They thought that immigrants were taking away jobs and money of the united states.
Nativism is a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
Washington Conference
-proposed disarmament
Teapot Dome Scandal
Government owned oil rich lands and leased them out to private oil companies for less than their value.
Embarrassed Harding and his administration
Calvin Coolidge replaces him and wins re-election
Harding dies in office
Kellogg-Briand Treaty
-outlawed war
The red scare was the fear that communisim would take over the country during the 20’s through immigrants and there ideas
The palmer raids where Mitchell Palmer organizing the arrest and deportation of people accused of being communist radicials. Mitchell palmer was the attorney general of the united states from 1919-1921.
Sacco and Vanzetti was italian american men who where convicted of robbery and murder. The trial was not fair because almost every argument against them was disproven during court but the fact that they known radicals prejudiced the jury against them. They where denied appeals and where eventually sentenced to death via electric chair 7 years later.
The clan grew during the 20’s because of the fear of immigrants and their ideas of communism
