Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
New deal
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Big stick diplomacy
Sedition act of 1918
Pure food and drug act
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Crisis in American values
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Assembly lineA 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.
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Square deal
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
Harlem Renaissance
Niagra movement
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Mass culture
Hoovervilles
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Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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
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.
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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
Espionage Act of 1917
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Crisis in American values
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Progressivism
Korematsu vs. U.S.
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 Riis
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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
Direct election of senators
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.
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Muckrakers
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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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.
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts