THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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to spark a communist revolution
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to round up suspected radicals, communists, and immigrants.
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to end the wave of postwar strikes
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to stop governmental abuse of civil liberties
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer launch a series of raids against suspected Communists? He believed that a Communist revolution was imminent in the United States, and he needed an issue on which to campaign for the 1920 Democratic presidential nomination.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States. The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.