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The First Red Scare

Alec Cassidy, Josh Shipley, Corey Auerbach

Summary

SUMMARY

  • Large scale fear of Bolshevism and anarchism in the early 20th century
  • Fueled by the supposed spread of communism in the American labor movement
  • Anarchist groups were sending bombs to people high up in the government
  • Due to fear, many people were illegally searched, arrested for no reason, and eventually deported

Causes

  • Fears of communism due to Communist takeover in Russia (Russian Revolution)
  • Turned from anti-German hysteria into anti-Communist hysteria (war propaganda)
  • Fear that Russian immigrants came to U.S to establish a communist gov
  • Labor unions caused fear of a revolution

CAUSES

Palmer Raids

PALMER

RAIDS

  • Series of unexplained bombings
  • Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer created an office to research radicals
  • Ordered mass arrests of socialists, anarchists, and labor agitators
  • From November 1919 through January 1920 over 6,000 people were arrested based on almost no evidence
  • Most suspects were foreign (Eastern Europe)
  • 500 people were deported
  • Palmer lost credibility after warning of huge riots that never came
  • Caused hysteria to decline

MITCHELL PALMER

Political Cartoon

http://americainclass.org/sources/becomingmodern/divisions/text8/politicalcartoonsrs.pdf

CARTOON

Newman, John J., and John M. Schmalbach. United States History. Perfection Learning, 2018.

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