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
Espionage Act of 1917
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Meat inspection act
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
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
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
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Progressive's concerns
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
Pure food and drug act
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
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)
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
The great migration
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
American imperialism
1920's economic boom
