fourteen points
New deal
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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
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.
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
The great migration
Philippines
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
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
18th amendment passed
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
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Secret ballot
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
