Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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
18th amendment passed
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
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Niagra movement
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
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Cash and Carry
Immigration Quotas
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Zimmermann telegram
1920's politics
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Meat inspection act
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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.
N.A.A.C.P
Harlem Renaissance
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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
Ida Tarbell
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
