Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Red Scare
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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.
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Mass culture
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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.
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
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
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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
N.A.A.C.P
Hoovervilles
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.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Progressivism
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)
Progressive's concerns
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Booker T. Washington
Immigration Quotas
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
