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Court Cases
Red Scare
Palmer Raids
An anarchist group delivered
bombs to prominent Americans,
and later was found out about a
May Day plan to deliver more
bombs and cause a rise in communism on May 1st.
The Department of Justice
deported over 500 leftist
radicals and anarchists to
strike down communism.
Sacco & Venzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo
Vanzetti were convicted to death
for killing 2 men in a robbery for
$15,000. While there was little
evidence, they were still executed
as the Red Scare carried the anarchists to their deaths.
Schenck vs.
United States
The Supreme Court passed the “clear
and present danger” test to see if a
state could limit a person’s freedom
of speech. While this was later overturned, Schenck is still famous for
courts making context based decisions.