Daily Quiz for April 28, 2008

Political and labor agitators. On January 2, 1920, some 2,700 arrests were made in raids in 33 American cities as part of a campaign against political radicals and labor agitators spearheaded by the Department of Justice under A. Mitchell Palmer. The Palmer Raids were in reaction to the so-called "Red Scare" that followed the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the founding in 1919 of the Worker’s Party (later Communist Party) in the U.S. Mass arrests of political and labor leaders and agitators began in the fall of 1919 and ended in May of 1920.