Social Changes and Unrest in American During World War I

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December 7th, 2013 World War I left the citizens of the United States on edge and fearing for their lives and their families lives from the “Reds.” The “Reds” were the army that Vladimir Lenin led against the Russian Monarchy to introduce communism in Russia. Many Americans feared that Lenin’s followers, the Bolsheviks, would come and do the same in America. They were afraid America would be taken over. By immigrants, anarchists, and communists. This post World War I time period became known as the Red Scare. During this time of fear and unease every immigrant was suspect in the eyes of the “native” Americans and the government. The war, combined with this, caused many social changes and general social unrest, and made Americans and immigrants alike stand up for what they believed in, sometimes paying the cost through jail and even deportation. This all changed America in several key ways. The social changes and unrest made many Americans and immigrants alike fear for their lives and livelihoods. Urbanization during the war pulled women, men and children alike from rural areas into highly populated, metropolitan areas. The formerly provincial families started living in the same cities as immigrants new to the United States. After the war the fear of these foreigners and their transoceanic ways started to increase rapidly. This fear amplified in the late spring and early summer of 1919, after several bombs went off in two separate bombings. One involved 36 bombs mailed to members of the politically elite and the rich. These mail bombings were sent to people like J.D.Rockefeller and Rayme Weston Finch, who was a member of the FBI (McCormick). The other consisted of eight bombs set off in eight different places. One of the eight ... ... middle of paper ... ...’s shoe factory. As they were walking with the pay box containing a large sum of money, two men started firing at them. The two gunmen took the pay box and jumped into a nearby vehicle which sped away with the money inside, leaving the guard and pay master mortally wounded on the ground. Three weeks later, two Italian men were arrested for the murders. The two men who were arrested for these premeditated murders were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a shoe maker and a fish peddler respectively. Their arrests would launch one of the most biased Supreme Court cases in history, and that would lead to both men being sentenced to death April of 1927 (Frankfurter). Their executions caused controversy in the world community and in America- even between neighbors. It also helped to spark American’s fears that they would be next if all the anarchists were not deported.

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