APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Progressivism

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

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

Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

Zimmermann telegram

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

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

18th amendment passed

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

Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

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.

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

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Spanish-American War

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Flappers

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

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

Ida Tarbell

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

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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

Booker T. Washington

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

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

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

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.

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

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

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.

1920's politics

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

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

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

Philippines

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

American imperialism 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

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)

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

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

Lend-Lease Act

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

Flappers

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