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In this year, vigilante American Legion members lynched Wesley Everest after a Veterans Day parade in Centralia, Washington. The press nicknamed the USAT Buford an “ark” for deporting hundreds at the end of this year. Mayor Ole Hanson embarked on a national speaking (15[1])tour after cracking down on this year’s Seattle General Strike. In this year, Mother Earth journal activists Alexander Berkman and Emma (*) Goldman were deported and the Galleanists carried out an anarchist mail bomb campaign that nearly (10[1])killed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. During this year’s start, Henry Cabot Lodge tanked Congress’s ratification of a treaty agreed to by the “Big Four” powers. For 10 points, name this year in which the First Red Scare broke out, one year after the Treaty of (10[1])Versailles was signed. ■END■

ANSWER: 1919 (The Buford was nicknamed the “Soviet Ark.”)
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