USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was A. Mitchell Palmer?
A
Secretary of State during WWI.
B
President of the United States during WWI.
C
Attorney General of the United States during WWI.
D
General in charge of the Army during WWI.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 3, 000 arrested.

Detailed explanation-3: -The nation demanded a response to the bombings, and the Attorney General-who had his eye on the White House in 1920-was ready to oblige. Palmer created a small division to gather intelligence on the radical threat and placed a young Justice Department lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover in charge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Palmer Raids, also called Palmer Red Raids, raids conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 1919 and 1920 in an attempt to arrest foreign anarchists, communists, and radical leftists, many of whom were subsequently deported. The raids, fueled by social unrest following World War I, were led by Attorney General A.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mitchell Palmer, was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He is best known for overseeing the “Palmer Raids” during the Red Scare of 1919-20. an American post-Civil War secret society advocating white supremacy.

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