Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921
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Who was Joe Hill?
American labor songwriter who was executed in Salt Lake City, Utah
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What does the Communist Party's flag look like?
red flag with a gold hammer and sickle
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What is communism?
a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism that was the official ideology of the U.S.S.R.; a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production
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What is Mitchell Palmer most known for?
He is best known for overseeing the Palmer Raids during the Red Scare of 1919–1920
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What were some of the things Joe Hill did while a part of the IWW?
he was active in free speech fights in Fresno and San Diego; participated in a strike of railroad construction workers in British Columbia; fought in the Mexican Revolution
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List 3 current communist countries
China, Cuba, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam
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a person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power
an anarchist
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What are Palmer's two main beliefs
Communism was an imminent threat and the Bolsheviks had to be deported
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What was the goal of the IWW?
sought to organize workers (who were unskilled, migrants, immigrants, minorities, etc.) in an effort to combine the entire working class into one big union.
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Who was president of the U.S when the IWW was created (1905)?
Theodore Roosevelt
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a Marxist revolutionary and theorist, a Soviet politician who engineered the transfer of all political power to the Soviets with the October Revolution of 1917, and the founding leader of the Red Army
Leon Trotsky
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Who did Palmer believe made up the communist organizations in America?
He believed that the communism in America was present because of the organizations of thousands of aliens who were direct allies of Trotzky
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Why was Joe Hill arrested? Why was his arrest such a big deal?
Joe was accused of murdering a store owner while attempting to rob him in Salt Lake City. He was convicted and sentenced to death. There was no hard evidence to back the conviction, and the driving force of his being sentenced was that he was a part of the IWW.
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Where was the IWW founded?
Chicago
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a political party in the United States, established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America; it has a long, complex history that is closely tied with the U.S. labor movement
Communist Party of America
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What did Palmer think would happen to the U.S if the radicals won?
There would be no U.S government; there would be horror and terrorism of Bolshevik tyranny; citizens would be obedient to the instincts of criminal minds; the decencies of private life would be overthrown
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What was the role of music during this time frame? How did the IWW use music?
"...the IWW took the music and poetry to new heights and cleverly used singing and chanting as a way to garner attention from workers, the media, and the authorities. Fifty workers singing makes a lot more noise at a rally or in a jail cell than one speaker on a soapbox or one person ranting in the joint."