Please take out a half sheet of
paper!
DBQ Test tomorrow- to prepare:
Agenda
• Check-in’s
• FF Quiz
• The Palmer Raids: intro and
inquiry
Objectives
• What caused the Palmer
Raids?
Espionage Act
• Technically, the Sedition
Act was added on to an
already created law, the
Espionage Act
• The Sedition Act was
repealed in December
1920. The Espionage Act
remains in effect today,
and most recently has
been invoked to charge
Chelsea Manning in 2010
and Edward Snowden in
2013
Capitalism/
Laissez faire
Socialism
Communism
Note on vocab for inquiry:
Bolshevism= similar to Communism
Check for Understanding: In the early 1900s,
increasing amounts of people in the United States
believed in socialism. Why?
• Hint: think about the
Market Revolution/ the
Gilded Age
• Industrialization  wealth
gap
• Labor Union organization.
IWW, the International
Workers of the World
• 1917- Russian, or Bolshevik
Revolution
• Anarchism
What were the Palmer Raids? What
caused them?
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nOzlo8g
SlQ
The End of the First Red Scare
• The First Red Scare was short starting in 1918, ending after the May Day
scare of 1920
The Boston American on May 4, 1920:
“Everybody is laughing at A. Mitchell Palmer’s May Day "revolution." The
joke is certainly on A. Mitchell Palmer, but the matter is not wholly a joke.
The spectacle of a Cabinet officer going around surrounded with armed
guards because he is afraid of his own hand-made bogey is a sorry one,
even though it appeals to the humor of Americans. Of course, the terrible
"revolution" did not come off. Nobody with a grain of sense supposed that
it would. Yet, in spite of universal laughter, the people are seriously
disgusted with these official Red scares. They cost the taxpayers thousands
of dollars spent in assembling soldiers and policemen and in paying wages
and expenses to Mr. Palmer's agents. They help to frighten capital and
demoralize business, and to make timid men and women jumpy and
nervous.”
Intolerance in the 1920s
• However, the 1920s continued to be a time of intolerance
in many ways
• Sacco and Vanzetti—two Italian anarchists were arrested in
1920 from robbery and murder. The evidence was very
sketchy and many have argued that their trial was
extremely unfair but they were executed in 1927.
• KKK membership exploded—at its peak in 1924 it had 4
million members.
• National Origins Act of 1924 severely restricted immigration
by setting quotas and limited the number of immigrants
from Southern and Eastern Europe (favoring immigrants
from Northwest Europe).
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Recent lessons:
Progressivism
Jim Crow
The Sedition Act
The Palmer Raids.
Assess the United States’ democracy at this
time.