For
Section 7B, read Chapter 8 in the Foner book and the primary documents
below. Come to discussion ready to
talk about what the United States was fighting for in World War I and what Americans
were fighting about at home during the era of "100 per cent
Americanism." Also think
about whether the Americanization campaigns during World War I and the early
1920s represented an extension of, or a departure from, the reform movements of
the Progressive Era.
**President Woodrow Wilson,
"Making the World Safe for Democracy" (1917)
**Robert La Follette, "It Has No
Popular Support" (1917)
**Good Housekeeping, "Kitchen Soldiers" (1917)
**Eugene
Debs (Socialist Party) Antiwar Speech (1918)
**Anti-German Violence in Wisconsin (1918)
**Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, "The Case against the Reds" (1920)
**Senator Ellison Smith, "Shut
the Door" (1924)
**Senator Robert Clancy,
"Immigration Act is Un-American" (1924)
**John Dos Passos, "Save Sacco and
Vanzetti" (1927)