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President Woodrew Wilson. He appointed A. Mitchell Palmer as his general. Once appointed Mitchell changed his ideas about civil rights. He believed that the Russian comunists were trying to overthrow the US government. He arrested 16,000 SUSPICIOUS people total. Most of these people were releasd , but some were deported to Russia. This became known as the Palmer Raids. People began to dislike Palmer and he made the Espionage and Sedition acts in 1917 and 1918.

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