HIS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Teapot Dome Scandal, Universal Negro Improvement Association And African Communities League, Herbert Hoover
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With these strikes, government started siding with businesses. Strikes caused a red scare across the nation. Everything that happened in the soviet union was starring to happen in the us. Things heightened when bombs were delivered to their houses in the mail: attorney general palmer was going to bring a stop to this communist uprising , palmer raids suspected communists were rounded up and arrested, anti-immigrant hysteria. The palmer raids and red scare brought about cries to close off our borders and protect. Immigrant anarchists who were charged with murder and sentenced to be executed. But doubts about the evidence: believed that witnesses lied under oath, police tampered w evidence, the judge called the two anarchist bastards . Election of 1920: republican candidate-warren g harding. The way things were before the war. Ran on a pro-business campaign (lower taxes, lower government spending) More of a lazier faire type government again. The economy eventually did rise up during the harding administration.
