Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
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
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
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Muckrakers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Spanish-American War
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Mass culture
