Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Mass culture
The 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
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
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)
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Hoovervilles
Big stick diplomacy
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
18th amendment passed
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Espionage Act of 1917
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Palmer raids
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Lend-Lease Act
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Zimmermann telegram
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.
Red Scare
Booker T. Washington
