USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

MCCARTHYISM AND THE RED SCARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This man was the Attorney General in 1919 and 1920
A
Herbert Hoover
B
Warren G. Harding
C
A. Mitchell Palmer
D
J. Edgar Hoover
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 – May 11, 1936), was an American attorney and politician who served as the 50th United States attorney general from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–20. White Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S. Washington, D.C., U.S.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872–1936), a lawyer, politician, and attorney general of the United States after World War I, is remembered for directing the notorious “Palmer raids, ” a series of mass roundups and arrests by federal agents of radicals and political dissenters suspected of subversion.

Detailed explanation-3: -The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, was created in 1920 as a direct result of the Palmer Raids.

Detailed explanation-4: -He was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Wilson on March 5, 1919, and remained until March 5, 1921. At the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco in 1920, Palmer received 267 nominating votes for President. He died on May 11, 1936 in Washington, D.C. The artist was born in Russia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.

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