American Liberty League

Examples of American Liberty League in the following topics:

• Challenges to the New Deal

  • The American Liberty League was a non-partisan organization formed in 1934 in opposition to the New Deal.
  • The League gathered Republicans, Democrats, and business leaders who opposed the New Deal's premise that the government not only could but should intervene in the economy.  
  • The organization's stated goal was "to defend the Constitution and defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by that Constitution."
  • The League engaged in campaigns, in which it aimed to educate the public about the legislative process.
  • After Roosevelt's 1936 victory, the League slowly dissolved, disappearing entirely in 1940.

• Political Critiques of the New Deal

  • The American Liberty League was a non-partisan organization formed in 1934 in opposition to the New Deal.
  • The League engaged in campaigns, in which it aimed to educate the public about the legislative process.
  • His activism attracted widespread accusations of promoting fascism and criticism of both Americans bishops and Vatican.
  • Plausible self-seekers and theoretical die-hards will tell you of the loss of individual liberty.
  • Have you lost any of your rights or liberty or constitutional freedom of action and choice?"

• Civil Liberties in Wartime

  • Congress used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to stamp out war opposition by curbing civil liberties.
  • One of the first victims of nearly every American war is the First Amendment, which guarantees civil liberties encompassing some of our most essential democratic freedoms.
  • Police and judicial action, private vigilante groups, and public hysteria compromised the civil liberties of many Americans who disagreed with Wilson's war policies.
  • Attorney General Gregory supported the work of the American Protective League (APL), which was one of the many patriotic associations that sprang up to support the war and, in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, identify anti-war organizations and those it deemed slackers, spies or draft dodgers.
  • Critique the Alien, Sedition, and Espionage Acts in terms of their effects on civil liberties.

• Americanization and Pluralism

  • She also worked as managing director of the North American Civil League for Immigrants and was involved in the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, which linked American advertisers and foreign-language newspapers for immigrants, and the Progressive National Committee, a political organizing group for Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
  • Once Americanized, workers would embrace American influences such as industrial ideals and be less likely to follow strike agitators or foreign propagandists.
  • Ultimately, Kellor said, Americanization would "unite foreign-born and native alike in enthusiastic loyalty to our national ideals of liberty and justice."
  • The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most significant private organizations working toward Americanization.
  • Describe the rationale behind the "Americanization" of immigrants by the National Americanization Committee and the Committee for Immigrants in America.

• American Imperialism

  • Polk, the concept of an American Empire was made a reality throughout the latter half of the 1800s.
  • American Imperialism is partly rooted in 'American exceptionalism,' the idea that the United States is different from other countries due to its specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy.
  • Pinpointing the actual beginning of American Imperialism is difficult.
  • The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established in the United States on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.
  • The League also argued that the Spanish-American War was a war of imperialism camouflaged as a war of liberation.

• The League of Nations

  • The league was the brainchild of U.S.
  • Representation at the league was often a problem.
  • Among the American public, Irish-Catholics and German-Americans were intensely opposed to the treaty, claiming it favored the British.
  • Harding, continued American opposition to the League of Nations.
  • The league cannot be labeled a failure, however, as it laid the groundwork for the United Nations, which replaced the League of Nations after World War II and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the league.

• Spectator Sports

  • In 1884, African American Moses Walker (and, briefly, his brother Welday) played in one of these, the American Association.
  • The National League's first successful counterpart, the American League, which evolved from the minor Western League, was established that year.
  • The Boston Americans of the American League defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.
  • The next year, the series was not held, as the National League champion New York Giants, under manager John McGraw, refused to recognize the major league status of the American League and its champion.
  • He was the first American sports hero to become a national celebrity and the first American athlete to earn over one million dollars.

• Immigration Restriction League

  • The Immigration Restriction League called for restrictions on immigration of people from certain parts of the world.
  • The League was founded in Boston and had branches in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
  • It felt that these immigrants were threatening what they saw as the American way of life and the high wage scale.
  • The League disbanded after the death of its president, Prescott F.
  • Portrait of George Edmunds, a founding member of the Immigration Restriction League

• Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty

  • The Daughters of Liberty were a Colonial American group, established around 1769, consisting of women who displayed their loyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods following the passing of the Townshend Acts.
  • Proving their commitment to "the cause of liberty and industry" they openly opposed the Tea Act.
  • The Daughters of Liberty also had a large influence during the war, although not as large an influence as the Sons of Liberty.
  • In the countryside, while Patriots supported the non-importation movements of 1765 and 1769, the Daughters of Liberty continued to support American resistance.
  • Nonconsumption agreements were protests organized by American colonists in 1774 in opposition to new import duties that were placed on the colonists by Charles Townshend, known as the Townshend Acts.

• The Wilson Administration

  • A complex business-government partnership that to this day dominates the financial world, the Federal Reserve System played a major role in financing the Allied and American war efforts during the two World Wars.
  • On the home front in 1917, he began the first U.S. draft since the American Civil War, borrowed billions of dollars in funding through the newly established Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Bonds, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union cooperation, supervised agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, took control of the railroads, and suppressed anti-war movements.
  • He attended the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to help create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, with special attention on establishing new nations from the remains of defunct empires.
  • For his sponsorship of the League of Nations, Wilson received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Yet the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and the U.S. never joined the League, with the Republicans winning in a landslide in 1920 mainly by denouncing Wilson's policies.