The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Harlem Renaissance
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Unrestricted submarine warfare
W.E.B. Dubois
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Flappers
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Scopes Monkey trial
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
N.A.A.C.P
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Zimmermann telegram
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Philippines
Boost!
Boost!
Spanish-American War
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Sedition act of 1918
Great depression
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
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.
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Frozen!
1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Progressivism
Big stick diplomacy
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Square deal
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Frozen!
Korematsu vs. U.S.
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
Palmer raids
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)
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans