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
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
fourteen points
Flappers
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.
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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
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.
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Secret ballot
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
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
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Jacob Riis
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
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
