At the heart of the Red Scare was the conscription law of May 18, 1917, which was put during World War I in order for the armed forces to be able to conscript more Americans. This caused many problems in the recollection of soldiers for the war. For one to claim that status, one had to be a member of a "well-recognized" religious organization which forbade their members to participation in war. As a result of such unyielding legislation, 20,000 conscientious objectors were inducted into the armed forces. Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 of these, 450 went to prison. However, these numbers are small in comparison with the 170,000 draft dodgers and 2,810,296

ambitions. Also he may have been considered as a target of the bombings, his actions may have been out of fear, but his attitude had no true reason.

draft, but the party was the point of opposition. These people became targets for attack by

Objectors were targeted in the Red Scare after the war. They were condemned as cowards, pro-German socialists, also they were also accused of spreading propaganda throughout the United States. Many organizations stood up for the rights of the objectors. One was the National Civil Liberties Bureau, which would later be renamed the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU gained a reputation for helping people with liberal cases who were too poor to pay for their own representation in court.

As dangerous as these people appeared to be, they were in fact only one-thousandth of one percent of the voting American public. Even the two parties who made up this percentage of voters were confused with corruption and dissent. After the war formally ended in 1918, all the groups which opposed the war hit the roof. They were destroying the peace and security of the American nation. The attacks were now focused on the Wobblies and the Socialists, not anymore on the objectors. They were targeted by the use of the Espionage Act of 1918. This act penalized anyone who obstructed the operation of the armed forces, or displayed disloyalty within the forces. The Justice Department convicted more than 1000 people. Surely among this number were a large number of Socialists and Wobblies.

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