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Palmer Raids

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The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected radical leftists, especially anarchists, and deport them from the United States. [1]

101 relations: A. Mitchell Palmer, Agent provocateur, Alien (law), American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil War, Anarchism, Ansonia, Connecticut, Bolsheviks, Boston, Boston Police Strike, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Brockton, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Camden, New Jersey, Chelsea, Massachusetts, Chester, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Chicopee, Massachusetts, Claremont, New Hampshire, Cleveland, Communist Labor Party of America, Democratic Party (United States), Denver, Derry, New Hampshire, Des Moines, Iowa, Detroit, East St. Louis, Illinois, Edward W. Pou, Ernst Freund, Espionage Act of 1917, Felix Frankfurter, First Red Scare, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Flyer (pamphlet), Freedom of speech, Gardner, Massachusetts, George Weston Anderson, Hartford, Connecticut, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Holyoke, Massachusetts, Hyphenated American, Immigration Act of 1918, Impeachment, J. Edgar Hoover, Josephus Daniels, Kansas City, Kansas, Lawrence, Massachusetts, Left-wing politics, Letter bomb, ..., Lincoln, New Hampshire, Los Angeles, Louis F. Post, Lowell, Massachusetts, Luigi Galleani, Manchester, Connecticut, Manchester, New Hampshire, May Day, Meriden, Connecticut, Milwaukee, Nashua, New Hampshire, New Haven, Connecticut, New London, Connecticut, New York City, Norwood, Massachusetts, Omaha, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Portland, Oregon, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, President of the United States, Quakers, Racine, Wisconsin, Red Summer, Rockford, Illinois, Roscoe Pound, Russian Revolution, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background, Saint Paul, Minnesota, San Francisco, Seattle General Strike, Spokane, Washington, Springfield, Massachusetts, The Nation, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Thomas W. Hardwick, Toledo, Ohio, Union of Russian Workers, United Mine Workers, United States Department of Justice, United States Department of Labor, United States House Committee on Appropriations, Waterbury, Connecticut, William Bauchop Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Worcester, Massachusetts, World War I, Youngstown, Ohio, Zechariah Chafee, 1919 United States anarchist bombings. Expand index (51 more) »

A. Mitchell Palmer

Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 – May 11, 1936), best known as A. Mitchell Palmer, was United States Attorney General from 1919 to 1921.

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Agent provocateur

An agent provocateur (French for "inciting agent") is a person who commits, or who acts to entice another person to commit an illegal or rash act or falsely implicate them in partaking in an illegal act.

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Alien (law)

In law, an alien is a person who is not a national of a given country, though definitions and terminology differ to some degree.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy that advocates self-governed societies based on voluntary institutions.

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Ansonia, Connecticut

Ansonia is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, on the Naugatuck River, immediately north of Derby, and about northwest of New Haven.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Boston Police Strike

In the Boston Police Strike, Boston police officers went on strike on September 9, 1919.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Bridgewater is a town located in Plymouth County, in the state of Massachusetts, United States.

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Brockton, Massachusetts

Brockton is a city in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States; the population was 95,314 in the 2015 Census.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Camden, New Jersey

Camden is a city in Camden County, New Jersey.

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Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea is a city in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, directly across the Mystic River from the city of Boston.

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Chester, Pennsylvania

Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chicopee, Massachusetts

Chicopee is a city located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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Claremont, New Hampshire

Claremont is the only city in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Communist Labor Party of America

The Communist Labor Party of America (CLP) was one of the organizational predecessors of the Communist Party USA.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Derry, New Hampshire

Derry is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Des Moines, Iowa

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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East St. Louis, Illinois

East St.

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Edward W. Pou

Edward William Pou /ˈpjuː/ (September 9, 1863 – April 1, 1934), was an American politician, serving in the United States Congress as a representative from 1901 until his death in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 1934.

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Ernst Freund

Ernst Freund (January 30, 1864 in New York City – October 20, 1932 in Chicago, Illinois) was a noted American legal scholar.

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Espionage Act of 1917

The Espionage Act of 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years.

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Felix Frankfurter

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882February 22, 1965) was an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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First Red Scare

The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings.

