When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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.
Red Scare
W.E.B. Dubois
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
1920's economic boom
Crisis in American values
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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
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
Spanish-American War
