The Red Scare:1920 The Red Scare of 1920, starting in the middle of the first world war and ending about three years after. It was the wide spread panic across America, the fear of communism mixed with political racism. The Red Scare started from different causes, including the Bolshevik Revolution and World War one, the growing fear of immigration, radical and the socialist party, many different people played large and important roles.
Another main cause is the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolshevik became disinterested in the great war and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1918, taking them out of the conflict. The United States saw this separate peace treaty as a betrayal. This result was the idea that the Bolshevik, in the American mind, was the epitome of evil. On the other hand, some Americans sought sympathy for the Bolsheviks, creating American Radicals for the Russian Revolution. In September 1919, two domestic, American communist parties were created. They held parades and meetings, distributing leaflets and literature that issued revolutionary manifestoes, which called for action.
One more cause for the Red Scare is the many acts and legislation that were passed. Espionage Act of 1917 was one of the many, it covered much lesser disloyal activity. It also made it possible that one could be fined for ten thousand dollars and up to twenty years in jail for insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, and refusal of duty in the American Navy. Another act is the Sedition Act of 1918. This act prohibited anyone to write, print, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States and Congress. In October 1918, the Alien Act decreed that all aliens who were anarchists or believed in the violent overthrow of the United States government, were excluded from becoming United States Citizens. Anyone who would violate this law would not only be excluded from citizenship, but would also be deported. A mix of other reasons for the Red Scare were the immigrants, radicals, and socialists. …show more content…
One American radical created the majority of the drama, it was one’s philosophy and action that much of the scare revolved around. By 1919 American radicals had already engendered much suspicion and fear for other reasons, particularly for their violent and uncompromising opposition to the war. No organization could possibly contain them. Some were Marxists in belief, emphasizing either the revolutionary or the evolutionary phase of that doctrine. Some were anarchists and some were syndicalist who desired direct economic action through the use of the industrial union. Two organizations which had succeeded in unifying the radical movement to some extent, these the nation was most familiar with. One was the Socialist Party, the other was the Industrial Workers of the World. Out of the two, the Socialist Party was the most important. The Socialist Party was created in 1901. It opposed to force and violence and placed primary emphasis on legal political pressure to reach success. They believed opportunistic in its application of the Marxist theory, they often leagued themselves with the conservative trade union movement. At the beginning it contained less than ten thousand members, it increased to slightly more than one hundred thousand members by 1912. In the same year garnered eight hundred ninety-seven thousand votes for its presidential candidate, Eugene Debs. Because of the war, the party stopped moving forward. The general public announced their hatred for these nonconformist, calling them spies or pro-German and that they wanted the enemy to win. Not only did the socialist have difficulty with the public, but also with the government and the courts. Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, was a large radical organization. They had an extremely aggressive police because of their willingness to combine words with their deeds. IWW had very important qualities, some being that it represented the variety of anarchists, general strike advocates, direct-action Socialists, and syndicalist. It was a protest against the conservative craft unionism of the AFL. The IWW also had beliefs such as political activity and violence. People had called them “agents of
Another main cause is the Bolshevik revolution. The Bolshevik became disinterested in the great war and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany in 1918, taking them out of the conflict. The United States saw this separate peace treaty as a betrayal. This result was the idea that the Bolshevik, in the American mind, was the epitome of evil. On the other hand, some Americans sought sympathy for the Bolsheviks, creating American Radicals for the Russian Revolution. In September 1919, two domestic, American communist parties were created. They held parades and meetings, distributing leaflets and literature that issued revolutionary manifestoes, which called for action.
One more cause for the Red Scare is the many acts and legislation that were passed. Espionage Act of 1917 was one of the many, it covered much lesser disloyal activity. It also made it possible that one could be fined for ten thousand dollars and up to twenty years in jail for insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, and refusal of duty in the American Navy. Another act is the Sedition Act of 1918. This act prohibited anyone to write, print, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States and Congress. In October 1918, the Alien Act decreed that all aliens who were anarchists or believed in the violent overthrow of the United States government, were excluded from becoming United States Citizens. Anyone who would violate this law would not only be excluded from citizenship, but would also be deported. A mix of other reasons for the Red Scare were the immigrants, radicals, and socialists. …show more content…
One American radical created the majority of the drama, it was one’s philosophy and action that much of the scare revolved around. By 1919 American radicals had already engendered much suspicion and fear for other reasons, particularly for their violent and uncompromising opposition to the war. No organization could possibly contain them. Some were Marxists in belief, emphasizing either the revolutionary or the evolutionary phase of that doctrine. Some were anarchists and some were syndicalist who desired direct economic action through the use of the industrial union. Two organizations which had succeeded in unifying the radical movement to some extent, these the nation was most familiar with. One was the Socialist Party, the other was the Industrial Workers of the World. Out of the two, the Socialist Party was the most important. The Socialist Party was created in 1901. It opposed to force and violence and placed primary emphasis on legal political pressure to reach success. They believed opportunistic in its application of the Marxist theory, they often leagued themselves with the conservative trade union movement. At the beginning it contained less than ten thousand members, it increased to slightly more than one hundred thousand members by 1912. In the same year garnered eight hundred ninety-seven thousand votes for its presidential candidate, Eugene Debs. Because of the war, the party stopped moving forward. The general public announced their hatred for these nonconformist, calling them spies or pro-German and that they wanted the enemy to win. Not only did the socialist have difficulty with the public, but also with the government and the courts. Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, was a large radical organization. They had an extremely aggressive police because of their willingness to combine words with their deeds. IWW had very important qualities, some being that it represented the variety of anarchists, general strike advocates, direct-action Socialists, and syndicalist. It was a protest against the conservative craft unionism of the AFL. The IWW also had beliefs such as political activity and violence. People had called them “agents of