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A. Mitchell Palmer

Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare; he was nicknamed the "Fighting Quaker" until a bomb destroyed his home; he then had a nervous breakdown and became known as the "Quaking Fighter."

Subject: 
US History [1]
Vocabulary: 
Chapter 34 - American Life in the "Roaring Twenties" [2]

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