Pros And Cons Of What Brought About The Red Scare In The US

1. What brought about the Red scare in the US? What effect did it have? * Fears still existed of red Russia years after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 * Started a Communist party in America * At the end of the war an epidemic of strikes resulted in high prices and frustrated union organizing drives * People jumped to the conclusion that labor troubles were formented by bomb and whisker Bolsheviks * US had a great fear that communism could spread throughout the country * Red scare resulted in a nationwide crusade against left wingers whose Americanism was suspect * Attorney general A. Mitchell Palmer was known for his excess of zeal in rounding up suspects- totaled about 6 thousand * Many of these suspects were put
Who are ten of the key people who made a name for themselves in the 1920s? What does this say about the 1920s?

Henry Ford – affordable way of transportation – the model T
Langston Hughes – major poet in the 1920s
Charles A. Lindbergh – first to fly over the Atlantic Ocean
Frederick W. Taylor – known as the “Father of scientific management”
Thomas Edison – brought the first “movie”
Margaret Sanger – birth-control movement
Babe Ruth – home-run hero, more popular than statesmen (baseball)
Guglielmo Marconi – wireless telegraphy
The Wright brothers – engineered the fire plane
Professor John Dewey – most revolutionary contribution to educational