Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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Mass culture
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
American imperialism
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Spanish-American War
Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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.
W.E.B. Dubois
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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
Harlem Renaissance
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
The great migration
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Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Progressive's concerns
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
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
1920's economic boom
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.
Zimmermann telegram
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)
Harlem Renaissance
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Flappers
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Espionage Act of 1917
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.