President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Mass culture
1920's politics
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
Scopes Monkey trial
In 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.
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Secret ballot
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Spanish-American War
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
The great migration
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Zimmermann telegram
fourteen points
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
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
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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
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
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Sinking of the Lusitania
