18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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.
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Crisis in American values
Palmer raids
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Ida Tarbell
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
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
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.
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Jacob Riis
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Meat inspection act
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
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
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.
Spanish-American War
Upton Sinclair
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
