Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Cash and Carry
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
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Spanish-American War
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.
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
Big stick diplomacy
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
New deal
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)
Led 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 privilege
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Zimmermann telegram
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
