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As we saw last week, the 1920s was a conservative decade in U.S. history. For one thing, the government took an isolationist approach to foreign policy – we refused, for example, to join the League of Nations (the brainchild of progressive president Woodrow Wilson).

Government leaders were convinced that we would never again participate in a conflict in which we did not have a “vital” or direct interest. We even destroyed some of the tanks and ships that we had built during the Great War (which would later be called World War I).

Moreover, the government enacted strict immigration laws designe...