Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
W.E.B. Dubois
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Scopes Monkey trial
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Immigration Quotas
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Flappers
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Cash and Carry
Upton Sinclair
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Philippines
Teddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
Progressive's concerns
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
fourteen points
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
