5/1 7 PM Review Session

KKK rises during the GD, by blaming blacks, catholics and jews for the depression

Political Paranoia

First red scare is 1917, to coincide with the Bolshevik Revolution

Espionage Act

1918 Sabotage-Sedition Act

Public expression of opposition to WWI will lead to imprisonment

1920

Palmer Raids

Breaking into and searching the houses of suspected anarchists

Often anti-immigrant

To stop the Comintern (Communist International)

1940's

Infiltration of spies into U.S.

Rosenbergs

Alger Hiss

Registered Communists were monitored

1950's

Joe McCarthy

Claimed to hold a list of 200 Communists in the State Department

Led to the House of Un-American Activities Committee

Japanese Internment Camps in WWII

Economic Philosophy

First is Mercantilism

Enrich mother country by exporting for than you import

Colonies provide low cost raw materials

Leads to revolution

1776

"Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith

Condemns Mercantilism

Provides 3 Laws of Healthy Economy

Self-Interest

Self-profit motivation

Competition

Laissez Faire

Government does not intervene in big Business

1848, Newark

Karl Marx writes Communist Manifesto

Condemns by Adam Smith

5 Concepts

Economic Determinism

Class Conflict

Bloody Overthrow of the Bourgeoisie

Temporary Dictatorship

"Temporary" in theory

Commune of man

Keynesian

Part of the New Deal, takes off in the 40's and 50's

Use of government spending to maintain the economy

Inject money into failing parts of the economy

Practiced today

American Literature

Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Part of the Great Awakening

Thomas Jefferson "Declaration of Independence"

James Madison The Constitution

"Democracy in America", Tocqueville

Written in Jacksonian Era

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Walden

Transcendentalists

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

"Moby Dick" Herman Melville

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" Harriet Beecher Stowe

Highlighted Racism

Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer"

Race Relations

1890, Helen Hunt Jackson "A Century of Dishonor"

About the degradation of Native Americans

Edward Bellamy "Looking Backwards"

About Immigrant Poverty

Muckrakers

Jacob Riis "How the Other Half Lives"

"Jungle" Upton Sinclair

Alfred Mahan "Influence of Sea Power on History"

Imperialism

Lost Generation

Anti-materialsim

Sinclair Lewis

"Grapes of Wrath" John Steinbeck

"On The Road" Jack Kerouac

Critical of suburbia

"Women's Rights: The Feminine Mystique" Freeden 

"The Monkey Wrench Gang" Edward Abbey

About environmentalists

Sabotage of construction equipment