Progressive and conservative Americans believed that labor activism was a menace to American society and must be squelched. The hatchetman against American radicals was President Wilson's Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer. Palmer was determined that no Bolshevik Revolution would happen in the United States.

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Identify the challenges that the United States faced following the conclusion of World War I
Explain Warren G. Harding’s landslide victory in the 1920 presidential election