Harding, elected at the end of the year, struck a conciliatory note amid a general sense that things had got a bit crazy and released many imprisoned radicals on Christmas Day in 1921.
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The AFL labor union tried to discourage police strikes, and a series of court cases released agitators. Edgar Hoover, then boss of the General Intelligence Division, and attorney general Mitchell Palmer made dire predictions of an imminent communist revolution that conspicuously failed to come to pass. In response, at the end of the year were the two Palmer Raids, in which 10,000 alleged subversives were rounded up this led to the foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union. A series of anarchist bombings targeted business leaders and government officials. There were also race riots in cities from Chicago to Arizona. January 1919 saw a general strike in Seattle, the first of several major strikes across the country through the year including the Boston Police Strike on May Day, there was violence in Boston, Cleveland, and elsewhere between leftists, police, and far-right "patriot" organisations.
During the war, a series of draconian laws were implemented that restricted civil liberties, including the 1917 Espionage Act and the Sedition Act and Immigration Act in 1918. This made American society's more conservative members fearful of communist revolution. Red-baiting was a very popular tactic during the American Red Scares, beginning with the First Red Scare in the aftermath of World War One when the recent Russian Revolution combined with growing demands for workers' rights and opposition to American imperialism and militarism connected with the recent war.
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