Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
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18th amendment passed
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
W.E.B. Dubois
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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Upton Sinclair
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Zimmermann telegram
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Red Scare
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1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.
Increased nativism
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Upton Sinclair
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Great depression
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Big stick diplomacy
Mass cultureThe 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
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Spanish-American War
New deal
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.