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Palmer raids  

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  • The emotional pitch of World War I did not abate with the armistice. Dislocation caused by a return to the peacetime economy, rampant inflation, unemployment, massive and violent strikes, exaggerated and hysterical headlines, and brutal race riots contributed to a sense of fear and foreboding in 1919. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Palmer Raids]

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