Self-help in Hard Times

Strikes in 1920s

100

1919 Strike involving a certain metal

Steel Strike in Pennsylvania

300

Response to trade union recognition and protesting for better wages and working conditions, also in 1919

Boston Police Strike- because they were recieving layoffs and wage cuts

500

Striking agianst a wage increase, and this strike was so influential, it brought the city to a halt

Seattle General Strike- because it was a walkout of 100,000 working people, this created the peace in the city before the crime rose also in other cities as well

Quotes T v.s C

100

"nativism helped instigate the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan as a major force in American society"

Textbook- because the chapter didn't mention a connection between the immigration quotas and rise of the KKK in the 1920s.

300

"Thirty-nine members of the IWW were jailed as "ring-leaders of anarchy"

Chapter- because IWW was a major organization in the 1920s and this quote explains result of the crime that rose after strikes ended.

500

"the economy was fundamentally unsound." He [John Galbraith] points to  very unhealthy corporate and banking structures, an unsound foreign trade, much economic misinformation, and the "bad distribution of income".

Chapter- because it includes specific description and details of why the Great Depression happened, as well as included quote from the slideshow