The Palmer Raids

• A consequence of the Red Scare and the outburst in American people it brought was the Palmer raids.

  General Palmer set up the general intelligence division (now known more commonly as the FBI)
• J Edgar Hoover put in charge.

  The raids were created to spy on + arrest radical groups who were convicted of trying to promote communism/left wing analogies
• • 1920-33 raids on any radicals

  Could be seen as very racists of political powers (Not every person who had anarchist views was extremist, and anarchy in itself was not unlawful)

  Freedom was taken away
• 600 people were deported from the USA - bad living conditions in prisons (thousands of arrests)

  In the long term, there was:

  1. Fear of different ideologies
  2. warn of (fake) communist protests.