These were assaults ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer on suspected radicals after World War 1 They were controversial

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These were assaults ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer on suspected radicals after World War 1 They were controversial because of the lack of evidence that was needed to carry them out This act made the use of disloyal profane scurrilous or abusive language about the United States government its flag or its armed forces illegal This was a 1917 Act passed after entering World War I that made it a crime to pass information that would interfere with the success of the US Armed Forces This was a secret society organized in the South after the Civil War to reassert white supremacy by means of terrorism fell from prominence after Reconstruction but was reborn in the 1920s and remained powerful through the 1960s This was the period after each world war which saw massive upheaval in the U S and fear of many foreigners It was characterized by widespread fears of Communist influence on U S society and Communist infiltration of the U S government Palmer Raids Ku Klux Klan Sedition Act Red Scare

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