Capitalism - an economic system in which private individuals or groups own the resources and produce goods for a profit.
Red Scare - a time when the federal government targeted suspected communists, anarchists, and radicals.
Radicals - people who hold extreme political views.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - organization dedicated to defending the individual rights and freedoms of all Americans.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) - organization dedicated to exsposing and countering the violence of extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan.
Important People
A. Mitchell Palmer Attorney General who obtained funding from Congress to establish a division in the Department of Justice to hunt for radicals, naming J. Edgar Hoover as its head.