APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Red Scare

Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

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

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Sinking of the Lusitania

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.

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.

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

Progressivism

1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

Zimmermann telegram

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

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)

Harlem Renaissance

American imperialism

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

An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Jacob Riis

Niagra movement

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Great depression

Progressive's concerns

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism 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

American imperialism

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

Square deal

Direct election of senators

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.

The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Mass culture

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

Cash and Carry Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it

W.E.B. Dubois

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

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

Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Immigration Quotas

Harlem Renaissance

A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Spanish-American War

The great migration Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination

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