Give Me Liberty Chapter 19 Vocab

"Liberal Internationalism"

A perspective that seeks to transform international relations to emphasize peace, individual freedom, and prosperity, and to replicate domestic models of liberal democracy at the international level

Tulsa Riot of 1921

A race riot that occurred in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 left homeless after a white mob burned an all-black section of the city to the ground

Flu Epidemic

A worldwide flu epidemic in 1919 that killed between 20 and 40 million people, including 700,000 Americans

Roosevelt Corollary

Added onto Monroe Doctrine by Roosevelt, said that the U.S. should have the ability to be an "International Police Power" in western hemisphere

Selective Service Act

Created in May of 1917. Required 24 million men to register for draft. Grew army from 120,000 to 5 million

Panama Canal Zone

Done by Roosevelt, it was an area between Panama and Columbia that was separated to build a canal linking the Atlanta and Pacific Oceans

Red Scare of 1919-1920

Fear among many Americans after WWI of Communists in particular and noncitizens in general, a reaction to the Russian Revolution, mail bombs, strikes and riots

Espionage Act

First time since 1798 that the government passed laws restricting freedom of speech. Created in 1917 prohibiting people from spying and interfering with draft and making false statements that could impede military success

Garveyites

Followers of Marcus Garvey, for whom freedom meant national self-determination

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Founded in 1910, this civil rights organization brought lawsuits against discriminatory practices and published the Crisis, a journal edited by African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois

"Moral Imperialism"

Idea by Woodrow Wilson. Said that American Economic Influence serves higher purpose than profit. Believed that Americans were meant to carry liberty and justice. Led to more military interventions in Latin America than any President before or after

Sedition Act

In 1918, the Sedition Act made it a crime to make spoken or printed statements that intended to cast "contempt, scorn, or disrepute" on the "form of government" or that advocated interference with the war effort

Fourteen Points

Issued by Wilson in 1918 saying that the American War Aims and their vision of a new international order. Believed in self-determination for all nations, freedom of the seas, free trade, open democracy and the creation of the League of Nations

Great Migration

Large-scale migration of southern blacks during and after WWI to the North where jobs had become available during the labor shortage of the war years

War Industries Board

Led by Bernard Barnuch. Was a board that regulated and presided over all elements of war. Established standards for everything from tires to shoe colors

Dollar Diplomacy

Taft's foreign policy. Idea was to invest in economies and give loans to countries to strengthen relationship and give U.S. power and money. Included Honduras, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic and Liberia

Zimmerman Telegram

Telegram intercepted and made public by the British people. Telegram from Arthur Zimmerman of Germany to Mexico saying that Mexico should help Germany attack the U.S. and they could get back land lost in Mexican War. Led to Wilson declaring war.

Versailles Treaty

Treaty signed at peace conference after WWI which established Wilson's version of an international regulating body, redrew parts of Europe and Middle Eat and assigned economically crippling war reparations to Germany, but failed to incorporate all of Wilson's 14 Points

Lusitania

British ship carrying large amounts of arms and 124 Americans that was sunk by the Germans causing all the Americans to die