Following the period rapid social change saw a worker 's uprising turn to a full scale revolution in Russia in 1917 taken over by Bolsheviks along anarchist bombings of 1919 by foreigners encroached a large fear over many citizens of a possible Bolshevism revolt to overthrow values which the United States holds up to mainly capitalism . It saw persecutions of many ideals of the progressive era seeing raids , arrests , and persecutions taken place . Such as the period saw supporters such as worker unions , socialist , and others faced similar prosecutions . Along these convicted were foreigners , African Americans , Jews , Catholics , etc . The US government was also affected both legally and internally as of January 1920 saw 6,000 arrests of persecutions along changes in government policies where the government in acted censorship in the media and suppressing opinion on the matter going as far to use physical assaults or legal arrests having certain civil liberties stripped
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