I need help on the palmer raids?

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i need facts quick about the palmer raids.facts that get to the point of this topic.can anyone help me from the gecko .please...all i know is this guy alexander mitchell palmer.that all i know. but i dont know about him that much.i would really thank yall for the help really, who can help or give straight facts about this characther.

Answer 1

in full ALEXANDER MITCHELL PALMER American lawyer, legislator, and U.S. attorney general (1919-21) whose highly publicized campaigns against suspected radicals touched off the so-called Red Scare of 1919-20.
A devoted Quaker from his youth, Palmer--later nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker"--was educated at Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1893, practiced law at Stroudsburg, Pa., and became active in state Democratic Party affairs. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1909-15) and played a prominent role in securing the Democratic presidential nomination for Woodrow Wilson in 1912. He ran for the Senate in 1914 but was defeated. Upon U.S. entry into World War I, Palmer was appointed alien property custodian. In 1919 he was named U.S. attorney general by President Wilson. During his two years at that post, he used the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 as a basis for launching an unprecedented campaign against political radicals, suspected dissidents, left-wing organizations, and aliens. He deported the self-avowed anarchist Emma Goldman and others suspected of subversive activities. On Jan. 2, 1920, government agents in 33 cities rounded up thousands of persons, many of whom were detained without charge for long periods. The disregard of basic civil liberties during the "Palmer raids," as they came to be known, drew widespread protest and ultimately discredited Palmer, who nevertheless justified his program as the only practical means of combating what he believed was a Bolshevik conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government. Although he lost the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920, Palmer remained active in the Democratic Party until his death, campaigning for, among others, presidential candidates Al Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Answer 2

1. Part of the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 -branches off from these laws
2. Controversial raids of 1918-1921 in which the attorney general named Palmer made on the radical left
3. conducted because the individuals involved were considered a section of anarchist groups who were disloyal and like poison in the lifeblood of the country
4. mania was rampant as innocents were sent into prison and some were murdered in the name of patriotism and democratic freedom
5. enlisted the help of J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI to carry out the government's purposes using the previous laws mentioned as a pretext to protecting the country drom the ravages of watever was foreign , namely immigration ,socialism and communism.

Answer 3

The anarchist and socialist movements of the time represented a threat to "law and order" with strikes, bombings and other unlawful activities. ... Thus the government decided to "purge" these movements of "outside agitators" and assigned Palmer the task of "cleaning up" the mess ... Palmer then assigned Hoover the task of actually making the raids.