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History, 25.03.2021 20:10 ellettm

Read the excerpt from "The Case Against the Reds," an essay by US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Then
answer the questions that follow.
How did Congress respond to concerns such as those
expressed in the essay?
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A. It passed the Dawes Act and the National
Security Act.
B. It passed the Espionage Act and the Sedition
Act.
C. It passed the War Powers Act.
D. It passed the McCarran Act.
Like a prairie-fire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping
over every American institution of law and order a year
ago. It was eating its way into the homes of the American
workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat were
licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of
the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of
American
ican homes, seeking to replace marriage vows with
libertine laws, burning up the foundations of society.
Robbery, not war, is the ideal of communism. This has
been demonstrated in Russia, Germany, and in America.
As a foe, the anarchist is fearless of his own life, for his
creed is a fanaticism that admits no respect of any other
creed. Obviously it is the creed of any criminal mind, which
reasons always from motives impossible to clean thought.
Crime is the degenerate factor in society.
Upon these two basic certainties, first that "Reds" were
criminal aliens, and secondly that the American
government must prevent crime, it was decided that there
could be mense distinctions dirawn between the theoretical

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