Secret ballot
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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.
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
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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
Philippines
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
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
Meat inspection act
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
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)
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
