APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Harlem Renaissance

Hoovervilles People 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 Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

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

Pure food and drug act Ensured 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 Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Flappers

Assembly line A 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 senators Gave 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 1918 Prohibited 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

Spanish-American War

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

Immigration Quotas Limited 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 act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

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

Direct election of senators Gave 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.

1920's politics A 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 values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

Square deal

Korematsu vs. U.S.

Harlem Renaissance Black 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 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)

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed 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 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

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

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