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

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

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

“…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.”

The Wall Street

Bombing of 1920

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.”

1919: The Red ScareThe Palmer Raids or Red Raids

Goal: Hunt down suspected Communists, socialists & anarchists

- 6,300 arrested- 850 deported …U.S.S. Buford

USS Buford - “The Soviet Ark”

The results of raid…

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

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- The relationship to the Red Scare…

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The Red Scare Trade UnionismImmigrants Palmer Raids 100% Americanism Mitchell PalmerAfrican Americans Ku Klux KlanRadicals/ Communists Xenophobia

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.