HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 20 Outline of Last Lecture I Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand II Attempts of Diplomacy III Germany Attacks Through Belgium IV Trench Warfare V U Boat Warfare VI Election of 1916 VII Zimmerman Telegraph VIII Russia Leaves War A Spring Warfare and the Bolshevik Revolution IX Convoy System X Wilson s 14 Points XI Treaty of Versailles Outline of Current Lecture I 1919 A Race Riots B Spanish Influenza II 1920 A Warren G Harding B Red Scare C Sacco and Vanzet III 1921 A Revenue Act B Immigration Act IV Henry Ford A Assembly Line B Middle Class V Modern Conveniences Current Lecture l A In 1919 after World War l there was a rapid demobilization of troops Most of these troops were white so when they left blacks moved up North and took their factory jobs These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute However with the rapid demobilization of troops returning vets wanted their jobs back and government contracts were over This caused race riots employment riots B People who came back from the war came down with the Spanish Influenza and they didn t start showing symptoms until they got back to their homelands Within 30 50 million people died within a year of having this influenza ll A In 1920 Warren G Harding is the republican nominee During this time Palmer decides to create the FBI These were called Palmer raids where they went into Union meetings and questioned the Communist members Because of this Palmer did not become the democratic nominee B The Red Scare was the Communist scare throughout America A mailman opened a package that had a bomb in it but it didn t go off because the batteries died All these packages that had a bomb in it were addressed to prominent businessmen So there was this fear of Communism in America C Sacco and Vanzet were Italian immigrants who were Anarchists There was a robbery and a guard was killed Eyewitnesses said these men were seen driving near the crime scene Sacco had a pistol that was the same caliber pistol as the one that killed the guard The court convicts these men and as they are trying to appeal their case an Irish gang member is caught and he admits to the murder of the guard They set up a three man commission who had to decide who committed it and they still decided it was Sacco and Vanzet They were found guilt and executed lll A In 1921 there was the Revenue act which lowered income taxes from 65 in 1919 to 50 in 1921 In 1913 there was the income tax of 4 B We made an immigration act which only allowed 50 of immigrants from a country to come into the United States lV A Henry Ford created the assembly line to make car production faster and easier He put a worker in one spot and sends parts to worker on an assembly line Now instead of making one car a day he can make one car a minute This lowers the cost of the car but some people still cannot afford it B So what Ford decides to do is pay his workers 5 a day so they could buy his cars and he could still make a profit By doing this he created the middle class and consumerism Other companies followed his example and paid their workers more so they could buy their products as well V In the 1920 s they began to produce modern conveniences like washing machines sweepers electric refrigerators electric hairdryers and radios Most appliances were for the home and radios became the centerpiece Harding was the first president to be broadcasted on the radio
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