APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

18th amendment passed

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)

W.E.B. Dubois

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

Cash and Carry

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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.

Square deal

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

Niagra movement

Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Mass culture

Immigration Quotas

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Flappers

Zimmermann telegram

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

1920's politics

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Increased nativism

Spanish-American War

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.

Philippines

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

N.A.A.C.P 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

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism

Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Square deal

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Lend-Lease Act

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 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

Meat inspection act

Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

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)

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

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

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

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.

The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

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.

Progressivism

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

People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

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