APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Philippines 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

Booker T. Washington

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

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Crisis in American values

Square deal

Increased nativism

Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Jacob Riis

Sinking of the Lusitania

Spanish-American War

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.

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

18th amendment passed

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.

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

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.

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

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Big stick diplomacy

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

Harlem Renaissance 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

American imperialism

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Philippines

A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Progressivism

Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Ida Tarbell

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Booker T. Washington

Spanish-American War

On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs

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

Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

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.

Harlem Renaissance

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Assembly line

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.

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

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

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