Discuss the impact of the Red Scare on American politics and civil liberties
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. In a pattern that became known as McCarthyism, mostly Republican conservatives blamed liberal Democrats in the administration for communist successes abroad.
2. Despite his general support for civil liberties, Truman helped set the tone for pursuing suspected traitors.
3. Truman established a federal employee loyalty program in March 1947.
4. Attorney General Tom Clark drew up a list of supposedly subversive organizations.
5. The federal courts ruled that words alone could be treasonable.
6. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigated Hollywood, the television industry, and universities as well as the executive branch of the U.S. government.
7. Senator Joseph McCarthy led the Republican effort to discredit Democrats as unpatriotic.
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In his exposé of the Minneapolis mayor, Lincoln Steffens discovered that the four-term mayor had gotten rich off of funds from all of the following entities EXCEPT
A) the state lottery. B) disorderly houses of prostitution. C) opium joints. D) unlicensed saloons.
Why did Teddy Roosevelt see those exposing corruption as 'muckrakers'?
What will be an ideal response?
President Taft stirred the anger of many progressives when he
a. signed the reactionary Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill. b. politically began to align himself with the Republican Old Guard in advance of the 1910 congressional elections. c. fired forest conservationist Gifford Pinchot from his administration. d. proved less aggressive at trust busting than Theodore Roosevelt. e. aligned himself with Republican senatorial reactionaries.
Why was the War Labor Board created?
A. to serve as an advisory council for labor unions in negotiating wages and conditions B. to create and enforce regulations forbidding industrial strikes C. to establish standards for industrial wages and working conditions D. to regulate production levels during World War II