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1919: The Red Scare Communists take over in Russia & threaten world revolution… 1919 - Communist Party forms in U.S. Government & business leaders bombed.

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1 1919: The Red Scare Communists take over in Russia & threaten world revolution… 1919 - Communist Party forms in U.S. Government & business leaders bombed Americans panic

2 Attorney General Palmer’s home in Washington D.C. was bombed…

3 “…one in a series of coordinated attacks that day on judges, politicians, law enforcement officials, and others in eight cities nationwide. About a month earlier, radicals had also mailed bombs to the mayor of Seattle and a U.S. Senator, blowing the hands off the senator’s domestic worker. The next day, a postal worker in New York City intercepted 16 more packages addressed to political and business leaders, including John D. Rockefeller.”

4 The Wall Street Bombing of 1920

5 Attorney General Mitchell Palmer… “…revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order…eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat…licking the altars of the churches leaping into the belfry of the schools bell, crawling into the sacred corners of American homes… burning up the foundations of society.”

6 1919: The Red Scare The Palmer Raids or Red Raids Goal: Hunt down suspected Communists, socialists & anarchists - 6,300 arrested - 850 deported …U.S.S. Buford

7 USS Buford - “The Soviet Ark”

8 The results of raid…

9 Legacy of the Red Scare Constitutional rights violated Innocent people deported Fuels nativism & intolerance Fuels anti-unionism The abuse of government power

10 Identify… - The symbolism being used… - The meaning being conveyed… - The relationship to the Red Scare…

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23 The Red Scare Trade Unionism Immigrants Palmer Raids 100% Americanism Mitchell Palmer African Americans Ku Klux Klan Radicals/ CommunistsXenophobia History is a story and your group is going to tell a factually based story about a fearful time in America. Step 1: 9 Groups of 3... Count off by 3 Step 2: Use the terms below to create a factual summary. Ideally the summary should demonstrate an interconnecting relationship between the terms. Determine the best order of the terms to tell the story.. Step 3: Each person is responsible for explaining one term and relating the term to the story.


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