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.
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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.
Muckrakers
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Sedition act of 1918
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Mass culture
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Increased nativism
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Assembly line
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
