Getting on with Business
The Red Scare, M&M Style
The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti resulted in the Red Scare. When people in America started becoming Communist, bombs started going off which killed important people in the government, it scared people, so A. Mitchell Palmer went and captured many communists to make the people feel safer. Although he only went around and captured a ton of immigrants. Very few of them were actually communists and they were eventually released. However the people still applauded him.
Prohibition
Prohibition was the ban of alcohol. This was supported by progressives who thought it made people delirious and dangerous. In 1919 it became an Amendment in the United States. Before it was ratified 3/4 of the population was 'dry' while the heavy immigrant cities remained 'wet'. The Amendment declared that any beverage containing more than half of 1% of alcohol was intoxicating.