Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Sinking of the Lusitania
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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.
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
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
N.A.A.C.P
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Secret ballot
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
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
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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
Sedition act of 1918
Square deal
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
