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
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Meat inspection act
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Immigration Quotas
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Spanish-American War
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Increased nativism
Niagra movement
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
New deal
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Palmer raids
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
