Free America

As the saying went, when a wall collapsed, everyone gave it a shove. For the United States at this moment, the Great Flu was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, instantly igniting the tensions that had long been suppressed across the country.

British and german-american immigrants, who had nowhere to voice themselves under the US Government's suppression policies, seized the chance to vent their fury upon the government.

Amid the chorus of hearsay, large numbers of Americans also began to be swayed by newspaper opinion from across Europe and America, believing that the US Government had been behind the Great Flu.

If the flu had affected only Europe, then no matter how dissatisfied Americans were with their government's actions, their emotions could not have run so high.

What truly infuriated Americans was that the devastation the flu had caused in the United States was already plain to see. Europe, as one of the hardest-hit regions, had seen more than ten million people contract the flu, with over a million deaths.

The United States was not much better off than Europe. The number infected had already reached several million, at least hundreds of thousands of Americans had died from the flu, and hundreds of thousands of families had been torn apart by it.

British and German immigrants, the relatives of Americans who had died from the flu, and Black people—together, these groups were enough to create enormous trouble for the current US Government.

Beginning in New York, crowds of demonstrators could be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of America's major cities. They held up all manner of banners, condemning the US Government's inaction during the flu while listing its countless crimes.

Those Americans who hated President Wilson to the bone raised banners reading, "Wilson step down!"