Great depression
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Sinking of the Lusitania
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
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)
The great migration
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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
W.E.B. Dubois
Immigration Quotas
Spanish-American War
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
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Progressive's concerns
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
Palmer raids
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Roosevelt 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
