Explain the causes of the public reaction (Sacco and Vanzetti, labor, racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare.
Remarks
Examples may also include, but are not limited to, Palmer Raids, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
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Subject Area: Social Studies
Grade: 912
Date Adopted or Revised: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved
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Related Access Points
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| SS.912.A.5.AP.2 | Identify the causes of the public reaction (labor, strikes, and racial unrest) associated with the Red Scare. |
Related Resources
Lesson Plans
| Name |
Description |
| The Tumultuous 20s: The Red Scare | In this lesson, students will review how the public and media reaction associated with the Red Scare influenced government decision making related to public issues. |
| Reading Like a Historian: Palmer Raids | In this lesson, students analyze primary source documents in an effort to answer the central historical question: What caused the Palmer Raids? The lesson begins by asking students what communism/socialism means to them. Students share answers in pairs. The teacher then provides background information on the Red Scare and follows up by streaming a film clip from Discovery Education. Students then analyze 2 documents-"The Case Against the Reds" by A. Mitchell Palmer and a deportation statement by Emma Goldman-and answer guiding questions for each. A final class discussion corroborates the documents: why did the nation allow the Palmer Raids to take place? |
Original Student Tutorial
| Name |
Description |
| Postwar Blues...and Reds | In this interactive tutorial, learn about the years immediately following World War I: 1919 and 1920. These were dangerous years of economic depression, racial violence, and anti-immigrant nativism in the United States. You'll learn about the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. |
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorial
| Name |
Description |
| Postwar Blues...and Reds: | In this interactive tutorial, learn about the years immediately following World War I: 1919 and 1920. These were dangerous years of economic depression, racial violence, and anti-immigrant nativism in the United States. You'll learn about the Red Scare, the Palmer Raids, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. |
