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Warmup : 2/ 28

Warmup : 2/ 28. In your spiral notebooks: 1. What are some stereotypical labels used at River Hill to describe other students? 2. What does that name mean? 3. Does the “name” or label really represent that person or idea?? 4. How can stereotypes be diffused?.

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Warmup : 2/ 28

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  1. Warmup: 2/28 • In your spiral notebooks: • 1. What are some stereotypical labels used at River Hill to describe other students? • 2. What does that name mean? • 3. Does the “name” or label really represent that person or idea?? • 4. How can stereotypes be diffused?

  2. Watch: “How To Spot A Communist” • A: FIRST: Listen to the youtube video • B: NOW…. Write down: • 1. What are some Characteristics/qualifications of a communist? • 2. What are the DANGERS of propaganda?

  3. NATIVISM • na·tiv·ism • The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. • A return to or emphasis on traditional or local customs, in opposition to outside influences. • FEAR OF FOREIGNERS!!

  4. The Red Scare Fear of Communism in America Vladimir Lenin & the Russian Revolution Power point created by Robert L. Martinez Primary content Source: A History of US; War, Peace, and All That Jazz; by Joy Hakim

  5. Russia fought with the Allies in WWI until the Russian people decided they’d had enough of the war. They decided to concentrate on fixing their own government. Russian soldiers of World War I

  6. The Russians overthrew CsarNicholas II. Closing the gap between the rich and poor in Russia. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia

  7. They wanted freedom like the Americans. A revolution was staged to overthrow their czar in 1917.

  8. But instead of a Democracy, a Communist revolutionary named Vladimir Lenin took power in Russia, and became the country’s dictator. Vladimir Lenin

  9. There were those in America who were scared by Russia’s Communist revolution. UnderCommunism: all property and goods belong to the state. Death to Capitalism

  10. Sickle and Hammer (for the industrial worker and the peasant) became sympols of Communism

  11. Communist people are expected to share. That sounds great, but it just never works unless forced upon people.

  12. After World War I, some Americans were scared that communists wanted to take over in the United States.

  13. There were few Communists in America and were not successful in “stirring the pot”. Most Americans were not attracted to Communism’s ideas. America’s Liberty Bell & the American Bald Eagle

  14. During this same period, there were those called Anarchists. Anarchist’s do not believe in governments but in Absence of government - absolute freedom of the individual.

  15. Emma Goldman- Russian born American anarchist • “No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time”

  16. “The most violent element in society is ignorance”.

  17. “The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. In truth, it is such free expression and discussion alone that can point the most beneficial path for human rights, progress and development.”

  18. You don’t have to be very smart to realize that anarchy doesn’t work. But, when anarchists looked around and saw poverty and war, they blamed the government. American Doughboys WWI

  19. A few anarchists tried to do that by setting off bombs intended to kill U.S. government leaders. Bombing on Wall Street, New York City.

  20. In 1920, a bomb exploded on Wall Street, killing 38 people and fueling fears that communists threatened the nation’s security.

  21. That, of course, was criminal behavior. Newspapers made big headlines of the bombs. Many Americans were frightened.

  22. NICOLO SACCO AND BARTOLOMO VANZETTI - ANARCHISTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sYAU96FY0

  23. Red Scare raised suspicion of foreigners. Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Italian immigrants who are accused killing a paymaster and his guard for their $15,000 payroll. The evidence against Sacco & Vanzetti was circumstantial & the judge made prejudicial remarks. Jury found them guilty and sentenced them to death. SACCO AND VANZETTI

  24. Last statement made by Vanzetti before he was executed by the electric chair on Aug. 23, 1927… “In all my life I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood…We were tried during a time…when there was hysteria of resentment and hate against the people of our principles, against the foreigner…I am suffering because I am a radical and indded I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian…If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.”

  25. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists, and many believed they were found guilty because of their ideas not because of the alleged crime. The immigrant community was outraged over the arrests and sentences.

  26. In response, Mitchell Palmer, President Wilson’s attorney general , without authority, conducted an illegal “witch hunt” for suspected communists and anarchists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xjIK3rkX6M Mitchell Palmer

  27. Attorney General Palmer took the law into his own hands, and, in two days, (Palmer Raids) agents (in 1920), invaded homes, clubs, union halls, and coffee shops, rounding up nearly 5,000 people.

  28. 5,000 people were held in jail, not allowed to call anyone, and treated terribly.

  29. Those without citizenship papers were sent out of the country (deported). Most were not guilty of anything.

  30. Communists are sometimes called “reds” after the flag and colors of the Russian Revolution. Mitchell Palmer took advantage of America’s fear and prejudice of communism and immigrants.

  31. Palmer helped create a “Red Scare.” He hoped the issue would make him a popular presidential candidate for being hard on Communists. But, it didn’t work that way.

  32. During the Red Scare, Americans were not free to speak out about Communism. They were not free to criticize the government. Some people’s lives were ruined after being accused as a communist.

  33. The 1st Amendment says that citizens are free to speak their minds, including communists and anarchists, as long as they do not engage in criminal activity or plot to overthrow the government.

  34. In addition, during the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan grew tremendously. The Klan no longer limited its hatred to blacks, it included anti-immigration, anti-communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Jewish propaganda. Freedom of Speech ?

  35. The rise of the KKK was a direct result of nativist views in the US: overt favoritism to native-born Americans.

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