N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Increased nativism
Booker T. Washington
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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)
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
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.
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
1920's economic boom
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Red Scare
Spanish-American War
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
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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
