Philippines
Jacob Riis
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
Upton Sinclair
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Progressive's concerns
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
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
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
New deal
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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)
Progressivism
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Scopes Monkey trial
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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.
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Mass culture
The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
