The crackdown that came to be known as the Red Scare was the enforcement of which legislation?

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The Red Scare was a period of intense anti-communist hysteria that swept the United States in the 1920s and again in the 1950s. The enforcement of the Red Scare in the 1950s was largely due to the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918, which were used to suppress dissent and target suspected communists and other radicals. The Smith Act of 1940 and the Internal Security Act of 1950 were also used to suppress communism, but the Espionage and Sedition Acts were the primary legislation used during the Red Scare. The Communist Control Act of 1954 was passed during the Red Scare period but was more of a symbolic act that did not have significant enforcement measures.

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