Luigi Galleani

Fear “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”- H. P. Lovecraft. In the 1900’s, fear drove America. The Red Scare was a time when Americans were afraid of the threat of Communism. In the Sacco and Vanzetti case, two Italian anarchists were convicted of crimes which they were clearly innocent of. The Ku Klux Klan attempted to keep African-Americans out of positions of power and for brief time was successful. The Red Scare

Sacco and Vanzetti Following the end of World War I, evolution began to take its toll on the nation as a whole. There were different types of entertainment that began to emerge, at this time. Many different ways of being entertained started to become more prevalent than ever. America has now established new cultural dominance (Currell 35). With entertainment and many other industries booming with business and success, there was a tremendous increase in gang activities and gang relations. Along with

In the early 1920s’ America, threats of communism were everywhere. With the recent overthrow of the Russian ruler, panic started to set in. Americans were scared of this because the Communists showed how powerful they really were. Even though World War I in Germany ended, a new war started, turning in a new direction. It became a war against “... anything un-American - which in 1919 meant radical or red” (Palmer Raids). A communist party formed in the United States, reaching a peak of seventy thousand