Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Secret ballot
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
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Square deal
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Scopes Monkey trial
Big stick diplomacy
Crisis in American values
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.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Assembly line
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
Great depression
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Direct election of senators
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
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.
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Flappers
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
