Fear of foreign terrorists and radicalism led to the ______________ at the end of the 1910s.

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The First Red Scare was a period of time in the United States in the late 1910s characterized by a fear of foreign anarchists, immigrants, and radicalism. This fear was heightened by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 and by a series of bombings in American cities in 1919. The government responded by passing laws to restrict immigration and by using the newly-formed FBI to arrest suspected radicals.

Fear of Foreign Terrorists and Radicalism Led to the ______________