Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Immigration Quotas
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Progressive's concerns
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Direct election of senators
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Flappers
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Cash and Carry
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Assembly line
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Scopes Monkey trialIn Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Mass cultureThe 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Muckrakers
Progressivism
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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.
Square deal
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Increased nativism
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Mass cultureThe 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
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business