New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Cash and Carry
Big stick diplomacy
Crisis in American values
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
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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
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.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Lend-Lease Act
Assembly line
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
