1919 - A Year of Turmoil

The end of the "Great War" ushered in a year of strife and violence instead of peace and tranquility. Visit the links listed below and answer the questions. Your answers may be typed or hand-written. Do your own work and put answers into your own words (in other words, don't select/copy/paste/print!). Yes, answers must be in complete sentences!

1. Describe the Flu Pandemic of 1918-19 (pandemic means a world-wide epidemic). How many people died from the flu? Read some of the letters of the survivors. What were conditions like?

http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

2. What was the Sparticist Revolt? Where did the revolt take place and what was the result?

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/spartacists.htm

3. When was the Russian Civil War fought? What were the names of the two sides that were fighting? Which side won?

http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article?eu=402644

4. Describe the "Red Scare" that took place in the United States in 1919. What was Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer "scared" of that might take place in the US?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAredscare.htm

5. America experienced much labor unrest during 1919. How many strikes took place? How many workers went on strike?

http://www.radford.edu:8800/~shepburn/1919_strikes.htm

6. How did Seattle Mayor Ole Hanson respond to the Seattle General Strike?

http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/strike/

7. America suffered many race riots in 1919. The worst took place in Chicago. How did the Chicago Race Riot begin? Describe some of the violence. How many people died and were injured?

http://chicago.urban-history.org/scrapbks/raceriot/raceriot.htm

http://gangresearch.net/ChicagoGangs/earlygangs/Riotbegins.html

8. Even baseball suffered in 1919. What does the "Black Sox Scandal" refer to? Why was Eddie Cicotte mad at team owner Charles Comiskey? Did the players throw every game? Why or why not? Also, why did the starting pitcher for the last game of the series only last one-third of an inning?

http://www.sptimes.com/News/122299/Sports/Black_Sox_scandal__Ch.shtml

9. Why might one argue that "Shoeless" Joe Jackson should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson