THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S
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Weeding out groups who were attempting to take down the United States.
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Taking down anybody who was a supporter of Woodrow Wilson.
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Protecting people’s freedom of speech.
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Taking away people’s freedom of speech during and directly after WWI.
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -He was elected to Congress in 1908 and served three terms in the House of Representatives. He supported women’s suffrage, the abolition of child labor, and tariff reform. In 1912, he played an important role at the Democratic National Convention, helping to nominate Woodrow Wilson for president.
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: -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.