I know my rights
Charles Schenck
This war marked the turning point in U.S. foreign policy as the U.S. began intervening in Latin America
The Spanish American War
At the beginning of World War I, most Americans wanted to remain this
Neutral
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were targeted because this was their nationality
Italian
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the government can limit speech that posed a "clear and present danger" and gave this as an example of dangerous speech
Yelling fire in a crowded movie theater.
Journalists used this style of journalism to urge people to support U.S. war against Spain
Yellow Journalism
This message sent from the German government to the ambassador to Mexico urged the Mexican government to ally with Germany in World War I
The Zimmerman Telegram
The time period of federal government crackdown against radicals became known as this
The First Red Scare
What did the Sedition Act outlaw
Any anti-government speech
The United States shifted from a policy of isolationism to this after the Spanish American war
Interventionism
Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and sank this ship, which added to the tensions between the United States and Germany
The Lusitania
This event in Europe put fear into many in the U.S. government and businesses that a similar revolution could happen in the United States
The Russian Revolution / The Bolshevik Revolution
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to round up these people
Suspected radicals (communists and anarchists) immigrant groups
President Roosevelt famously threatened Latin American countries with military power if their investments were put in danger
The Big Stick
Describe why the Senate rejected President Wilson's proposal to enter the League of Nations
They were fearful that it would drag them into another European war
Americanization schools were examples of attempts by the government to force immigrants to learn English and adopt American customs, a process known as this
Assimilation
Race Riots took place in the summer of this year in cities across the country
1919 (the Red Summer)
White mobs attacked black neighborhoods who they claimed stole jobs
Name the territories that the United States claimed from Spain after the Spanish American War
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines
Describe how the Senate's rejection of the United States entering the League of Nations is an example of checks and balances.
The president does not have all of the power. Congress retains the right to make treaties.
This movie celebrated the Ku Klux Klan, claiming that they protected the American South from oppression by the North after the Civil War
Birth of a Nation