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)
Niagra movement
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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
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
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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.
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Great depression
Upton Sinclair
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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.
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
