HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 16 Outline of Previous Lecture I II Spanish and American War Places America wanted to expand to III World War I Outline of Current Lecture I A very brief reference to the Great War and a Couple of Key Points II The Antiwar Movement in World War I III The Reaction to Antiwar Activities IV The Red Scare V The 1920s the end of Progressivism and the rise of the consumer society Current Lecture I II A very brief reference to the Great War and a Couple of Key Points It s the biggest war in human history until this time The Great Migration Woodrow Wilson o Comes up with the plan the 14 points Sets up the League of Nations o When he gets to Europe British and the French were the victors and they wanted to punish the Germans Versailles Treaty Decline of Progressivism The Antiwar Movement in World War I Germans and immigrants were discriminated against Progressive doubters o Wanted to help the unfortunate assimilating the war o Mainly women o Some progressive reformers were for the war but there were those who were against it Jane Addams and Women s Peace Party 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 III Alice Paul Isolationists and Anti Imperialists o Opposed to the Spanish American War o Not get involved in foreign entanglements o A lot of populist and labor people have this view o William Jennings Bryan represented the populists and the democratic party in an election Labor Protestors o The Wobblies IWW were intensely antiwar o The war helped to raise the wages during the war o Wages prices and labor unrest o Socialists communists etc Eugene V Debs President of the Railroad Union The Reaction to Antiwar Activities Anti German feelings and nativism o The American Protective League Assist in monitoring antiwar movement US Legislative executive reactions o Post Office censorship 1917 o Trading with The Enemy Act of 1917 All foreign newspapers must submit the paper to the censorship before they can send it out People cannot express themselves because they don t have the money to translate their newspapers into English and then submit it to the censorship o The Committee on Public Information Would keep up support for the war o Two Biggies Government being caught up in the war The Espionage Act of 1917 Imposed prison sentences or fines up to 10 000 They were accused of inhibiting the war movement o People complaining 6 000 were allegedly charged The Sedition Act of 1918 Punishments for anyone using disloyal profane or abusive language about the government the flag or the war IV V No one can complain about the government because it is illegal People get arrested for laughing at soldiers for messing up on the drill field or being rude to Red Cross Workers The Sedition act is repealed in 1920 Supreme Court Reactions o Antiwar protestors passed literature around opposing the war the government takes them to court and wins in all three cases Schenk vs United States 1919 Abrams vs United States 1919 Pierce vs United States 1920 The Red Scare Letter bombs mailed to thirty high ranking government officials o Mainly anticommunists government officials A Mitchell Palmer J Edgar Hoover and the Radical Division o Palmer and Hoover go after radicals and they deport them to Russia The Red Ark deportations January 1920 the Palmer Raids arrest some 10 000 people o About 6 500 of those people were grabbed accidentally they had to be let go o The rest of the people were held in prison to rot Mitchell s May Day warnings and the end of the Scare o Mitchell claimed there would be a massive communist uprising when the time comes nothing happens The 1920s the end of Progressivism and the rise of the consumer society
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