First Red Scare

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The First Red Scare was a period of intense fear of radicalism and communism in the United States after World War I, marked by government crackdowns, widespread suspicion of immigrants, and restrictions on civil liberties.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf anti-communist campaign
historical period
political event
characterizedBy anti-immigrant sentiment
deportations of immigrants
fear of communism
fear of radicalism
government crackdowns on radicals
mass arrests
nativism
restrictions on civil liberties
suppression of labor movements
surveillance of political dissidents
country United States
endTime 1920
1921
followedBy Second Red Scare
linked to: McCarthyism
follows World War I
hasCause Bolshevik Revolution
linked to: Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1917
linked to: Russian Revolution

bombings by anarchists
fear of communism
labor unrest in the United States
postwar economic instability
hasEffect chilling effect on free speech
growth of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
increased public suspicion of immigrants
stigmatization of socialist and anarchist movements
strengthening of internal security apparatus in the United States
legalBasis Espionage Act of 1917
Sedition Act of 1918
immigration laws used to deport radicals
location United States
Washington, D.C.
major industrial cities in the United States
mainSubject anti-communism
civil liberties in the United States
immigration and nativism in the United States
radicalism
opposedBy American Civil Liberties Union
civil libertarians in the United States
partOf history of anti-communism in the United States
history of the United States
significantEvent 1919 anarchist bombings
Boston Police Strike
May Day 1920 bomb scare
Palmer Raids
Seattle General Strike
deportation of radicals on the "Soviet Ark" Buford
significantFigure A. Mitchell Palmer
Alexander Berkman
Emma Goldman
J. Edgar Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
startTime 1917
1919

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Communist Party USA historicalEra Red Scare
linked to: First Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer knownFor Red Scare of 1919–1920
linked to: First Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer movement First Red Scare
Jean Muir era Red Scare in the United States
linked to: First Red Scare
Return to Normalcy historicalContext Red Scare (1919–1920)
linked to: First Red Scare
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti historicalContext Red Scare in the United States
linked to: First Red Scare