APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Red Scare

Pure food and drug act

Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

1920's economic boom

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

Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Zimmermann telegram Germany 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.

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Jacob Riis

Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Sedition act of 1918

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

A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

W.E.B. Dubois

Cash and Carry

A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

Spanish-American War

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

Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Upton Sinclair

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Ida Tarbell

The great migration

People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

Palmer raids

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Teddy 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

Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

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.

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

Red Scare

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Ida Tarbell

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

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

Muckrakers

Big stick diplomacy

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