37:575:202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jim Crow Laws, Ethnic Conflict, Nativism (Politics)
23 Dec 2018
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Split into two; some progressive and some radical (picketers) Still didn"t have the right to vote everywhere; some states gave them the right. 19th amendment: women gain the right to vote. Forced due to the strikes, protests by women. Nationwide steel strike (no steel unions around) General strikes: all workers go on strike no matter what industry (seattle) People fear that the working-class could do that in us (some like it) Massive strike wave - seattle, steel, boston police. First came around post-reconstruction (enforcers of jim crow laws) New klan targeted immigrants, jews, blacks, etc. Native-born americans are good; immigrant americans are lesser. Johnson reed act each country can only have a certain number of immigrants to us. That number set on the proportion of that country"s population here to u. s. pop each year. Raids on all iww offices and arrests of all iww leaders. Red scare (strikes disorders bolshevism chaos ?)
