Hoovervilles
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Flappers
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.
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Big stick diplomacy
Jacob Riis
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Secret ballot
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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.
Philippines
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Progressive's concerns
W.E.B. Dubois
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
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
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
