President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Red Scare
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
Zimmermann telegram
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
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Niagra movement
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 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.
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.
Hoovervilles
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Ida Tarbell
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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
Crisis in American values
Palmer raids
Unrestricted submarine warfare
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Mass culture
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Spanish-American War
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
Big stick diplomacy
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
