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Post WWI Problems (Palmer Raids (cause: series of unexplained bombings,…
Post WWI Problems
Palmer Raids
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Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer = establish office under Hoover to gather info on radicals, order mass arrests (mostly foreigns)
Nov 1919-Jan 1920: 6,000 ppl arrested (limited criminal evidence)
Demobilization
when men returned, they took jobs from women and African Americans
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Race Riots
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largest = St. Louis, IL in 1917
worst = Chicago (40 killed, 500 injured)
Strikes of 1919
Seattle (Feb): 60,000 in peaceful strike for higher pay
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Sept: workers for US Steel Corporation strike, considerable violence ensued, strike broken in Jan 1920
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Labor Conflict
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factory workers & unions got square deal from Roosevelt and protection from lawsuits with Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914