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
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
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
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Zimmermann telegram
Crisis in American values
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Flappers
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Progressive's concerns
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
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Progressivism
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Big stick diplomacy
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
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
The great migration
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
