HIST 2112 Lecture 10 Outline of Last Lecture I America during the age of Imperialism From Colony to Colonizer II Europe s Imperial Heyday 19th Century III America Traditionally anti imperialist but IV Why American Imperialism A Profit B Power and Prestige C Cultural Ideas a Social Darwinism b Race and Christianity c Spreading Democracy d Masculinity V The Spanish American War 1898 A Two key events a De Lome Letter b The Maine explosion VI Anti imperialist Feelings A Teller amendment B Anti imperial league C Anti imperials angered by Platt Amendment D Philippines VII Philippines America as the new Spain VIII American Imperialism continues Outline of Current Lecture I A very brief reference to the Great War and a couple of Key points A The Great Migration B Woodrow Wilson the Versailles Treaty and the Decline of Progressivism II The Antiwar Movement in WWI A Progressive Doubters a Jane Addams and the Women s Peace Party b Alice Paul B Isolationists and Anti Imperialists III IV V a William Jennings Bryan C Labor Protestors a Wages prices and labor unrest b Socialists communists etc 1 Eugene V Debs The Reaction to Antiwar Activities A Anti German feelings and nativism a The American Protective League B US Legislative executive reaction a Post office censorship 1917 b Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 c The Committee on Public Information d Two Biggies C Supreme Court Reactions a Schenk vs US 1919 b Abrams vs US 1919 c Pierce vs US 1920 The Red Scare A Letter bombs mailed to thirty government officials B A Mitchell Palmer J Edgar Hoover and the Radical Division C The Red Ark deportations D Jan 1920 The palmer raids arrest some 10 000 people E Mitchell s May Day Warnings and the end of the Scare The 1920s The end of progressivism and the rise of the consumer society Current Lecture World War I and the Red Scare I A very brief reference to the Great War and a couple of Key points A The Great Migration Northward migration because blacks want to leave the south picks up in WWII B Woodrow Wilson the Versailles Treaty and the Decline of Progressivism o Death of Progressivism 1920s It s very difficult to talk about reform etc o Making the World Safe for Democracy Woodrow Wilson He is a classic Progressive After WWI he took the positive view and said here s an opportunity for a peace treaty for the world 14 points Europe doesn t like them they re mad want vengeance NOW has stroke almost dies wife helps him while he is down out death of an era II III o Versailles Treaty The Antiwar Movement in WWI A Progressive Doubters Mainly Female Activists o Forget Europe Start by fixing problems at home a Jane Addams and the Women s Peace Party b Alice Paul went on a hunger strike to protest the war insane asylum force fed to end her strike B Isolationists and Anti Imperialists many of the same people who rejected Spanish American War o We should not get involved in foreign affairs a William Jennings Bryan C Labor Protestors People in the toughest industries radical unions anti war a Wages prices and labor unrest war was a capitalist war between rich people and the poor working men had to go fight o Rich man s war poor man s fight b Socialists communists etc 1 Eugene V Debs railroad man turned union activist Socialist He says the capitalist tells us we re going to Europe to fight for freedom let them do it The Reaction to Antiwar Activities We tend to lean towards British A Anti German feelings and nativism A lot of Americans who were from German ancestry change their names to avoid anti Germans threats a The American Protective League group that takes it upon themselves to enforce the law they get secretly funded by the govn t encouraged people to spy on their neighbors and report anything suspicious to the authorities slacker patrols who ran across college aged man no draft card beating o 100 AMERICANISM B US Legislative executive reaction a Post office censorship 1917 Trading with the enemy the post office censors the mail Anything damaging the war or America does not get carried b Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 foreign language newspapers are illegal if there is not an English version that has been approved by the government c The Committee on Public Information CPI is a government organization who rallies troops for war VI VII d Two Biggies Espionage Act Sedition Act o What happens when freedom of speech is clamped down on o E Act You can be put in jail for 10years or fined 10 000 for having anything to do with the enemy 600 people go to jail o S Act Anyone who uses any kind of abusive profane or scurrilous language against America can go to jail 1200 people go to jail including Eugene Debs C Supreme Court Reactions a Schenk vs US 1919 b Abrams vs US 1919 Read document c Pierce vs US 1920 o Anti war people who are immigrants who complain about war and spread documentation during the S Act the Supreme Court Rules against them and they go to jail The Red Scare After the war A Letter bombs mailed to thirty government officials 1919 o 30 officials o Like terrorism o The people who receive bombs were anti communists B A Mitchell Palmer J Edgar Hoover runs FBI and the Radical Division o They get together and crack down on communists and radicals with the Radical division deport those people C The Red Ark deportations F Jan 1920 The palmer raids arrest some 10 000 people suspected revolutionaries 6 000 are released immediately others sit in jail for a long time with no charges UGLY G Mitchell s May Day Warnings and the end of the Scare good information May Day attempted revolution in the US nothing happens The 1920s The end of progressivism and the rise of the consumer society