Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
18th amendment passed
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Cash and Carry
Red Scare
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Scopes Monkey trial
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Direct election of senators
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Boost!
Boost!
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Booker T. Washington
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Square dealWhen coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Mass culture
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Upton Sinclair
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Progressivism
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Spanish-American War
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Boost!
Boost!
Big stick diplomacy
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Upton Sinclair
1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
New deal
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
1920's economic boom
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
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
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.
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Direct election of senators
Immigration Quotas
Booker T. Washington
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Philippines
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia