During 1919 and 1920, the United States experienced a wave of terrorist bombings. This image shows the aftermath of a bomb, which had been placed on a horse-drawn cart and exploded on September 16, 1920, in front of J. P. Morgan Bank on Wall Street, killing 33 people and injuring 400 more. The belief that these bombings were perpetrated by foreign radicals led to the First Red Scare, the emergence of J. Edgar Hoover as a prominent figure in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Congress’s first successful attempts at passing comprehensive immigration reform.
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