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Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Fitchburg is the third largest city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Flyer (pamphlet)

A flyer is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution and typically posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail.

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Freedom of speech

Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.

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Gardner, Massachusetts

Gardner is a city in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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George Weston Anderson

George Weston Anderson (September 1, 1861 – February 14, 1938) was a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill is a hilly and historic city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Holyoke, Massachusetts

Holyoke is a city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, that lies between the western bank of the Connecticut River and the Mount Tom Range.

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Hyphenated American

In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word "American" in compound nouns.

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Immigration Act of 1918

The United States Immigration Act of 1918 (ch. 186) was enacted on October 16, 1918.

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Impeachment

Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body formally levels charges against a high official of government.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.

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Josephus Daniels

Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was a progressive Democrat, and newspaper editor and publisher from North Carolina who became active in politics.

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Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the State of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Lawrence, Massachusetts

Lawrence is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River.

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Left-wing politics

Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.

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Letter bomb

A letter bomb, also called parcel bomb, mail bomb, package bomb, note bomb, message bomb, gift bomb, present bomb, delivery bomb, surprise bomb, postal bomb, or post bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed with the intention to injure or kill the recipient when opened.

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Lincoln, New Hampshire

Lincoln is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louis F. Post

Louis Freeland Post (November 15, 1849 - January 11, 1928) was a prominent Georgist and the Assistant United States Secretary of Labor during the closing year of the Wilson administration, the period of the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare, where he had responsibility for the Bureau of Immigration.

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Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Luigi Galleani

Luigi Galleani (August 12, 1861 – November 4, 1931) was an Italian anarchist active in the United States from 1901 to 1919, viewed by historians as an insurrectionary anarchist.

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Manchester, Connecticut

Manchester is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the largest city in northern New England, an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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May Day

May Day is a public holiday usually celebrated on 1 May.

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Meriden, Connecticut

Meriden is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, located halfway between the regional cities of New Haven and Hartford.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Nashua, New Hampshire

Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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New London, Connecticut

New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norwood, Massachusetts

Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Racine, Wisconsin

Racine is a city in and the county seat of Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Red Summer

The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919, which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of racial riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county.

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Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, the 171st most populous city in the United States, the largest city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area, and the city of the 148th most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

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Roscoe Pound

Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was a distinguished American legal scholar and educator.

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Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background

Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background is a 1996 history book by Paul Avrich about Sacco and Vanzetti with a special emphasis on anarchist sources.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Seattle General Strike

The Seattle General Strike of 1919 was a five-day general work stoppage by more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, which lasted from February 6 to February 11 of that year.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is a city in the state of Washington in the northwestern United States.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is a city in western New England, and the historical seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New Republic

The New Republic is a liberal American magazine of commentary on politics and the arts, published since 1914, with influence on American political and cultural thinking.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Thomas W. Hardwick

Thomas William Hardwick (December 9, 1872January 31, 1944) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States.

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Union of Russian Workers

The Union of Russian Workers in the United States and Canada, commonly known as the "Union of Russian Workers" (Союз Русских Рабочих, Soiuz Russkikh Rabochikh) was an anarchist political association of Russian emigrants in the United States.

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United Mine Workers

The United Mine Workers of America (UMW or UMWA) is a North American labor union best known for representing coal miners.

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United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the U.S. government, responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. The Department of Justice administers several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The department is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the United States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Jeff Sessions.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

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United States House Committee on Appropriations

The United States House Committee on Appropriations is a committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury (nicknamed "The Brass City") is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut on the Naugatuck River, 33 miles southwest of Hartford and 77 miles northeast of New York City.

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William Bauchop Wilson

William Bauchop Wilson (April 2, 1862 – May 25, 1934) was a Scottish-born American labor leader and progressive politician.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester is a city and the county seat of Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Youngstown, Ohio

Youngstown is a city in and the county seat of Mahoning County in the U.S. state of Ohio, with small portions extending into Trumbull County.

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Zechariah Chafee

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957), was an American professor of law, judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate.

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1919 United States anarchist bombings

The 1919 United States anarchist bombings were a series of bombings and attempted bombings carried out by anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani from April through June 1919.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Raids

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