Red Scare and Palmer Raids

Italian immigrants/known anarchists. Found guilty in a swift decisive trial and put to death in an electric chair​ (a)  

• Sacco/Vanzetti Trial

• Scopes Trial

• Palmer Raids

• Red Scare

• Pandemic

What were the Palmer Raids?

• Raids used to find british anarchist

• Raids intended to find leftist, anarchist agitators for deportation

• Raids used to conduct secret missions

• Raids intended to find right-wing anarchists for deportation

Why did American public opinion turn against A. Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General behind the Palmer Raids?

• Radical violence was still happening

• Innocent American citizens were detained and deported

• Communists were elected to Congress

• He did not deport enough radical agitators

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Eugenics

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(b) Social Darwinism

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(c) Nativism

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(d) Red Scare

• Led to restricting immigration

• Led to Palmer Raids

• Fear of immigrants taking jobs from soldiers

• Survival of the fittest

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• Fear of the spread of communism

• Used to justify economic and social divisions

RED SCARE: Limiting the number of immigrants who may enter the US each year specifically from USSR and Italy.

• Quota plan

• Quota system

• Dawes Sytem

Striking American workers led to fears of a ​ (a)   revolution in the U.S. One way Congress reacted was to pass ​ (b)   laws because foreigners were equated with this threat.

• communist

• immigration

• democratic

• peaceful

• unconstitutional

What was the result of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's house being targeted by anarchist bombing?

• The federal government began tracking radical movements and organizations

• The police arrested the perpetrator

• A. Mitchell Palmer and his wife were killed, sparking public outcry

• The National Guard started a nationwide search for the culprit

What happened in 1919 that caused it to have the nickname "Red Summer"?

• Riots and bloodshed in Midwest cities

• The Black Sox Scandal

• Economic prosperity and growth in cities

• World War I

What was the Red Scare?

• A financial crisis in the US

• A military operation

• A celebration of communist ideologies

• A period of anticommunist hysteria during 1919 and 1920

What was the primary goal of the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare?

• To deport immigrants

• To suppress labor unions

• To capture and deport radical leftists

• To promote American culture