What happened to the U.S.S. Maine off of the coast of Cuba? *

An explosion sank the battleship U.S.S Maine, killing 266 of 354 crew members.

In his attempt to eliminate radicals from American society, Alexander Palmer b)ignored civil liberties. This was because Palmer believed it was key to do the raids as quickly as possible to eradicate communism and spies for the USSR. By raids, this means the Palmer Raids which he conducted, were supposed to capture, arrest and deport radical leftists. However, he completely ignored civil liberties when doing so.