Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
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.
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.
Sinking of the Lusitania
fourteen points
Secret ballot
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Jacob Riis
Spanish-American War
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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.
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
Philippines
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Harlem Renaissance
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Flappers
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
