1919 Flashcards | Quizlet On March 21, 1947, President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) issued Executive Order 9835, also known as the Loyalty Order, which mandated that all federal employees be analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government. Freedom of speech does not apply if the words spoken represent a 'clear and present danger' to the security of the USA. Find History on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Find History on Twitter (Opens in a new window), Find History on YouTube (Opens in a new window), Find History on Instagram (Opens in a new window), Find History on TikTok (Opens in a new window), Getty Images / American Stock Archive / Contributor, Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee, Soviet Union successfully tested a nuclear bomb, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/red-scare. Federal employees were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government, and the House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as U.S. The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. Grandpa _________ that land for fifty years. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". In Chicago, the states attorney and the police chief believed Palmer had tipped off local targets and thought rounding them up a day early was the only way to achieve the desired arrests. In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, in a speech before Congress. Other devices detonated in Boston, Cleveland and Philadelphia. In the spring of 1919, a series of bombs targeting government and law enforcement officials were discovered. The Red Scare. Justice Department agents conducted raids in 33 cities, resulting in the arrest of 3,000 people. What did the government introduce after The First Red Scare? While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Palmer believed that the way to deal with the radicals was to deport the immigrants. A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution and anarchist bombings. Post invalidated well over 1,500 deportations. E. revealed that Germans were attempting to foment a race riot in the American South. The most important government response was the beginning of the Palmer Raids. Later in the month, the office of Seattle mayor Ole Hanson received a mail bomb sent from New York City that failed to explode. This scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. What caused the First Red Scare? This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Local authorities lacked the facilities to hold the arrestees from the January raids, and Palmer sent a large number of suspected radicals to the Bureau of Immigration for deportation. The very same day, a bomb exploded in front of Palmers home in Washington, D.C. Palmer raids were a series of violent and abusive law-enforcement raids directed at leftist radicals and anarchists in 1919 and 1920, beginning during a period of unrest known as the Red Summer. Named after Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with assistance from J. Edgar Hoover, the raids and subsequent deportations proved disastrous and sparked a vigorous debate about constitutional rights.