foreign political radicals in the U.S. Aided by J. Edgar Hoover‚ the head of the Justice Department‚ the Red Scare developed into a “series of raids on radical groups‚ often without either search or arrest warrants.” The Red Scare had a conflict of interests from Palmer‚ who had been personally attacked by prolabor factions. In an article to justify his raids‚ he stated “It is my belief that while they have stirred discontent in our midst‚ while they have caused irritating strikes‚ and while they have
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It was November 18‚ 1918‚ the day WWI had officially ended. The last cry of help had been heard and peace was supposedly coming to the United States or it had seemed. An ideological war which prompted mass paranoia had caused‚ among many other things‚ what would be known as the Red Scare (****). The Red Scare was the label given to the actions of legislation‚ the race riots‚ and the hatred and persecution of "subversives" and conscientious objectors during that period of time. The purpose of this
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Wendell Holmes‚ US Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer‚ and immigration officials. On 2 June 1919‚ in eight cities‚ eight bombs simultaneously exploded at the same hour. One target was the Washington‚ D.C.‚ house of US Attorney General Palmer‚ where the explosion killed the bomber‚ whom evidence indicated was an Italian-American radical from Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania. Afterwards‚ Palmer ordered the US Justice Department to launch the Palmer Raids (1919–21) — executed by J. Edgar Hoover‚ who instructed
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Red Scare The Red Scare of 1919 was the first of two major periods in American History when fear of radicalism culminated in the persecution and deportation of Americans thought to be radicals (communists‚ anarchists‚ or socialists). An unprecedented event‚ the Red Scare of 1919 exhibits how popular suppression and fear of radicalism can have disastrous consequences. The causes of the Red Scare are numerous and varied‚ however‚ one of the most important factors that contributed to the scare was
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Most Americans view the Roaring 1920s as a decade of speakeasies‚ bootleg liquor‚ flapper girls‚ and the Charleston. Without a doubt‚ the 1920s was the most repressive decade of the 20th Century. It was a decade marked in the beginning by the Palmer Raids of 1919 and at the end with the massacre of the Bonus Marchers in the midst of the Great Depression. Perhaps the misunderstanding about the 1920s is because the American psyche recalls only the "apple pie" culture of repressive times. As a society
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The main leader of this state of hysteria was A. Mitchell Palmer‚ President Wilson ’s Attorney General. Palmer feared that communist agents were trying to infiltrate the US government. Palmer believed that most of the threat came from those who were not natural born Americans. "Fully 90 percent of the Communist and Anarchist agitation is traceable to aliens." Through the use of the Espionage Act
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Migrants Arriving in the "Land of Promise‚" 1901 Immigrants journeying to America by boat take in fresh air above deck. The vast majority of immigrants had to travel in the steerage class—dark‚ cramped below-deck quarters. The shipping companies that sold passengers steerage listed them as cargo on ship manifests. Many steerage passengers tried to escape the stifling conditions below deck by staying above deck Images http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ImagesDetailsPage/ImagesDetailsWindow?tota
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Mitchell Palmer (February 1920) Written by US Attorney General‚ A. Mitchell Palmer on February 1920‚ “The Case Against the Reds” expresses an explanation regarding the need for raids and deportation of the “reds.” The article consists of reasons to why it is the US’ “duty” to deport or exclude the Soviets from American lands. Furthermore‚ A. Mitchell Palmer attempts to persuade the reader against the Soviets. This document is of
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How far was the USA intolerant in the 1920’s? The roaring 20’s was a period of economic boom and prosperity‚ but there was a darker underside to this. American society was undergoing vast changes in the early twentieth century. The world was changing and America was not to be left behind. In the past America had been a very intolerant society with slavery being one of its key industries and although it operated a ‘melting pot’ open door policy was the white‚ Anglo Saxon‚ Protestant (W.A.S.P)
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arrested without warrants because of some imaginary “worldwide communist conspiracy.” The Palmer Raids were parts of the Red Scare. In 1919 and 1920‚ led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer‚ federal agents “raided the office of radical and labor organizations throughout the country.” (4) The main targets of these acts were socialists and immigrant labor organizations. The Red Scare ended quickly as Palmer took criticism from Congress and public‚ however‚ the damage to the labor unions was repairable
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